So, has anyone actually contacted the University of Texas at Austin, to question why they have a racist professor on their payroll?
When they respond with confusion, don’t explain, but then ask a follow-up, does the University of Texas at Austin endorse racism as an official policy?
By this point they should be thoroughly agitated and confused, so should be hit with a third question, if someone at the University of Texas at Austin has intentionally and knowingly hired a racist professor, does this now reflect their academic hiring policies?
Hopefully, they will be shaking in their boots by the time you let slip that the racist professor is in the journalism department. Since they probably haven’t seen the news story, let the witch hunt begin!
Imagine several upset administrators descending on the journalism department, demanding to know who the racist professor is, who hired him, and most importantly, to snarl at those in a position of authority for having a racist professor “under their nose”, who has created an “incident”.
A great secret of academia is that their spats are particularly nasty, *precisely* because the stakes are so small. Professors are always on the look out for when one of their number stumbles, ready to pick him to death like a flock of chickens kills one of their number who looks different.
Good observation. I'd extend that to other work environments where the work product is intangible rather than tangible.