I’m not surprised, nor should you be, Roger. When the healthy fear of crazy, revanchist people, to which all of us who remain sane are heir, combines with fashion, any sort of craven, arse-covering behavior can be expected from the minor intelligentia,* accompanied by justifications taken from Moral Philosophy 101 at a weak community college.

*Among “intellectuals,” Academic and scholarly Jesuits were once nothing like “minor,” but that was long ago.