A tipster led me to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) web site, they have a blog, The Torch.
That blog led me to this article from the Columbia University student newspaper, the Spectator, which ties in the hypocrisy of those left-wing free speech advocates who stand up for the vile anti-American comments made by pseudo-Indian and alleged plagiarist, Professor Ward Churchill of Colorado University, as well as those fervently anti-Israeli spewings by Columbia University Assistant Professor (and classroom bully) Joseph Massad.
Both men have taken their lumps in the media, but mostly the "new media" and conservative friendly outlets such as Fox News. Leftits of course have eagerly jumped to defend the free speech rights of Churchill and Mossad.
The Columbia Spectator correctly points out (as I've mentioned here) that those lefties so drawn to support the phony Indian and the lecture hall thug have been largely AWOL in supporting the free speech rights of those who have views that don't conform to the left wing "truths "in Academia. Thomas Klocek of DePaul, who's cause we continue to champion here is mentioned, as is the situation surrounding the January comments by Harvard President Lawrence Summers, who mentioned that maybe there is an "intrinsic" reason women have less success in advance scientific studies than men.
Of course, "off the PC reservation" remarks (sorry Ward, but I had to use that metaphor), don't seem to be viewed as free speech, but rather as racist and sexist rants by those the PC academic left.
Free speech for some, it seems to be.
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