Michigan Tech history and anthropology professor Dr. Carl Blair showed himself to be a supporter of free speech unless it is a conservative student group on campus. He described a project taken on by the group as “childish” and “stupid.”
The group is the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter on the Michigan Technological University campus. The professor insulted and ranted against the organization during a class. This followed the completion of the chapter’s Freedom Week project on campus. Audio of the rant was released Tuesday.
The project was the construction of a mock Berlin Wall to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the wall’s fall. The angry professor called the project “childish” and “stupid.”
“For those of you who weren’t aware of it [YAF’s Freedom Week activism project], good. For those of you who were aware of it, it was childish, stupid, homophobic, dumb, racist twits. That’s the polite version,” Blair said.
He went on to say that other faculty members are holding back on their reactions to the group because some are hoping that the group is censored. Then YAF can play victim, Blair said.
It seems to me that it is Blair that…
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