University of Chicago Students Call On Anti-Israel Prof Mearsheimer to Retire
I second Pundit’s comment that you’re confused.
None of us calling for Mearsheimer’s voluntary retirement have the coercive power of government behind us. We’re private citizens exercising our own first amendment right to respond to offensive speech with more speech. Our call for Mearsheimer’s voluntary retirement doesn’t exceed the boundaries of our protected speech, because it’s in fact central to at least one of the ideas we’re expressing: Namely, the idea that unbalanced, sensationalistic scholarship doesn’t belong in the academy.
Now you’re free to argue that, to the contrary, unbalanced, sensationalist scholarship DOES belong in the academy; and even to boycott writers who disagree with you. (In fact, you seem to relish both those ideas.)
But your calls for writers you disagree with (including the UofC authors, Belladonna and her commenters here) essentially to “shut up,” serve not the cause of free expression that you claim to support, but more its suppression.
