A few nights before commencement, a visiting black student was fatally stabbed on the campus of University of Maryland in College Park. The alleged murderer, a Maryland student, was intoxicated. He is a suspected—though according to investigations, not confirmed—white supremacist. The murder was horrific, and its possible racial motivation should not be swept under the rug.
The university’s response, however, has followed a predictable and disappointing pattern. A single vanishingly unlikely incident has been turned into an indictment of the entire campus and into a honeypot for the burgeoning ranks of mediocre administrators who are colonizing the higher education system.
Wallace Loh, the university president, penned an editorial in the Baltimore Sun, calling for censorship of “hate speech,” even though no racial slurs or other insults were part of the murder. Loh writes, “The First Amendment was intended as a shield to safeguard dissent against the government. However, those who denigrate people solely because of their race, faith, gender or sexual orientation argue that their hateful speech is permissible as free speech.”
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