What the heck is going on here? It has been my experience that people who call themselves liberal are usually very tolerant of differing ideas. I am surprised by the professor's remarks below from the Fox interview regarding "leftist" intolerance. I would normally think that the tolerant viewpoint would be dominant and the professor could continue teaching.
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MITCHELL: Well, that's probably overstating it a little bit, but there is — at the university, I kind of divide my colleagues up into two groups. There are liberals, and there are leftists.
And the liberals are great people. They're open-minded, and they'd hire me, which is their most outstanding characteristic, as far as I'm concerned, and they are good educators.
And then there are people to the academic left who feel that certain points of view are a threat to the overall educational process, and they seek to stifle that.
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