Hugh Segal is the individual who should lose his job for being a cowardly nincompoop, especially his overly self serving -- fawning -- pandering to the SJW PC crowd. Just because younger scholars are not familiar with his works, doesn't give them licence to be so outraged and take context out of the equation. 

These are students, grad students at that in the hallowed halls of academia, a history department no less. If irony is lost on these people, then truly we are turning our backs on the enlightenment....dark ages and witch hunts here we come.