INTERVIEW: Why UVM Professor Aaron Kindsvatter is being asked to resign
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Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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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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