re: LSU professor says she will start dropping (racist) students - says she’s keeping a list

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What is the measuring stick there, though? Does that include minorities who are hateful of their current lot in life? Hateful towards what, specifically, would justify denying admission? One's parents? God?

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Do you think that a student who espouses death to all Jews should be allowed into a university?

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Do you think that a student who espouses death to all Jews should be allowed into a university?

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That depends.

Does that student have a 98 mph fastball to go with a 90 mph slider??

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Do you think that a student who espouses death to all Jews should be allowed into a university?

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Yes. For the same reason my degree program required me to read Mein Kampf.

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why don't a large number of you contact her boss and try to have her fired?

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No. It's not the right thing to do imo. I don't know this woman. I don't know how good of a teacher she is. I know she made a terrible suggestion in a time where she probably thought she was in the right and going to look really good doing it. She was praised by many people actually so she was half right. It was a mistake and I don't think it's worth her job. If she went through with it, yes. But no reason to fire her now unless you support cancel culture.

I get that it's "nice" to see the left's standards and methods backfire on their own, but it's not something I want normalized.

You should ask for forgiveness.

I don't want a society that tolerates and expects people to lose jobs (this teacher) or the chance at an education (this future student) for every mistake they make. Her intention was to keep racists out of her class. Generally and on its face, a cause most would support. However, the execution was completely off. She could have said something along the lines of vowing to respond to any hate-fill remarks in her class by removing that person per the student guidelines which is well within her right. And if someone said something like this in a classroom, I would expect them to be removed. Speech in a classroom is not completely protected by the first amendment.

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Modern Supreme Court decisions have made it clear that the right to free speech and expression can sometimes be subordinated to achieve legitimate educational goals. (See discussions of Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier and Bethel School District v. Fraser.) A school is not comparable to a public park where anyone can stand on a soapbox or a bulletin board on which anyone can post a notice. While students and teachers do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate” (Tinker v. Des Moines), speech is not quite as free inside educational institutions as outside.

This does not mean that students and teachers have no First Amendment rights at school. Quite the contrary. But within the educational setting, the right to free speech is implemented in ways that do not interfere with schools’ educational mission.

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And that is why this will continue to happen to conservatives.

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It happens far more to liberals. Look at Kevin Hart and others who have been attacked and forced to either quit or capitulate. Hell, there's a thread about Loyola's former dean of journalism getting canceled at another school. She certainly wasn't conservative.

She should be terminated immediately.

It's not from a position of prevention. But if he were to make that same remark while in her classroom, she would have every right and would likely even be expected to remove him as it would interfere with his interaction and the education of others. I think the disciplinary board would agree. Again, the classroom setting has limitations on free speech. It's not a park or a common area.