In wake of the social media fallout, sources from within the University of Calgary have come forward to The Post Millennial to assert that McCoy's comments were anything but a joke. The identities of those who spoke out are being protected for their safety due to their proximity to McCoy.
"He absolutely was not kidding. He absolutely does penalize students for holding divergent views." Said one source, a former professor at the University of Calgary and current professor at another institution.
"He literally tells students to not read Quillette," the source revealed, drawing from discussions had with McCoy's students, "He's walked into class and expressed how disappointed he was in the amount of conservative ideas being expressed."
The source noted that students often came to her with complaints about McCoy's in-class political proselytizing, fearing poor grades because of their ideological differences.
"Students have just learned to shut-up and parrot whatever he wants to hear." The source revealed that McCoy was the only professor teaching a mandatory capstone exit course required for some students' successful degree completion in the Law and Society program.
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