I mentioned that to a tenured faculty member once where I worked. You would have thought I had hit him with a baseball bat 3 times upside the head he was so stunned. But, but, but I won’t have academic freedom he stuttered! I said name one time anyone in administration has uttered a word or done anything to stop you a tenured professor or any UN-TENURED instructor from saying or doing anything in the classroom. He couldn’t.
My next line was I am staff, I am not guaranteed a job for life and 99% of all the other people out there are not, people you claim to care deeply about as most liberals say they do, what makes you special? More stuttering and he walks out of my office red faced and enraged, but couldn’t answer the questions. Tenure is nothing more than job security for the incompetent.
You want to hear them really whine and cry about academic freedom? Defund something. Anything.