Reply #24: The whole idea behind tenuring is to insulate the academia from

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politics. Yes, I think this guy's a wacko and maybe he's part of some candestine effort to discredit the left. But if we start picking off professors who we don't like, it sets a precedent to make all professors subject to a government approved line of thinking.

If you don't what Mr. Churchill's has to say, don't attend his lectures or take his courses. That's a good way to discredit his viws, IMHO. Stifling anyone's freedom of speech, particularly in academics, is a very bad idea.

The time for doing due diligence is before offering tenure. In most cases, problems are weeded out at this point.