A skinhead teaching at the University of Delaware?
A controversial class in understanding whiteness at UCLA (and several other institutions)?
Should these things happen on college campuses?
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From the article you cited,
“Our best choice is to tolerate him,” said Dean Carter, a 19-year-old English major. “Ninety-nine percent of the students won’t agree with him. His views are upsetting, and we should support his right to have his opinions…”
Isn’t this parallel to not hiring Jews or Christians or Repubs or Dems for their views that don’t affect their work? I may despise what he espouses, but firing him for his views is just wrong.
I hated when the ACLU defended the nazis in Skokie, but I can me realize that it was the right thing to do. I can’t choose which speech is protected if I want free speech protected. Rock/hard place this democracy thing is.
Yes, free speech is a right we all have but should we draw the line when we are overtly saying we value certain people (a particular race, group or class of people) less than some others??? Isn’t that why we abolished slavery and had the civil rights movement?? To do away with that kind of thinking?? Should he be fired, I don’t know. Once agian…. rock/hard place…