God forbid.

Malkin’s evidence: A student who hasn’t taken the class, and this:

For McCarthy, it seems Peace Studies is not just a cause; it is a crusade.

“Unless we teach them peace, someone else will teach them violence,” he said.

Oh my. Subversive indeed. As are, from the textbook which Malkin links to derisively, the teachings of Gandhi, King, and Einstein.

Einstein:

We must begin to inoculate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. … I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

Inoculating our children against militarism. Strikes fear in your heart, doesn’t it, Michelle?

See how easy it would be? That’s all you have to say: It’s not ricin.

You had enough time on your hands to post nearly a dozen links on the topic while it was breaking, to track down pictures, do research on the history of ricin in the United States, even to admit when more tests are needed…

…so why no time to admit that the whole thing was a false alarm?

Update:

“I guess you can say I was just weirded out,” said Kelly Heinbaugh, a freshman kinesiology major. “It seemed out of place … I figured I’d rather be safe than sorry.”

I have no problem with the “better safe than sorry” argument, especially given the level of hysteria the average American has been whipped into by people like Malkin, but what’s out of place, exactly, about a chunky white powder in a laundry room, or in a roll of quarters which presumably has spent time in and around a laundry room?

Update 2: One story calls the powder “whitish-brown”, which certainly doesn’t sound like detergent. While the update above was mostly snark anyway, I’ll officially retract the suggestion that the powder shouldn’t have looked out of place.

See how easy that was?