Disingenuous? I thought that the information posted by aquamarine (as cited by mtmind) that the conservative faculty were aging out and the newly recruited faculty were “left-leaning” raised a serious and important question. I figured everyone else had the issue of what should happen to the particular professor covered and was interested to hear what people thought about the more general issue.
Again, I didn’t “assume” the new faculty would be left-leaning- I relied on aquamarine’s explicit statement that this was the case.
I do agree that it doesn’t matter what the politics of the professor are here - profs of any stripe can be and have been offensive and stupid.