The moral preening continues over a Facebook posting attributed to UIS employee, Ann Gemberling.

The article "UIS community rallies against racism" in the Nov. 8 edition of the SJ-R, and the letter "A teachable moment at UIS" from Sister Beth Murphy captioned recounts the “horrors” inflicted upon the UIS community by people having fun with some harmless Halloween costumes.

Cheerleading this week’s rally was the president of the UIS student Democrats, Aislinn Diaz. She exclaims: “I just don’t want it (racism) on my campus.” She says this incident was “the first time I didn’t feel safe” on the UIS campus.

I have two questions: What makes Ms. Diaz believe UIS is her campus? And how is Ms. Diaz made to feel unsafe, by a harmless photo having nothing to do with her?

Hopefully, someday Ms. Diaz finds a job in the grievance industry where she is safely surrounded by fellow fools.

Judging by the UIS students’ protest signs, it seems likely that in the process of getting woke, they missed their chance of getting educated. Someday, these students will leave their bubble-wrapped UIS cocoon and enter a society that values freedom of expression over the soft tyranny of political correctness.

This event perfectly illustrates why academia is such a sucker for hate-crime hoaxes: Everyone wants to play the victim. Victim status is the currency leftists use to obtain political power; racism is the hate-crime du jour.

The UIS speech police owe the Gemberlings an apology for its own outrageous bullying behavior.

Gary Hetherington