What if he had said he hoped all AIDs-infected homosexuals would die? What if he had said blacks are lazy and oversexed? What if he said abortionists are murderers and should be dealt justice? See, academic free speech depends not on being allowed to say things, but what things you say. Attack liberal, left-wing icons with the same vitriol (or even less) that he used against the US and our military will get you canned, academic free speech be damned!
Who is Gray trying to fool? Columbia supports De Gonova's comments as long as he's teaching there.