[wideawake]

(1) Daly is backtracking. His comments were intended seriously and not as metaphors. Not only is he a traitor, not only is he a coward, but he is a sniveling little sissyboy without even the courage of his ludicrous and execrable convictions. He's cut and run from his own words in order to try to save his job. Candyass loser.

(2) Daly should be fired for incompetence. His message to the student was ungrammatical and poorly written - demonstrating concretely that he lacks the skills required for his job description: professor of English.

(3) Laying questions of "academic freedom" aside for one moment, he has no right to say what he said as a private citizen. His words aid and abet the enemy in time of war and incite insubordination and treason. He should at least be in prison for what he wrote, if not hung from a gallows as he legally deserves.

(4) There is no such thing as "academic freedom" as a practical matter. Academic institutions in this country, with John Daly's full support, practice outright discrimination against academics who have conservative and patriotic points of view. John Daly and his ilk have systematically eliminated academic freedom over the past four decades.

(5) There is no such thing as complete "academic freedom" anyway. Colleges and universities are institutions which are beholden to the taxpayers and consumers which fund them. It is immoral to demand payment or employment from taxpayers and consumers without providing the manner and level of service which you were contracted to provide. There is no right to be paid for doing a bad job.

[Calpernia]

Very well said.

BTTT

[Fintan]

His comment about soldiers turning their guns on superiors was meant "in the most metaphoric sense," he explained.

 

Your analysis is on the money. It never ceases to amuse me how these useless socialist slugs backtrack and try to rationalize their poisonous beliefs to save their sorry asses.