I don't care about Ward Churchill

I'd fire him, not on the grounds of his weird opinions (It's not like he was teaching creationism or something serious!), but for being an embarrassment to an institution of higher learning. If your college is stuck in the 1960s why should anybody send their kid there?

Everybody has the right to free speech, but that doesn't mean you have a right to a job which gives you a platform for it. I'm sick of this argument that every nutjob uses to justify idiotic ranting. This isn't just unpopular opinion; it's hackneyed, unimaginative and we've all heard it all ad nauseum. The worst thing about political correctness is that it forces everybody to be subjected to a lot of drivel, pornography and hate in the name of free speech. The rule shouldn't be just "publish or perish" it should also be have something interesting to say. That's the difference between Ulysses and the natterings of intellectual suicide bombers like Ward Churchill. He has the right to speak his noxious opinions, but he doesn't have the right to have the people of Colorado or anyone else provide him a position from which to disseminate them. I also think that no institution should be required to allow its employees to damage its funding source in the name of academic freedom.