A "fire Ward Churchill" thread is guaranteed to get maximum interest from freepers and be bumped often. By comparison, threads to defend the academic freedom of conservatives and libertarians, like Hans Hoppe at UNLV, get much less attention. I have posted a few and they generally fall flat.
Instead of undermining academic freedom, conservatives should be defending conservatives who are victims of PC policies. Once academic freedom is destroyed, the first people to be fired and silenced will be conservatives.