Unhinged Professor Tells Students Those Who Don't Vote for Kamala Should Be "Lined Up and Shot"

[Bigun]

Students know that at the least they will receive a letter grade drop ... if not fail. And the professors know it stacks the deck in their favor to say what they want to spout.

Words for students to live by now days, "Assimilate and regurgitate".

[verga]

In academe, there is a tradition known as "academic freedom" which basically holds that a professor cannot be reprimanded for saying something provocative in the classroom. I heard what the professor said. He was being flippant, but obviously not serious when he said people should be shot and that his comments should be stricken from the tape.

Academic freedom saved my butt once in 2020, during the height of the COVID pandemic when I jokingly said told my students that "the sooner they get it the better." There was a firestorm of protest and I was Twitter famous for about a week. You would not believe the vitriol I was getting from the pro-mask, pro shutdown crowd. I apologized for the remark and the university did not reprimand me based on its policy favoring academic freedom, even though the university president was a flaming lib.

Professors embellish all the time, and sometimes we cross the line. The students are grown ups, not children. They should be exposed to all manner of opinions, which, granted, they aren't. But shutting down speech you don't like is not a solution. It puts us in the same category as the commies.

At any time did you advocate for lining them up and shooting for not getting Covid?