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I donate to FIRE and support most of what they do but I disagree with their position here. I don't like that the professor got fired for this but as a private institution, Hamlin has their own right to mediate speech as they see fit. Go ahead and heap bad press on them and let the market sort it out.

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Isn't the Higher Learning Commission (Hamline's accreditor) also private? Isn't it within their First Amendment rights to do this too? Why should the argument "it's okay because it's legal" apply to the university but not to the professor or the accreditor?

WTF? Hemline University claims to be a university in the Western tradition of universities and Western society in general. It can either fire the instructor but then ought to dissolve itself, or keep him and live on. It can't do both at the same time.

The first word of that post was not necessary, but the rest I agree with. In particular, the article layed out that they are bound to freedom of speech by the "TOS" of the sponsor.

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