University of Chicago Students Call On Anti-Israel Prof Mearsheimer to Retire
“I do think that demanding someone’s retirement because he has expressed ideas that you or any other group find offensive is both intolerable and nothing more than the suppression of free speech.”
Really? Then please help me understand your position better, Warren.
Are you saying that tenure should be a lifetime license to do anything you want, including performing shoddy research, falsifying data, drawing conclusions unsupported by data, spreading lies, and endangering civilized people, but ONLY as long as someone else finds your ideas offensive? And that it’s OK to demand your retirement for doing these things (e.g., performing shoddy research, spreading lies, etc.), provided NO ONE finds your ideas offensive? In other words, are you saying that it’s the offensiveness of your ideas that makes you untouchable?
OR are you saying that once you have tenure, you should be allowed to do anything you want (including performing shoddy research, falsifying data, etc.) REGARDLESS of whether your ideas are offensive?
Just seeking clarification here.
