As an undergraduate at Oberlin College, many years ago, I had the opportunity to observe the "thought" processes of the Left in Academia, and came to understand two vital things for understanding what has been going on:
1. The "philosophy" of the Academic Left is not grounded on reality, but is drawn from an airborne wish list.
2. Having no grounded premises, any verbal contrivance or rationalization to "support," the things wished for, is accepted without actual analysis.
The silly diatribes quote here, would, sadly, be considered reasoned analysis, on most campuses in what education in America has now devolved to.