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Related: About this forumCourt sides with Moreno Valley College prof who says he was fired for presenting conservative views
As classes resume this week at Moreno Valley College, a dispute continues between school officials and a former professor who says he was wrongly fired in October 2017 and is trying to get his job back.
Attorneys for Eric Thompson, who began teaching there in August 2005, argue that the Riverside Community College District discriminated against the Christian sociology teacher, firing him because he presented conservative views on such topics as same-sex marriage and sexual orientation.
That is ironic, said Brad Dacus, founder and president of the Pacific Justice Institute, because colleges have long been held as the open marketplace of ideas. The institute has been defending the professor.
Dacus said by phone recently that attempting to squelch a particular point of view is very dangerous for the healthy college campus learning experience.
Read more: https://www.pe.com/2019/08/27/court-sides-with-moreno-valley-college-professor-who-says-he-was-fired-for-presenting-conservative-views/
(Riverside Press Enterprise)
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)They're institutes of learning about REALITIES ... of the universe, humanity, the plant/animal kingdom, economics, psychology, etc, etc.
They're not about promoting made up, outdated nonsense scribbled down by wandering Bronze Age desert nomads with ZERO grasp of really ANYTHING concerning the actual operation of the universe.
Outside a Religious Studies class, 'conservative', i.e. 'religious' so-called 'ideas' ... have no fucking place in any public institute of actual 'learning'.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)They're not really what you would call an "oppressive" group, at least not at Riverside City College.
There seems to be more to this than meets the eye, as the appeals drag out.