You know, after making it clear that hate speech would not be tolerated and would be dealt with harshly when they thought it came from conservatives, will they impose the same penalty upon the actual perps?

A national conservative group yesterday called on George Washington University to expel students who admitted that they targeted the group in a hoax that covered the campus with hundreds of anti-Muslim posters.

"Vicious personal attacks levied on students are intolerable and should not go unpunished," Ron Robinson, president of the Young America"s Foundation, told university President Steven Knapp.

In a letter obtained by The Washington Times, Mr. Robinson cited a statement by Student Association Executive Vice President Brand Kroeger, who said he "would support expulsion" of students responsible for distributing the "heinous" posters.

After the browbeating of the Young America’s Foundation chapter leaders and demanding that they voluntarily limit their own speech activities in light of the posters “as a sign of good faith”, the GWU officials need to make sure that little clique of left-wing and Islamist students seeking to censor the conservative organization receives precisely the punishment that the administration had in mind for the victims of this attack. After all, this was hate speech against both Muslims and conservatives – and unless GWU wishes to be shown to be an intellectually and morally vacant cesspool of liberalism, they need to stand by their publicly declared standards.

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