This and the varioius articles about the Harvard faculty's academic lynching of Larry Summers show the complete mess the Marxists (AKA liberals) have made of academia and their total hypocrisy, where they claim free speech and academic freedom for themselves while denying it to their mildest critics.
Churchill is and has always been an academic fraud. He falsified his ethnicity to get an AA position, lacked the essential, minimum academic credentials, published his articles in advocacy journals instead of peer reviewed academic journals, and has been persuasively accused of plagiarizing his material and faking some of his research. All of the foregoing defects in his background and scholarship would have been obvious to anyone who gave him a thorough and fair vetting. Nevertheless, he was given tenure in one year, rather than the usual six, because UC, driven by PC pressures, desperately wanted a radical, American Indian "scholar" on its faculty. Now it's learned that he slandered the 9/11 victims as "little Eichmanns" without any evidence and his supporters stridently defend him on "free speech" and "academic freedom" grounds.
However, Larry Summers, a man with a brilliant background, genuine credentials for his position, and a full-fledged member of the liberal establishment, makes one speculative remark, in an professional academic context, about why women as a group do not do as well in hard sciences as men, is subjected to a full, hysterical, screeching attack and is forced to do Maoist self-criticism. Few professors, particularly at Harvard, are making any effort to defend Summers' academic freedom, although that is exactly what he was responsibly exercising in a forum specifically designed for its exercise.
Only an institution rotten to the core with Marxism could elevate and lionize an unqualified, malicious crackpot who defecates on the memory of the 9/11 victims, while simultaneously pillorying a highly qualified, responsible academic leader who maturely and thoughtfully addresses a serious academic personnel issue in a professional forum designed to deal with that issue.
These two cases show Marxist academia is rotten to the core and totally hypocritical.
the left functions like a huge union or mafia. if you belong, you get stuff. if you don't belong, you don't get stuff.
i remember during the jimmy carter presidency looking for a job. someone said, you've a vet, go down to the county.
down at the county they were handing out pay checks from some carter program to miniorities. they didn't do anything work for the pay.
i wasn't eligible. in return the recipients vote democrat.
An outlandish conservative in similar circumstances would have been thoroughly discredited and savaged by the liberal media by now.