CA Professor: “People think that cops need to be reformed. They need to be killed.”

[Redraven]

UCD?
enough said.

[NomadicDrifter]

Originally Posted by The Dark Enlightenment

This is like saying "the fish is dry and swims in the ocean."

The point is he made those comments (presumably) on his own time and as a private citizen. I don't see why the university should fire a tenured professor for that. Of course, I'm aware of the double standard in academia. I'm saying strengthen tenure laws (they're good) so all professors -irregardless of speech - are protected instead of dismantling these protections for everyone in the sake of fairness.

[Mr. Joshua]

Originally Posted by NomadicDrifter

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.

If a racist professor said blacks or Jews should be killed, he/she should be fired immediately.

And under what ideology should professors be immune from being fired? Are they gods?

[Seagrape Grove]

Originally Posted by saltine

Im guessing twitter was cool with this too?

Yes, indeed, Twitter is cool with just about anything that comes from the mouth of a Leftist, no matter how inflammatory it may be. In Dec. 2018, Franklin Graham, was suspended from Facebook for 24 hours for this comment he made in April 2016--two and a half years before--for violating their rules about "hate speech".



“April 9, 2016— Bruce Springsteen, a long-time gay rights activist, has cancelled his North Carolina concert. He says the NC law #HB2 to prevent men from being able to use women’s restrooms and locker rooms is going ‘backwards instead of forwards.’ Well, to be honest, we need to go back! Back to God. Back to respecting and honoring His commands. Back to common sense. Mr. Springsteen, a nation embracing sin and bowing at the feet of godless secularism and political correctness is not progress. I’m thankful North Carolina has a governor, Pat McCrory, and a lieutenant governor, Dan Forest, and legislators who put the safety of our women and children first! HB2 protects the safety and privacy of women and children and preserves the human rights of millions of faith-based citizens of this state.”





https://christianjournal.net/news/fr...ate-speech039/


For FB to assign their "speech police" to go back years to monitor the voice of a prominent, conservative Christian theologian is very revealing as to their agenda to silence the voices of conservatives.