On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > I agree 100% that teachers shouldn't be fired for expressing their views > in class, even if they're racists, even if they're KKK, even if they're > Nazis. First Amendment, academic freedom, until death. >
Actually, I wouldn't go that far at all. If this instructor at Kansas was out there spouting white-supremacist theories or something like that, I'd totally understand students demanding that she be disciplined or terminated. This is not about some abstract "free speech" principle; rather the merits of the case simply don't support calls for this instructor's termination. But: I think it's important to recognize that that might not be the entire > story. > That's completely irrelevant. This instructor may very well be an awful person, guilty of all kinds of misconduct and may very well deserve to be fired. If so, let's see that case being made and we can have that discussion. Right now the issue is a different one: should this instructor be fired for the reasons these students want her to be fired? I think the answer to that is clearly no. And the students behavior in this case is extremely problematic. -raghu.
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