SuperJews: Yep, that sounds very familiar. I have two rebbeim muvhakim, one charedi one MO. I’ll quote both of them.
The charedi one: Anyone two the right of me is a chnyock. Anyone to the left of me is a goy. Really? Come on! Are we 5 years old here? (IIRC, he was talking about golus during parshas b’chukosai)
The MO one: I don’t trifle with such nonsense. You want to talk lashon hara, do it at kiddush. (Someone in the chabura brought up some 100-year-old politics about Rav Weiss’s grandfather and Rav Kook.)