Thread by @donmoyn

A history professor at a tweeted criticism of VP Pence and university leadership pandemic response.
Elected officials and Fox News expressed outrage.
The College President promised to "deal with it."
Then she was fired.
(via @TheFIREorg)
thefire.org/lawsuit-fired-…

Willing to wager that a faculty fired because for speech that offended local politicians will receive only a fraction of the coverage of the faculty whose invite to MIT was rescinded. Both are bad, but the more serious attack on academic freedom will get less attention.

Campus Reform, College Fix, YAF and Fox routinely target faculty for their social commentary every day, hoping to create enough pressure to silence them. It has become a professional hazard. Lets be honest that these orgs don't care about free speech or cancel culture.

Wish I could say this was the first time I encountered an elected official who presented himself as a champion of free speech while also seeking to get faculty fired for speech they disagree with.

Let's assume that both heavy handed bureaucratic response to a law school student at Yale is bad, and so is the violation of first amendment rights leading to the firing of a professor. Why will one of these get so much more attention?

https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1446963496005087235?s=20