University of Chicago Students Call On Anti-Israel Prof Mearsheimer to Retire
To JPL17,
I am not calling for anyone to “shut up” as you put it. I am saying and will continue to say that calling for someone to lose their livelihood because they have expressed ideas that one group decides are offensive is not conducive to open and free inquiry. I have not called for Ms. Rogers to be terminated. Nor am I agitating for her to retire from PJ media. I am just not interested in reading the thoughts of someone who is so quick to shut down the right of another person to express their ideas.
If you do not want to read what a professor from U of C or anywhere else has read that is your right. And you are also right that you can agitate to have him removed. I just think the more honest way to approach disagreement is either to engage in the debate or ignore the messenger. But stop trying to destroy the messenger whose message you disagree with. That does not help any cause or advance understanding. In fact, it undermines understanding and civility. It is really that simple.
