Whether “the system” won’t punish you depends on which system. If you’re in academia or paid-by-feds research (e.g. NIH), I would expect the system to punish you (not necessarily in immediately obvious ways).
I guess that depends on whether you are in the humanities or the hard sciences. I’ve heard several maths professors often making politically incorrect remarks and jokes in lectures where they couldn’t have known that nobody was recording them. You wouldn’t speak out against Socialism in a similar venue in the Soviet Union. (Or are web forums held to a higher standard than university lectures?)
I guess that depends on whether you are in the humanities or the hard sciences.
That’s probably true. I suspect it also depends on whether you are a tenured professor, rather hard to dislodge, or a mere tenure-track larva terrified of not getting tenure...
I guess that depends on whether you are in the humanities or the hard sciences. I’ve heard several maths professors often making politically incorrect remarks and jokes in lectures where they couldn’t have known that nobody was recording them. You wouldn’t speak out against Socialism in a similar venue in the Soviet Union. (Or are web forums held to a higher standard than university lectures?)
That’s probably true. I suspect it also depends on whether you are a tenured professor, rather hard to dislodge, or a mere tenure-track larva terrified of not getting tenure...