If America were everything it should be, free speech would be thriving on college campuses. Instead, politically correct administrators and professors across the country stifle speech regularly.

A case in point: Marquette University forced a student to remove a quote by newspaper humor columnist Dave Barry from his door. What subversive, radical statement did Barry make?

As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.

It’s clear from that quote that Barry is a racist redneck and part of the angry mob that has been fomenting rebellion across the land.

No wonder Marquette felt compelled to ban his quote! His crime was almost as heinous as the insensitivity Rutgers University showed to all Irishmen by serving Lucky Charms, a sugary cereal that embraces stereotypes.

But seriously, here’s what Barry had to say when the Foundation for Individual Rights asked his thoughts about his column being banned by Marquette:

I just don’t know what has happened to the universities. … The least-free area of thought left in the United States seems to be the universities. The one place where you’d think free thought and free speech and conflict of ideas would be most encouraged has somehow become the most restricted and constricted and just constipated, intellectually constipated, area of American life.

Watch the whole FIRE interview with Barry — and kudos to him for taking a break from humor writing to defend free speech in America: