"Bert Hyman" <bert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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(Bo Raxo) wrote in
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>> "NapalmHeart" <olsonfamNOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> It seems that free speech is not respected at Emanuel College. I
>>> have to wonder how many other rights they don't care for on that
>>> campus.
>>
>> Apparently you think "free speech" means you can say anything you
>> want at work and your employer can't fire you for it. How insane.
>
> However, members of the chattering cl***** have 'til now always
> sup****ted their idea of "academic freedom", which allows professors
> and instructors to say or do anything in their cl*****, regardless of
> how outrageous they might be, without fear of repercussion.
>
> Why the change of heart for this single incident?
>
There's a big difference between "say anything" and "do anything", you're
mistaken in confusing the two. There have always been limitations on
acceptable behavior. Recreating something that traumatic seems to cross
the
line for these people. Personally, I think it's silly they fired him for
that. But the first poster was as I pointed out confusing free speech
with
employment, you're conflating academic freedom with some kind of absolute
freedom.
Have a professor argue in favor of, say, child molesting and child
****ography, take a guess as to how long he or she would be employed.
Sleeping with a student will get you fired in many places, the notion that
they could "do anything" under the rubric of academic freedom is
ridiculous.
I don't know where you went to college, I went to the most liberal place
on
earth (UC Berkeley), and instructors did have restrictions on what they
could and could not do. If they'd spouted, say, racist views, they would
be
headed for the door.
Bo Raxo
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