...and it has nothing to do with the professor who was vilified for using a Chinese word that sounds like an English derogatory epithet. In a normal academic environment, the Dean of the Business School would now be relieved of his duties for violating the academic freedom of one of his instructors and for poor judgment, and the students who leveled the frivolous complaint would be identified and disciplined. None of this will happen, but at least the Dean has been humiliated internationally for his stupidity.
I think it's time to recognize that Nietzsche had correctly diagnosed what we are witnessing in these displays, in his discussion of the "tarantulas" in Thus Spoke Zarathustra:
"That the world be filled with the storms of our revenge, that is what we call justice"--thus they [the tarantulas] speak to each other.
"We will wreak vengeance and abuse on all those whose equals we are not"--thus do the Tarantula-hearts vow.
"And 'will to equality'--that should henceforth be the name of virtue; and against all that have power, we want to raise our clamor!"
You preachers of equality, the tyrannical madness of impotence cries out from you for "equality": your secret desire to be tyrants is wrapped up in virtuous words!
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