A NJ college professor shares conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic tropes. Is that protected speech?
A sociology professor at William Paterson University of New Jersey in Wayne has been recorded on video espousing a series of anti-Semitic beliefs about Jews. They include the ideas that Ashkenazi Jews are not genetically related to the ancient Israelites; that 175,000 German Jews found safe harbor in the German army during the Holocaust; and that Judaism has degenerated from a universal religion, with roots in ancient Egypt, to a racist religion.
Benny Koval, 18, of Fair Lawn, recorded the videos. Koval, a freshman, was enrolled in Clyde Magarelli’s course, Sociology 1020, “Social Problems.”
It is not the first time Magarelli has stirred controversy in the classroom.
Last year, another student complained to the department head and filed a formal complaint with the school.
And in 1994, Magarelli was rebuked by his department after handing students a document that downplayed the number of deaths in Nazi concentration camps. According to the Feb. 7, 1994 issue of the Beacon, the school’s newspaper, Magarelli’s handout said: “In relationship to the media theme of six million concentration camp deaths … a figure of between 700,000 and 800,000 appears more realistic.”
https://www.jta.org/2018/06/07/news-opinion/nj-college-professor-shares-conspiracy-theories-anti-semitic-tropes-protected-speech
I'm shocked by the universities response, this idea of "academic freedom" is being perverted IMO. And what does protected speech have to do with anything? I could say on the job that the company I work for sucks, that doesn't protect me from being terminated.
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