[ppod]

I think the mention of suicide was wrong, but it sounds like you're saying that a University should fire any employees that express right-wing views. You actually said 'right wing garbage', but I didn't see any fact-checking on either side.

[mturmon]

That characterization ("right wing garbage") is pretty much correct. Read the referenced twitter feed, which includes threats to divulge "dirt" about his workplace if he gets 500 followers.

There is a case to be made for free speech on campus, but this professor is not making it. Sad!

[riverside]

My critique of his actions starts and ends with this: If you're posting a bunch of trollbait just to see if your peers and students will react poorly, and then they do, and you get in trouble for it, good.

[LyndsySimon]

How is this any different than saying "If you're a black man and you appear in public with a white woman just to see if people will react poorly, and you get in trouble for it, good"?

Before someone suggests that I'm equating the two actions, I am not. My point is that this line of thought absolves others of responsibility for their actions. Whether or not the professor anticipated the response is irrelevant to the question "Is this sort of response wholly inappropriate?"

[riverside]

>How is this any different

>Before someone suggests that I'm equating the two actions, I am not.

Sounds like you know the answer!

[LyndsySimon]

> My point is that this line of thought absolves others of responsibility for their actions.

[tdb7893]

If you read the tweets this guy wasn't trying to create a discourse with pepole but to make a group of people angry at him, which makes sense why the university would be against that