Thread by @JeffreyASachs

I see this a lot. It's the last resort of the people who, when presented with evidence that liberal faculty do get fired for their speech, still want to insist conservatives are the "real" victims. The thing is, conservative profs get away with horrific speech all the time.

https://twitter.com/nathancofnas/status/1170296698653929474

Like Mitchell Langbert (CUNY), who argued last year that sexual assault is a male right of passage, and that any man who hasn't assaulted a woman has no place in public office. He later said that he wasn't serious, but I suspect Klinzman wasn't either.

nytimes.com/2018/10/04/nyr…

Or Jason Hill (DePaul), who made the case for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians earlier this summer. He, like Langbert, still have their jobs, by the way.

insidehighered.com/news/2019/04/2…

So does Fang Zhou, a Gwinnett Community College prof who begins his history class with what he calls his "anti-immigrant speech", and calls his critics ghetto thugs and libtards.

gwinnettdailypost.com/local/ggc-prof…

These examples are all from the last year, and there are many others. The fact of the matter is that there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to what kind of speech gets a faculty member fired. Certainly I've seen no evidence that libs are cut more slack than cons.