Should unpatriotic commie professors be fired?
The answer is no, they should not (deci-jokingly one could add “if for no other reason that we’d have no professors at all if we did that”).
Consequently, I don’t feel any particular joy over the news that a pro-fragging community college professor in California has resigned after making some outrageously anti-American comments in an email response to a student at his college. You can read more about the incident in this press release from a right-wing student group.
What really disturbs me is that the recipient of the deranged email complains about having been exposed to a “hostile learning environment” because of the professor’s written outburst, along with her demand that “institute seminars on free speech and sensitivity to teach intolerant leftists, such as [the professor], to be respectful of differing opinions.”
Oh, dear.
First of all, you have to have thicker skin than that if you wade into this shit we call political debate. Second, thought-control seminars are for our opponents and enemies over on the left to propose. Us conservatives (and fellow non-conservative right wingers) should stand up for free speech and vigorous debate.
Now, chances are that the professor in question was a mediocre professor, and for that reason shouldn’t have been teaching at a college, but that is a separate matter and should not be confused with his looney-tunes belief that communism is a brilliant idea.
