The academic freedom tankies support Cofnas by introducing a hard – and artificial – distinction between his plagiarism findings and his scientific racism which they treat as two issues to be discussed and judged separately. Meanwhile, this is in his plagiarism post. They are not separate issues:
There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.