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Year-by-year on a substandard wage, they're not good to put everything at risk by disagreeing, part of what the tenure system does is protect those few faculty who have the courage to speak up honestly and resist prevailing opinion. without tenure then prevailing opinion, political correctness just rules and no one speaks out against it. theoretically the tenure system protects those people. >> tucker: in effect, that's not true, most of us don't have job security, i've been fired, i say whatever i feel like saying, perhaps i'll be fired again. the truth is tenure protects the mediocre, if you...

Faculty members political opinions are because they don't teach subject matter that's engaged with politics. it doesn't matter what their politics are, they're never going to express them on campus. in some disciplines english and history, it's different. >> tucker: it is different, but again, i'm merely saying the point of tenure is to keep a humanities professor from being penalized for having some opinion outside of the mainstream. what my point is you have total conformity anyway even withh tenure. >> think about this. let's just say in the humanities department english or history certain ...