Disablity rights activists want philosopher Peter Singer to lose his job...

...since, after all, if your views are offensive, you are not entitled to be employed, right?  Peter Singer is, by my lights, a pernicious presence in philosophy, but my lights or the lights of disability activists are irrelevant to whether he should be employed.  This is what academic freedom means:  academics can hold views that you think are appalling, stupid, worthless.  Maybe you are right, and maybe you are not.  But the lifeblood of the academy is insulation from such outbursts of indignation.

This latest outburst doesn't really matter, of course--Singer has weathered worse.  But it is symptomatic of something dangerous.