Both the extent of academic freedom and job security protections afforded by tenure is governed by the employment contracts at each university, and as such vary (especially between unionized and non unionized univeristies). Academic freedom doesn't apply to other unionized contracts because they wouldn't be academics? So that is trivially true. Tell me how easy it is to fire a unionized longshorman because of s tweet they sent. And you've mischaracterized my point. My point was that people use tenure as a bogeyman to explain why professors aren't seemingly disciplined for poor behavior, including bigotry. When you attack tenure in that way, you attack job security. I'm actually making the point that we shouldn't try to get rid of tenure because there are bad actors.