Because one guy flips out and people make it seem like it is the norm. It isn’t and he is out of the classroom this semester and the school doesn’t know what they are going to do with him next semester. Out of the thousands of professors I have only heard of a few who have snapped and wigged out in class.** I never experienced it and either has anyone close to me. ** Obviously, what this guy did IS NOT the norm.
But that isn’t what you said.
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I went to college and I never had some wacko Liberal as a professor. People in college are usually voting age. If a professor is influencing them as easily as so many think, then they shouldn’t be voting anyway. Some Republicans make it seem like no one says anything bad about Democrats. Politics is a game and both teams have it out for the other. I’m not going to get all up in arms because some professor made rude comments. He is out of the classroom this semester and the university doesn’t know what they are going to do with him next semester. This isn’t a middle school classroom that he was teaching, he was teaching adults. If college-aged people don’t have a backbone and can’t form an opinion on their own so sad for them, it isn’t some professor that they see 3 hours a week fault.*
You implied that because you haven’t had a wacko" liberal as a professor it isn’t an issue, and that somehow Republicans making rude comments about democrats outside of academics justifies a professor using a bully pulpit to defame an entire group of voters, and potentially intimidate students who may not agree with him but also do not want to be punished in terms of grades.
You also decried students lacking backbone as their own fault, but this is where you aren’t being realistic. Whether or not you personally believe students should be able to be influenced is irrelevant to the fact that they are and have been since college tuition began.
How many people formulate worldviews based on experiences in college? A great many. There have been numerous cases and studies highlighting a liberal bias, but none doing the same for a conservative bias in academia. Also, he didn’t engage in debate or critical thinking, he essentially mocked half the country and insulted them with name calling. That alone should be enough to fire him.
Fore pete’s sake, Rush Limbaugh got flamed for calling Sandra Fluke a name, and women’s groups were up in arms over him, and he is a radio personality, not a educator paid by the parents. So should we care, or not?
The left likes to preach a tone of civility and speak against hateful rhetoric (see the Arizona Giffords shooting and the angst over civility in that incident) and yet very rarely do I see them walk the walk. Too many examples of loudmouth blowhard pseudo-intellectuals complaining about mean the right is, and then calling them names in the same breath.
