Incoming Boston University professor Saida Grundy — last seen tweeting that white males are a “problem population” — is back in the news again after apparently taunting a white rape victim in a series of Facebook posts. Fox has the story (h/t Instapundit):

The woman who identified herself as Grundy posted the comments after Chamberlin took issue with a controversial article on race that the Facebook thread had linked to.
“I LITERALLY cry and lose sleep over this,” Chamberlin wrote, adding she had been raped as a child and felt that: “what this article did was tell me that I’m not aloud (sic) to ask for help… Because I am a WHITE woman… So when I read this article… you do understand what that does to me, right? It kills me…”
The woman, who identified herself as Sai Grundy in the Feb. 25 thread and uses the same photo the professor uses on tweets she acknowledged last week, responded by making fun of the victim’s crying.
“’I literally cry’…. While we literally die,” she said before adding, “try this article. A white woman explaining this issue to other white women… who manages NOT to cry while doing it!”
Chamberlin, the rape survivor, responded: “No really. I got it. You can take your claws out, thanks.”
To which Grundy exploded:
“^^THIS IS THE S**T I AM TALKING ABOUT. WHY DO YOU GET TO PLAY THE VICTIM EVERY TIME PEOPLE OF COLOR AND OUR ALLIES WANT TO POINT OUT RACISM. my CLAWS?? Do you see how you just took an issue that WASNT about you, MADE it about you, and NOW want to play the victim when I take the time to explain to you some s**t that is literally $82,000 below my pay grade? And then you promote your #whitegirltears like that’s some badge you get to wear… YOU BENEFIT FROM RACISM. WE’RE EXPLAINING THAT TO YOU and you’re vilifying my act of intellectual altruism by saying i stuck my “claws” into you?”

That’s an impressive combination of rage, arrogance, and mindless identity politics, right there. And if that is, in fact, Professor Grundy, B.U. students will get all of that for the low, low price of roughly $65,000 per year. I have three quick thoughts.

First, while Grundy’s social media indiscretions are remarkable, her “rage” is relatively standard for the race/class/sexuality-obsessed professor. Enjoying job security, salaries, and travel opportunities that most Americans can only dream about, they rage against injustices they’ve never endured, fueling their anger on perceived “microaggressions.”

Second, the “scholarship” that “earns” these professors their tenure-track positions is often little more than a series of jargon-filled stream of consciousness screeds that cite other jargon-filled stream of consciousness screeds.

Third, these “scholars” tend to thrive in large part through ideological intimidation. One great way to be labeled a racist is to criticize their work. The path of least resistance isn’t just to leave them alone but to hire them in ever-increasing numbers — and then hope and pray that’s enough to avoid their wrath.

The optimistic part of me says that someday — eventually — a critical mass of students and parents will wake up, vote with their feet, and reform the academy through sheer market pressure. The realistic part of me realizes that “someday” is likely to be “never,” and it’s more likely that parents and students will continue to pay outrageous prices for sub-intellectual indoctrination — because, after all, the résumé gods demand their sacrifice.