Happens All The Time

Excerpted from today's Guardian:

• 'She told the university that graduate students on a literature course “should reasonably be expected to be able to discuss painful or offensive language and the various implications of altering the words of an iconic writer”. As the meeting ended, she was given the university’s guidelines for dealing with issues of discrimination and told to familiarise herself with them.
  
  'But Sheck told the Guardian that the university is proceeding with an investigation despite its regulations stating that complaints of discrimination must be lodged within 60 days of the incident, which had passed by the time the complaint was made against her.
  
  '“I have been left completely in the dark with the accusations against me still actively in place, and classes starting in two weeks,” she said. “Having taught at the New School with an impeccable record and consistently stellar student evaluations of my classes for nearly 20 years, this drawn-out approach appears to many as an unnecessarily callous and insensitive treatment of a devoted and long time faculty member.”'

It's true though, eh? Doesn't matter who you are, what you teach or where: if the correctly-phrased, en vogue, politically and culturally charged accusation is lobbed at you in the right way by the right people, good luck with that. No one is immune--not even, apparently, full-ass English profs at the New School.  Pretty much close to a purge what's happening these days. 

Yes, Feargal, I fear they could even come for you, the world is that fucked up. Feargal Sharkey, everybody! Show some respect.