Robert Oscar Lopez explains: "Academic freedom ... is not a virtue in its own right. The false view of it as an absolute good is an outgrowth of the United States' corrupted tenure system..."
The toxic marriage of tenure and identity politics
-- BombThrowers
Professor Robert Oscar Lopez continues his journey from more-or-less willing participant in the saturnalia of academic identity politics to outspoken critic of said politics and, consequentially, an academic pariah in another interesting article in American Thinker.
Early in his academic career, Lopez hit a sort of identity politics superfecta, presenting himself as a (self-identified) bisexual, black, Puerto Rican son of two lesbian mothers. But later, while on the tenure track at California State University, Northridge, he published "Growing Up With Two Moms," an article criticizing gay parenting based on his negative experiences as the fatherless child of a lesbian union.