*sigh* Are you all really this fucking obtuse? Do none of you see how utterly wrong this situation is?

This woman is a professor. A professor. At one of the top schools in the country. The university condemned her (but didn’t fire her or take any other kind of action) for making several racist and racially-charged tweets targeting white people and her white students, including a time where she shamelessly ridiculed a white rape victim and told her that her problems were less important because “while you literally cry, we literally die” and other disturbing and terrible comments.

This woman is an adult. She is an adult in a position of power and she reacts to things by acting like a fucking child, playing victim (she’s got a victimization complex the size of New Jersey) and mocking rape victims. She was ridiculously unprofessional and engaged in social media with conduct more befitting of an ignorant fifteen year old high school freshman than a professor at a prestigous university.

Even disregarding that, her tweets were both unprofessional and ignorant as all hell. At the end of April, after a multitweet conversation about the uniqueness of European slavery, Grundy allegedly wrote, “in other words, deal with your white sh*t [sic], white people. Slavery is a *YALL* thing.” This is both provably untrue and RIDICULOUSLY ignorant. And this woman claims to be a Sociology and African Studies professor. Good thing she doesn’t claim to be a history professor, because she hopefully would have been fired on the spot for such an egregious and blatant lie.

So, to sum up: professor makes racist comments and acts unprofessionally. School condemns comments, and people question her fairness as a professor and educational professional. School takes no further action and allows her to continue teaching. People on the internet become outraged because “she’s just tellin’ the truth” and because tumblr/the internet population is conditioned to think that racism is only bad and/or harmful when it’s against black people. And before someone starts with me, this is not about a pity party for white men; it’s about blatant racism and sexism and someone who is quite public and open about their racist and sexist views and how the university they work at implicitly condones their views.