{"id":50676,"date":"2020-01-12T12:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T20:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=50676"},"modified":"2020-01-12T12:59:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T20:59:57","slug":"the-media-spin-on-a-racistsexisthomophobe-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/the-media-spin-on-a-racistsexisthomophobe-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"The media spin on a \u201cRacistsexisthomophobe\u201d Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For years I\u2019ve covered faculty being removed from campus for having integrity, or at least the sense enough to not agree with \u201cthe narrative,\u201d and First Amendment protections never seem to apply. Thus I was more than a little puzzled when I saw the following headline:<\/p>\n

Indiana University admits a professor has ‘racist, sexist, and homophobic’ views but say they can’t fire him because of the First Amendment<\/a><\/p>\n

After years of over-use, the cry of RACIST has lost its strength, and now extra slurs are typically tacked on, in this case, \u201csexist and homophobic,\u201d although \u201cright wing\u201d and other scare words are typically used as well.<\/p>\n

But this can\u2019t be right. I\u2019ve seen professors removed before, the First Amendment has offered no protection against the ideologues running many of our campuses today. So, I was suspicious, and seeing the link is from fake news site MSN, I found considerable amusement in the spin here. Let\u2019s take a look:<\/p>\n