As the aphorism goes, “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” Over at the Federalist, D.C. McAllister shows how that road was paved at UNC-Chapel Hill. She takes on the do-gooders in the African and Afro-American Studies Department who engaged in academic fraud to “protect” athletes from low-income neighborhoods, tough family environments, and weak K-12 schools.

“At the core of this scandal is the failure of liberal compassion in which struggling students are treated with disrespect under the guise of sympathy by giving them academic freebies instead of challenging them to succeed on their own merit,” she writes. “Anyone…who put hope in the lies and deception of liberal compassion should feel a deep and abiding guilt for robbing people of their dignity, disrespecting them by not believing in their ability to succeed, enslaving them to the lying schemes of sympathetic benefactors, and for stealing their self-respect in order to bolster others’ pathetic egos.”

McAllister has the right message, but the people who need to absorb it won’t. Most people have an unyielding belief in the rightness of their views, and they are even more obdurate when they believe that their beliefs are morally supreme.