He is going to have to get a job at McDonalds or at a car wash someplace because it is not likely that any newspaper or university will ever again employ him. Though their profession encourages them to encourage it, academics routinely condemn my call for open debate on the Holocaust controversy. I understand how they feel. They re afraid that if they stand with the ideals of the university, with their own calling, they too will become targets of ADL slander and condemnation. I sympathize with the professors.
Nobody likes to be slandered.
That s what grown-ups are sometimes called upon to do, however. Sometimes they are called to stand up for what they profess to hold dear. This is what makes the odd professor here and there precious to his or her students. Today, the question of when intellectual freedom should be permitted at an American university and when it should not is addressed by American professors much as German professors addressed it, as a class, in Nazi Germany. During the National Socialist regime the professors agreed to agree that Jews were a subversive racial minority who posed a threat to German cultural values and should not be allowed to argue publicly against the racial policies of the State.