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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm female and I'm centrist.  I don't go for the fringe left or the fringe right.

Having said that, this is my thought:  If you can't exercise freedom of speech on a college setting, where the hell can you exercise it?

All of this "fire the guy" rhetoric is intolerance in disguise.

We NEED to have a range of opinions in society, and we NEED to discuss this range of opinions.  Otherwise all of us move in lock step together.  That's not good for society.

How the hell do you think the Middle East ended up in a place where women are treated as chattel? First, women allowed it to happen.  Second, society was not questioning itself on an ongoing basis.

I think it's healthy to have a range of opinions, to discuss them, to discard the crazier ideas.  But don't discourage freedom of speech.  It's a cornerstone of our democracy.[/quote]

He is welcome to his opinions. But, let's be clear, he has the position of being able to affect grades. If he cannot do that fairly -and he cannot; at the very least he has poisoned the perception of his ability- he should not be in that position.

This is not a "free speech" issue, as much as you would cast it as so. It is a consequence of him running his mouth and demonstrating his own ignorance and intolerance.

And don't cast it as being "intolerant" to want him fired. I have to be -and should be- tolerant of people going on about things like this in their personal capacity. I do NOT have to be so from a professor who is in charge of grading female students and may be doing so with an explicitly stated bias.[/quote]

He's a political science professor. He's held these views for years. I'm unaware of any claim he's not grading fairly. That would be easy to handle -- have another person grade the same assignments and compare. Or (like many grading computer systems already have the option), make it so the professor can't see the name of the student whose paper they are grading.
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