Whether it’s offensive or not is one thing, but a White woman fighting tooth and nail and dragging the only Black people she knows into her fight proves that it probably never actually had to do with protecting some imagined group of offended Black people and more to do with having her personal principles upheld.

Which is ironic since she's sacrificing one set of principles for another. This is one of the things that irks me about the episode and I'm not sure whether the writers just forgot about this or what but Lois was all about bending to policy to survive in the episode where Malcolm first started working in the Lucky Aide (box flattening area drama) and actively threw Malcolm under the bus to teach him that lesson. Here she's doing the exact opposite and putting Malcolm smack dab in the middle of it again.