@tonymom I was in Pakistan as a CIA operative, front line so the FBI didn’t have to deal with it on US soil. Profs can mouth off about what they don’t know. Sometimes, that makes the jokes even funnier. Ignorance is bliss. It wouldn’t have made my job harder.
@TheAtlantic I work in the operating room now. Inappropriate conversation runs deep. If people reported inappropriate conversations, only the patients would be left in the operating room and many of them would be gone too. It’s not that the conversations are always acceptable, you just quickly ignore conversations.
The assumption here is that people either believe that the professor is a bigot or it could be that he is cleverly poking fun at a political taboo that requires the listener to put that together. I don’t know we can say either way. But I get the sense that people don’t want him to say anything perceived to be offensive. Well, get your list out because the coddled are really sensitive.