GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Politically progressive academics love to rant, particularly when it comes to racial issues.

When they hear about alleged acts of racial insensitivity, they are sometimes quick to condemn the white devils and declare their campuses to be toxic cauldrons of racist sentiment.

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Sometimes these professors even jump into the fray before they know all the facts, or consider the possibility that the incidents were created by anti-racist activists who needed something to spark a protest. That sort of thing has occurred on numerous campuses around the nation.

One such professor is Joseph Kuilema, who teaches social work at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

In November a scandal broke out at Calvin when several swastikas and the words “white power” were inscribed in the snow on several parked cars. The public has not been privy to the story behind the snow messages.

As DailyCaller.com wrote, “Two students confessed to the deeds, but their names, motivations and punishments haven’t been revealed, leaving open the possibility the stunt was a hoax or a poorly conceived prank rather than an act of hate.”

But that uncertainty didn’t deter Kuilema from declaring Calvin College a bubbling cauldron of racists who are in pathetic denial of their “white privilege.”

“What occurred was not an isolated incident, a freak occurrence in an otherwise loving and inclusive community,” Kuilema wrote in an editorial published by Chimes, the campus newspaper. “While few members of this community openly espouse white supremacy, many members of our community continue to deny white privilege. It must be clearly stated that those who deny white privilege functionally believe in white supremacy, whether they have the courage to write it on a car or not.

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“As a white person, you can choose to believe the game is fair. You can choose to believe that you have no privilege. You can see what happened on November 22 as the splinter in the eye of two misguided students. But if you do so, you ignore the plank. If the game is fair you are assuming that white people are simply better at it. You are assuming that while racism is ugly, it has no real power; it doesn’t hold anyone back. You are assuming white supremacy.”

Wow. All of that over a few troubling words and symbols written in snow on a few cars, when the public has no idea exactly who wrote them or why.

It too many instances, progressive activists on campuses around the nation have planted racist messages themselves, so they have something to protest.

At Vassar College in 2013, members of a student group called the “Bias Incident Response Team” were caught leaving written and spray-painted racist messages in dormitories, according to various news sources. Of course they were busy investigating those messages when they were exposed as the authors.

In 2013 at Oberlin College, two liberal activists, including one who belongs to a group called “White Allies Against Structural Racism,” were caught publishing and discreetly distributing a flier filled with all sorts of racial venom, which caused campus-wide protests.

Maybe some college students are just like their progressive professors. They love to rant, even when they are not certain there is anything to rant about.