The left is ALL about thought crime.
That’s the sum total of it, really.
Totalitarianism is its own means and end.
Once you can prosecute (and punish) people for what they believe or think, everything else is a moot point.
This goes for the right too, by the way ... but at present the left is making more headway and much more quickly.
“We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?” - Joseph Stalin.
Thought crime and gun control go hand in hand for the left, as their sacred prophet, Stalin, proclaimed.
And Emory as a leftist bastion: Isn’t that the home of the Carter Center? Enough said.