Michigan State reassigned Penn to another class. Fuck that, if I were dean i'd have PROMOTED him for his brave stance.
And isn't free speech for everyone, even bigots? If i were as narrow minded as everyone trashing William Penn I'd be bitching about why is Kevin MacDonald the anti-semitic "Professor" behind that "Occidental Dissent" site still a professor at a Cal State University thus taking MY taxpayer dollars to teach his International Jewish Conspiracy bullshit in the classroom? But oh well it's a fact of life that academia attracts people you'll disagree with, because their minds are way more open than yours will ever be.
In the free press story i linked to one of the MSU trustees who's a REPUBLICAN supported the decision because "We need to ensure that our classrooms have a free exchange of ideas and opinions." Yet the prof got PUNISHED for his free exchange, WTF? Penn's idea: "If you go to the Republican convention in Florida, you see all of the old Republicans with the dead skin cells washing off them. They are cheap. They don’t want to pay taxes because they have already raped this country and gotten everything out of it they possibly could. This country still is full of closet racists. What do you think is going on in South Carolina and North Carolina? Voter suppression. It’s about getting black people not to vote. Why? Because black people tend to vote Democratic." He's DAMN RIGHT about that closet racists thing, so right he UPSET the right wing troglodyte student.
Furthermore, my fave atheist blogger PZ Myers has said, "If a student is never made uncomfortable, that student is not getting an education." Hey Campus Conservatives, suck it up or go to somewhere like BYU or Hillsdale or Falwell's "Liberty" University if you're such small minded cowards you'd whine and scream at the mere criticism of your outmoded ideas.
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