The hullabaloo among the liberal cohort over Carlson’s interview with Putin unveils that those who label communists as tankies and authoritarians are well-aware of the necessity to suppress divergent viewpoints.
It emerges that freedom of expression is limited to ideas that align with the liberal narrative; when faced with opinions they deem detrimental, liberals demand cancellation, imprisonment, or even death for the proponents.
The real disagreement liberals have with communists is over what set of ideas has merit. When liberals screech about authoritarianism what they’re really saying is that it’s their ideology that’s being suppressed.
So far she’s standing by what she did/said (it wasn’t even bad but people here freak out over everything) and doesn’t seem to be deterred. The university also has made comments about not firing her so that’s good. Another professor in another university came at her pretty aggressively but we’ll have to see if he tries anything. I hope nothing bad happens, it’d be an honour to study under Dr. Desai one day.
I imagine she has a tenure, so it’s likely pretty hard to fire her. There’s nothing illegal about travelling to Russia at the end of the day. I’m also expecting that the hysteria will start dying down as the war winds up.