University of Chicago Students Call On Anti-Israel Prof Mearsheimer to Retire
In reply,
I am all in favor of sound scholarship. But who is to be the arbiter of that scholarship? Open debate is the best way to the truth, not suppression of ideas that you find distasteful. And what better way to suppress debate than to insure that people can’t express their opinions without fear of losing their livelihood? Surely tenure must mean more than toeing the party line at all costs?
As for pundit’s question. I fail to see the distinction between demanding a man’s dismissal or agitating for his resignation. Either way, the individual is being pressured to lose his job because he has expressed ideas that you or another group find abhorrent.
This is nothing more than suppression of free speech. And it is intolerable to the survival of an open and free society.
