Bernie Goldberg: The First Amendment Protects ‘Hateful People’ Who Say ‘Hateful, Nasty, Ugly Things’

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GOLDBERG: "But the fact is, if you teach at a public university and you do it on your own time, you are not doing it as a professor but a private citizen, Rick, you pretty much can get away with saying anything because the same First Amendment that protects people like you and me protects deplorable fools like those professors."
LEVENTHAL: "All those examples you just gave us, they all kept their jobs."
GOLDBERG: "The professor at Rutgers, yes, he kept his job but he got a slap on the wrist and they said, 'You can’t teach mandatory courses where students must take your course.' The fact is, the First Amendment protects hateful people. Normal people don’t like that and that’s understandable. But it does protect hateful people who say hateful, nasty, ugly things."