Well this is not a description of universities you hear everyday.
A professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts quit his job last week after 52 years, citing the increasingly “conservative” nature of the campus as his reason for leaving.
According to the Brandeis student newspaper, The Justice, Professor Donald Hindley will step down because there are “far fewer … let me call them, activist, liberal-minded people” at the school.
“I just could not tolerate anymore,” Hindley said. “It just wasn’t worth tolerating anymore what the place was becoming under [President of Brandeis University, Frederick] Lawrence.”
Hindley had multiple run-ins with the school.
He once used the term “wetbacks” during a Latin American Politics course and as a pro-Palestinian, Hindley had been accused of anti-Semitic remarks on the largely Jewish campus more than once.
Brandeis did not force Hindley to step down. Hindley told the school paper that his departure is due to his age and his belief that the politics department had become “far more conservative.”
Daniel Mael, a Brandeis student journalist who reported on many of these incidents, pushed back against Hindley’s “too conservative” assessment in a comment for Breitbart News.
“His claim that Brandeis features an atmosphere of conservative thinking vanishes in the presence of thought,” Mael said. “It is Hindley’s intolerance and bigotry that raised a number of questions for members of the Brandeis University community who believe in basic human decency.”
