Rutgers University will punish a history professor for comments on his Facebook page that attracted the attention of the right-wing rage machine. His comments are, rather obviously, funny and ironic, but even if they were unfunny and unironic, they appeared on his Facebook page, which is not the University's business, under its contractual commitment to academic freedom and its constitutional obligation to abide by the First Amendment. Shame on Rutgers!
(Thanks to Rebecca Gould for the pointer.)
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