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Chris Rickert: Tenure comes with responsibility to rise above the din

UW-Madison professor Sara Goldrick-Rab’s tweets comparing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to Adolf Hitler and suggesting the governor and “many” state lawmakers are “fascists” are the kind of thing you’d expect to see in anonymous online comment sections and other gutters of the Internet.

So it’s a good thing her colleagues at the university are willing to stand up for a smarter, more civilized form of political discourse.