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The Dershow

INTERVIEW: Why UVM Professor Aaron Kindsvatter is being asked to resign

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I interview UVM Professor Aaron Kindsvatter to discuss why 2000 students signed a petition calling for his resignation.

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0:00.0

We've talked a lot on the show about academic freedom and freedom of speech on university

0:05.5

campuses.

0:06.5

We've talked about people who have been fired because they expressed views different

0:10.4

from the consensus on universities.

0:12.7

Today we have a great guest.

0:14.6

We have a guy who has not been fired.

0:17.2

He's still teaching at the University of Vermont, but he has gotten a letter from the

0:21.8

administration.

0:22.8

A letter sent to everybody in the entire community saying that his values are different

0:29.2

from those of the university and the university divides the world into racist and anti-racist

0:35.5

people implying that he doesn't fit into the category of anti-racist.

0:39.9

We'll hear about the situation he faces.

0:43.6

We'll hear about how he's responding to that when we interview Professor Aaron Kinsflotter.

0:52.1

We've been speaking a lot about academic freedom and freedom of speech at universities.

1:00.7

And today we have an extraordinary guest, a man who is at the center of a battle at the

1:05.8

University of Vermont, which is a public university subject to the first amendment.

1:12.1

This is Professor Kinsflotter, a father of children in German, as he told me and explained

1:17.7

to me.

1:18.9

And he is the father of children in the sense that he's a professor who's training younger

1:24.1

people to go into the world.

1:26.9

But he's made some controversial statements about race and discrimination, and he has come

1:34.7

under criticism with petitions.

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