This really highlights the important role that The Onion increasingly plays in today's world.

Satire is dead

“The whole [academic] enterprise we’re engaged in rests on the ability to have open intellectual exchange about any topic and express our views honestly,” says Josh Dubnau, a neurobiologist at Stony Brook University and one of the letter’s authors. “Nothing he said was repugnant or hateful. There shouldn’t be consequences for minority views in academia.”

This guy is right, enforced groupthink is incompatible with an earnest effort to engage with reality as it is.

Criticism of Eisen, who is Jewish, for a perceived lack of sympathy for the Israelis killed by Hamas immediately erupted.

"All lives matter," shout people who think it's gotta be one or the other.

And then of course he provides beautifully-stated sympathy for the victims of Hamas, and nuh-uh that doesn't count.

People. What a bunch of bastards.