[tlear]

What was it 17-18% of social science profs that self identify as Marxists?

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.147...

[ionised]

You're talking about the country of McCarthyism and the Red Scare here. Those same attitudes persist in much of the population.

Tolerant is absolutely not the word I would use.