""While I respect his freedom of speech, I think at some point we cannot allow professors to hide behind the curtain of "academic freedom" and "freedom of speech.""
From what I can see, Ethnic studies is not a discipline. It seems to be merely opinion. I had thought it was similar to anthropology, but it isn't.
I suppose anyone with the correct radical views and nonsensical statements can "create" a degree(?) program based on very sketchy ideas.
Maybe it is modern finite evolutionism -study based upon observable differences resulting in subjective conclusion?