I lived in Huntsville for many years and I doubt there’s much to any political content to this. UAH is one of the least PC universities around; mainly geeks, nerds, Asian students, tech workers going to school at night, etc. It seems to me it’s more about Ms. Bishop crossing over the thin line between genius and madness.
You wonder if it’s something in the water. Huntsville is this dull, high tech town where they have a hard time keeping young people because its so boring, but every now and then there are explosions of violence. A couple weeks ago in the suburbs, a 13 year old wannabe gangsta’ killed another kid in the middle school hallway.
When we were there a kid from an affluent family killed mom and dad Lizzie Borden style, another wannabe gang banger AKA “Doughboy” killed 5 teenagers execution style, in my neighborhood a little thug pulled a tech nine in a neighborhood spat and took out a father anmd two sons. A high school basketball star said hello to a girl in TGI Fridays. Her boyfriend gunned down him and two companions. These come to mind with out a lot of thought.
I think it’s Yeats description of the world in “The Second Coming”,

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
The blood dimmed tide is loosed, everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity”

Society is coming apart at the seams and it will play out strange.