Paul Krugman, professors seek top economist’s removal from influential job for criticizing Black Lives Matter | Fox News

University of Michigan professor Justin Wolfers and dozens of other academics are leading a massive effort to have a senior faculty member at the University of Chicago removed from his position at the world’s preeminent economics journal — all because he criticized Black Lives Matter’s push to defund police departments.

The attack on a leading academic at the University of Chicago, traditionally a bastion of free speech and no-nonsense conservative economic theory, comes as swarms of left-wing activists have successfully secured numerous firings across the country for viewpoints they deem politically unacceptable.

In extraordinary cases just this week, an LA Galaxy soccer player was fired because of his wife’s posts on Black Lives Matter; a UCLA lecturer was suspended for pointedly refusing to cancel his exam for black students; and a Cornell Law School faculty member was threatened with termination for criticizing Black Lives Matter. (Cornell’s dean later issued a defense of academic freedom while condemning the faculty member’s remarks.) The Federalist has compiled a slew of other examples.

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