Marquette University Demands Professor Apologize to Colleague, For the Sin of Criticizing Her Anti-Free-Speech Classroom Policy

She said that certain opinions (guess which ones) were inappropriate for her class and would not be countenanced; he wrote a blog-post criticizing her.

The university is now demanding he publicly apologize and sign on to a "guidance" reaffirming the university's core (leftist) values.

He's telling them to go hang -- but he knows they're doing this to gin up a pretext to fire him. But he's telling them to go hang anyway.

Meanwhile, linked at Instapundit, Virginia Postrel talks about conservative professors in the closet, and the jellyfish jackass dean of Emory is now pretending to be pro-free-speech, after having already promised the SJWs he'd prosecute the "Trump 2016" chalker.

Apparently Emory's alumna are circulating a petition demanding Emory re-commit itself to free speech.

No longer does Emory University serve as a beacon of intellectual diversity attracting some of the best and brightest young adults from across the world, much as it attracted us. Instead, Emory has become just another school in the well-documented pattern of universities that have surrendered to the demands of a vocal few that emotional comfort, ideological conformity and yes, "safe environments" trump fundamental notions of free speech. Critical thinking and exposure to other opinions are unwanted. But this does not have to be how the story ends. It is vitally important that we respond to this trend by reaffirming our foundational notions of freedom. Unfortunately, President Wagner and Emory University have thus far failed to rise to the challenge.

And that's a big deal, because the only pushback against the Adult Babies running the campuses (as AllahPundit called them) is for the trustees and alumna/donors to treat the Adult Babies the only way you can treat Adult Babies: by threatening to cut off the Adult Babies' allowance unless they get a haircut and fly right.

posted by Ace at 01:36 PM

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