Another academic group debates holding a conference in Arizona, using terms like "self-fornicate"

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

A national organization devoted to medieval studies is facing a backlash from some of its members over its decision to go ahead with a conference next April in Arizona, where a controversial immigration law enacted this year has drawn sharp criticism from many academics.

Some members of the Medieval Academy of America wrote an open letter this month to the organization assailing its decision to keep the conference in Tempe, Ariz., despite previous complaints in May.

The latest group, whose number isn’t specified in the story, is leaving the organization in protest.

The best part of the story are the comments, in which an anti-immigrant guy not too up on the actual issues crosses swords with one of the academics, resulting in remarks like:

A couple of suggestions to you, genius. 1. A not so leisurely survey of the supremacy clause of the US Constitution 2. Self-fornicate.

To which the right-wing guys says:

Now go start another doctorate in something equally as relevant like…“Chicano studies”.

Later on in the discussion, a different commenter makes this hard-to-argue-with point:

Medieval Studies (if the convention includes papers on Medieval Thought) seems like an appropriate convention for Arizona. Where else would you find such backward thought?

And later on, one poster corrects another’s German grammar.