[TigersEye]

...you can rest assured that once you go down that road of firing professors because of what they say, the chances of finding a conservative in higher education would be about the same as Lot's chances of finding five righteous men in Sodom.

That answer is fine and dandy for those who want Churchill fired for what he said. What about those of us who think he should be fired for attaining tenure on false pretenses and without the normal requisite review?

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[Sabatier]

Along the same lines, professors are paid to lecture - their speech sure isn't free there.
Students in these indoctrination classes have to conform to what Prof says or get bad grades.

[reformedliberal]

once you go down that road of firing professors because of what they say, the chances of finding a conservative in higher education would be about the same as Lot's chances of finding five righteous men in Sodom.

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Since the chances of finding a conservative in higher education are already slim to none, I do not agree w/VDH on this one. He is advocating academic dhimmitude, IMO. Eventually, the radicals in academe will die or be forced to retire. The rise of conservatism among university students would appear to indicate that eventually there will be more of them in various university departments and at some point, there will be enough of them to elect conservative department chairs and to hire more conservatives. Until that time, conservative students can keep up the pressure by continuing to criticize & publicly expose radical professors and to boycott their classes.