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On Saturday night, University of North Carolina student Liz Hawryluk asked the DJ at a local haunt, Fitzgerald's Irish Pub, to stop playing Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," because it "triggers" victims of sexual assault. After Hawryluk spoke out about the incident on social media, Fitzgerald's fired the DJ.

Hawryluk told Jenny Surane at The Daily Tarheel that after she complained to the DJ about the song, she was asked by management to leave the bar. "Fundamentally, all I was aiming to do is to create a safe space in the Carolina community," she explains. "In a lot of ways, violent or graphic images that allude to sexual violence are triggers."

After she left the bar, Hawryluk "took to her Facebook" to complain, and some sympathetic students posted an "open letter" to Fitzgerald's manager Kyle Bartosiewicz in a UNC online magazine, The Siren. Fitzgerald's spokeswoman Lauren Shoaf then issued an apology and assured the public that the offending DJ would never spin at Fitzgerald's again.

Conservatives (and the "common men" of Barstool Sports) have already started complaining about Hawryluk's behavior and the bar's decision to fire the DJ. That matters, unfortunately, because their valid criticism of Hawryluk's actions threaten the work of other more serious activists who are trying to reduce the number of rapes on college campuses across the country.