My favorite one of these (included in the FIRE database!) was a guy disciplined for refusing to produce a syllabus for his class.

He claimed that being asked to fulfill his basic job functions was an attack on his academic freedom.

And of course "cancellation" is more often than not a slap on the wrist, if even that.

A "cancelled academic" is almost always someone who is 1) a sex pest/harasser/assaulter; 2) an avowed white supremacist; and/or 3) someone who kept breaking some institutional policy, was given a thousand chances to stop, but refused.

not only was this predictable from the moment he took office, it should have been expected. and yet a constellation of “serious” and “savvy” observers insisted that we were living through a realignment

Karp's book is very good, especially on how the loss of control of America's foreign policy was very important to southern-decision making.

That and they had decisively lost control of the federal government, could see the national demographics and economics running against them but were, at the same time, riding high after a few years of high cotton prices. In many ways, they thought it was a now or never moment.