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Occupy Wall Street protesters march down Wall Street by the New York Stock Exchange in New York's financial district September 17, 2013. The Occupy Wall Street movement celebrates thier second anniversary on September 17.

Some liberals are expressing regret over the oppressive political correctness regimes that liberals have implemented on college campuses and elsewhere.

The liberal activism of her college years was anti-intellectual, "vaguely cultish" and "the darkest chapter of my life," a self-described "queer activist" writing under the pseudonym Aurora Dagny wrote for The McGill Dailyin November.

Dagny is among a number of recent liberal voices decrying the current liberal trend of stifling speech.

Writing about her school's new sexual harassment policy last month for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Laura Kipnis, a professor in the department of radio, television, and film at Northwestern University, wrote: "The new codes sweeping American campuses aren't just a striking abridgment of everyone's freedom, they're also intellectually embarrassing. Sexual paranoia reigns; students are trauma cases waiting to happen. If you wanted to produce a pacified, cowering citizenry, this would be the method. And in that sense, we're all the victims."

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An Occupy Wall Street protestor flashes a peace sign during a march on Broadway past a Chase bank in New York's financial district September 17, 2013. The Occupy Wall Street movement celebrates their second anniversary on September 17.

Liberal columnist Michelle Goldberg wrote about reactions to Kipnis' articlefor The Nation. Students are protesting the article, accusing Kipnis of violent, "inflammatory" and "terrifying" ideas, and calling for administrators to punish her.

"This atmosphere is intellectually stifling," Goldberg wrote.

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Liberals Became Dark, Cultish, Intellectually Stifling, Dissident Liberals Complain