After writing her poorly-conceived, badly-written, and much-maligned blog post about Black Studies programs, Naomi Shaefer Riley was fired from the Chronicle of Higher Education. In response, she has written an editorial for the Wall Street Journal. It’s pretty predictably butthurt, tone-deaf, and self-pitying. But it’s also so, so dumb. To wit:

My longtime familiarity with the absurdities of higher education did not, I confess, prepare me for this most absurd of results. The content of my post, after all, is hardly shocking; the same thing could have been written 30 years ago. And perhaps that’s the most depressing part of all this. Despite the real social and economic advancement that has been made by blacks in this country, the American faculty is still stuck in the 1960s.

Setting aside the fallacy that scholars are still writing about the same topics that were popular more than 30 years ago, it’s pretty rich that she’s openly and uncritically spouting 30 year-old hate — the very hate, in fact, that Black Studies departments were founded to combat. Put another way, and using her own words against her: “Despite the real social and economic advancement that has been made by blacks in this country, Naomi Shaefer Riley is still stuck in the 1960s.”