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I hate this stuff and I lament what has happened to the humanities and social sciences, and the academy in general. But ultimately, the people...the taxpayers...must rise up against this garbage and these charlatans. If they demanded changes, state legislatures would respond. Cut their budgets and cap their tuitions. Simultaneously, wealthy alums have to stop giving to their alma maters.
Scaling back the strength of tenure would also help. It should be easier to fire professors like this guy who step way over the line.
Scaling back the strength of tenure would also help. It should be easier to fire professors like this guy who step way over the line.
His comments are private and done on twitter. Who cares, provided he's doing his job?
The issue I see here is a race to the lowest common denominator instead of the highest. You're comparing him to maybe some right-wing or racist professor getting fired for their speech and your solution is to rip up tenure instead of making it stronger so the racist professor can keep his job.
What really would help is strengthening these laws so if some professor says racist things, or other extremely right wing things they also keep their job - that way everyone is treated equally and tenure becomes a powerful safeguard for professors to continue being academics without fear.
This is like saying "the fish is dry and swims in the ocean."
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Who cares, provided he's doing his job?
The school seems to think critiquing society is part of his job as a humanities professor. If he were a science professor, he might have been fired for his remarks.
Maybe karma will pay this guy a visit someday when some druggie approaches him for an offering of everything in his wallet and bashes him when it turns out not to be enough. I bet he'd of been wishing there was a cop around to help him, and certainly he'd be expecting the police to go searching for the culprit.
What he doesn't realize is that his world would come crashing down fast if there weren't police out there keeping some semblance of safety for the general public. Guys like him would make for easy targets for the bad guys.
Hard to believe that even in California's University system would allow someone like this to be on staff, and to make statements such as this for a period of years. Even harder to believe is that the taxpayers paying his salary allow it. Reading garbage like this, it is sometimes hard to remember that there are actually still some decent people left in the People's Republic of California that have yet to become refugees.
You have to fire people that advocate violence like that or else you can become culpable for continuing to give them a platform for their hate...UCD should fire her immediately.
You have to fire people that advocate violence like that or else you can become culpable for continuing to give them a platform for their hate...UCD should fire her immediately.
Thats hard to do when this country was basically founded and became free, due to people resorting to violence against the sitting govt/authority at the time, how do you discourage the people from violence today and then celebrate what the historical patriots did at the same time?
What are you talking about? Who resorted to violence?
Farmers and regular citizens armed themselves and joined militias.
American Revolution was basically a violent overthrow of a sitting Govt.
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