The incident led Bennett College President Johnnetta Cole, an Emory emerita anthropology professor and former Spelman College president, to write a letter to the department urging it to develop a plan "for substantially increasing the number of graduate students and faculty of color."It's all about jobs. The liberals sit around waiting for any slip so they can try to pry more dollars for their allies. Once you see something like that, you know that "principle" no longer has anything to do with it.
I might add that the professor who used the phrase indeed was in error and needs to be a lot more circumspect with her choice of phrases.
There is little difference between what will happen to this professor and happened to dissidents in the Soviet Union. In the USSR you would be hauled off to prison if someone overheard you say something forbidden. Here she will lose her job and be blacklisted. In a few years I predict the difference in treatment will be negligible.