r/highereducation:

u/Ok_Permission2523

I understand your point, but what’s the alternative? If universities aren’t going to take an active role in supporting and protecting their students, what should they do? Stay silent as their students are deported simply for speech/expression?
u/Ok_Permission2523

In addition, many universities are rushing to fire employees who share their views on Kirk’s own beliefs and statements, often simply by using his own words to demonstrate his cruelty and/or hypocrisy.
u/Ok_Permission2523

Your conflation of Marxism and Neo-Nazis proves you have no idea what either of those terms mean.
u/Ok_Permission2523

What this faculty member was saying (in more academic terms) was this system sucks, we need to get rid of it. If youre prepared to have people lose their jobs for that kind of sentiment, think how broad that is. I know people across the political spectrum that share such sentiments. Often.
u/Ok_Permission2523

Great response.
u/Ok_Permission2523

That’s your take. And a misguided one at that. You speak in declarative, universal statements. That does not make any of your statements true. You repeatedly claimed he made specific threats against an individual(s). He did no such thing.
u/Ok_Permission2523

A broad-based call for revolution, even violent revolution, is not the same as a specific threat to an individual(s), as you claim. Furthermore, both “revolution” and “overthrow” have so many applications, some violent, many not. “Overthrow” can mean change via violence, for sure, but it can also and very legitimately just mean changing the system of power by any number of means. You can “overthrow” a governing system/apparatus via elections, via protests, via incremental reform, via constitutional changes, and yes, via violence.
u/Ok_Permission2523

Can you identify where Dr. Alter did this, as you claim? “If you endorse violence against your students you have no place as a professional educator or public servant. Period.”
u/Ok_Permission2523

So, theoretical discussions of changing the governing system/apparatus are off limits? Also, you do realize that this country was founded by violent revolutionaries, right?