Thread by @ggreenwald

If you can, please listen to this amazing Red Scare interview with NYU Professor @mcrispinmiller, now being formally investigated by NYU with threats of firing because -- in a class on **propaganda**! -- he encouraged students to review the conflicting messaging on mask-wearing:

https://twitter.com/annakhachiyan/status/1342920166804496385

I hope this will be made available to non-subscribers. The story is amazing. *One student* in the class whined on Twitter that she was upset by his teachings on COVID propaganda, and so the University apologized to her & assured her he'd be investigated:

https://twitter.com/mccNYU/status/1308037115129860096

You'll be unsurprised to learn that the @ACLU hasn't weighed in despite its being at NYU, but the always-principled and apolitical @TheFIREorg has, warning that these formal investigations pose a grave threat to academic freedom:

thefire.org/nyu-ignores-ac…

Miller has expressed views that I don't like or agree with. He deviates from orthodoxies. But that's the point of tenure! Like free speech, tenure isn't needed for NYT-reading, NPR-listening mavens of mainstream pieties who fill faculty lounges. It's for people like Miller.

The witch hunt against Professor Miller was started by a few petulant students but now, unsurprisingly, is being led by liberal NYU Professors who think scholars should be fired for not parroting their trite agitprop. More info here, with a fundraiser:

gofundme.com/f/help-mark-cr…