How one would answer the following question has long been considered a test of one’s commitment to certain principles of free and open discussion: would you defend even those whom you loathe, and who have maligned you, from others who would shut them up?
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The quite distasteful and bigoted Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a poor excuse for a professor, is under investigation for allegedly making a slur on gay people in one of his classes. Information is available on the History News Network “Liberty & Power Blog.” (I added my own comments to the Liberty & Power blog in defense of the kooky professor [apologies for the somewhat garbled grammar], which occasioned an unpleasant exchange from someone who had posted distasteful comments of a sexual nature on my website in the past; judge for yourself whether his denial is persuasive.)
For those academics who can hold their noses to do so, a letter to the UNLV president in defense of respecting the contract between the University and Hoppe would be in order.
Addendum: I have sent a letter to the president of the university encouraging her not to punish Hoppe or to abrogate his contractual rights in any way.