I’m sure this remark is being taken out of context.
Besides, ordinary people can’t understand the way academics use language.
Oh hell yeah, just like those climategate emails, this is just “some locker room talk amongst academics” and “never was intended for the public eye”. Because, you know, like we’re not smart enough to understand the “nuance”, and all...
We’re the kind of folks, after all, that get “stuk in Irak”