U. Penn Religious Studies prof. Anthea Butler is the embodiment of modern academia. Writing on her blog what she thinks of the Zimmerman not guilty verdict, she ripped the Almighty for the cosmic injustice: God aint good all of the time. In fact, sometimes, God is not for us. As a black woman in a nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man, and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights, or my voting rights, I know that this American god aint my god. As a matter of fact, I think hes a white racist god with a problem. More importantly, he is carrying a gun and stalking young black men.
When George Zimmerman told Sean Hannity that it was Gods will that he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, he was diving right into what most good conservative Christians in America think right now. Whatever makes them protected, safe, and secure, is worth it at the expense of the black and brown people they fear.
Read the rest of the post if you like, but as for most people, aint nobody got time for that. The broader point is that the University of Penn. will undoubtedly shield Butler behind the mantle of academic freedom, and if youd like to test this theory out, feel free to email the President. Since Butler is merely smearing Christians (not to mention God), it wont count as hate speech.
Say anything untoward about a Democrat politician, an Islamist, or any of the lefts protected minorities (not sure about Asians, the median income of this group is too high for most to need the lefts nonsense), and an esteemed member of the faculty will go to an ex-professor out on the street panhandling faster than you can say Marxism is awesome.
This may come as a head-exploding revelation for a college youth who accidentally stumbles onto a non-leftist website, but there used to be a time when academia was about pursuing the truth. Nowadays, universities resemble radical think tanks and Democrat voter outreach more than institutions of higher learning.