The College of Liberal Arts and Implications

Something was implied. Therefore you should all be ashamed of yourselves and abandon all other concerns to tear your hair out over the dire threat of implication.

During this semester, the university at which I currently reside sent out a mass e-mail, notifying us that a short communication with "racist implications" was discovered. About a page of the usual social justice "diversity" rhetoric followed. Weeks later another wave of spam was sent out reassuring us that the administraion has tracked down the culprit, who will be punished by an internal committee. (Read: kangaroo court.) At no point are we told what was said or "implied" presumably for fear of breaking our darling little snowflake minds from sheer horror. There is no room for bigotry at our fine institution.

Meanwhile...
my department's faculty has dropped by a third in the past few years, with no replacements being hired
the library no longer gets access to one of the most impactful scientific journals
the library has reduced its collection by half a floor's worth of books
the <redacted> hall had to tear out half its water fountains for the taste coming up through the pipes
computers are increasingly adorned with post-it notes declaring a need of repairs, flapping in the air conditioning for semesters on end
we've quietly stopped receiving guest lecturers

No reassuring spam on any/all of that. But rest assured! The whole "implications" hubbub was preceded by another mass mail declaring the university's intent to hire several "diversity consultants" to address the dire threat of racial discomfort. Pardon my multicultural naivete, but are we poor Europeans and descendants thereof the only ones in need of a competent education? Do scions of noble Africa have cyborg implants installed at birth and therefore no need of functioning computers? Do South Americans have no use for books? Do Persians not need professors? Do mystical Koreans meditate <science> out of the air with no need for journals? Do Indians not need to drink water? Will your academic career be worth less for having your heritage insulted once or twice or for never having acquired competence in your chosen field? But never fear, the diversity consultants are here to save the day. This is the way the world ends, with a politically correct fart in the wind.

Let's see, what other completely unrelated events are eventing around here? Oh, yeah...
Earlier this year while leaving for home from the aforementioned fine institution, a random young black man talking on the phone ran up to me, stuck the phone in my face and yelled out "ay, why duntchoo tell us wut white pussy taste like?"
This was not surreptitiously implied by some anonymous subversive in the dead of night, but proudly shouted on the street in broad daylight. Do events like this have any... implications?

The question of whether political correctness has gone too far is a red herring. Look instead to the rot at its core. The continual selective enforcement perpetrated by moral guardians, holding only one side responsible for behaving like citizens of a polite society while applauding the misbehavior of nominal heroes and martyrs, is no more noble than any other bigotry throughout history. Worse yet, it's mainly used as a smokescreen to avoid addressing much more pressing concerns with universal effects.

So, you know what? That idiot shouting at me on the street? I don't want him tracked down; I don't want an entire administration wringing its hands and overcompensating for weeks and months on end for a social slight. I want them doing their damn jobs to keep the institution performing its primary duty to its students and to society at large, of training qualified professionals.