On one hand, it is refreshing you personally care so much about this. On the other hand, it is really frightening you think you may be having a harder time getting into grad school (don't take it personally, it is more a zeitgeist statement). You surely made it clear you do not want to work with him in the future, but having published something with him will not affect your career: you are too much at the bottom of the ladder for having anyone thinking you are responsible for anything he said.

I suggest that you do not use your real name in these kind of posts (your supervisor might find your question), and maybe also not the name of the journal/conference, but rather a description of its quality/size.

What topic is your research on? It shouldn't matter too much, but if you're in e.g. gender studies, people will look at it differently compared to when you're in a STEM field.

@Jeroen neurological activity while in VR. My main duty was writing and maintaining software for the study.

No worries, luckily in the academia and in science the attitude is still "what you do, not what you think" ... yes, you sometimes realize some people have views different than yours, sometimes even unacceptable views, but in my opinion it is still better than censorship. agree about @Mark comment about using your real name sparingly on the internet.

Long interesting discussion here of a (not closely) related situation: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/02/12/…

Not being able to review the lecture that has caused you such consternation, I am in no position to judge it. However, I urge you to be careful about making emotional responses to academic arguments, which you may be tempted to do when you find their conclusions disagreeable or challenging. I especially urge you to bear in mind that reasonable people can disagree, even about major topics, without personal animosity.

Surely one obvious consideration is whether supervisor is likely to get suspended, fired or boycotted from conferences, which depends on the country and institution (public, private or other) - OP hasn't said which.

I'm a bit shocked a professor did that lecture anytime in the last 5 years and it didn't immediately become a national story.

Are you 100% sure it is the same person? It wouldn't be the first case of lynching the wrong person (I'm not an American fighter of Mexican descent, if you are wondering).

How does your supervisor compare to JoAnne Hewett's favorite "Uncle Chuck"?

@JohnBollinger 'Academic arguments' such as 'gay people are sick (and need to be cured)' or 'people of race X are less intelligent (and need to be subjugated)' may be an interesting discussion for some. Others don't have that luxury as the attacks may indeed be personal. And in either case, such arguments cannot be separated from their real-world application; it's never 'just an academic argument'.

@tim, an "academic argument" relies on shared definitions of terms and premises, and presents a chain of reasoning supporting a conclusion based on observed evidence. This is typical of lectures that an academician makes to an academic audience, and your examples are nowhere near meeting this definition. The point of presenting such an argument is rarely just to have an interesting discussion, and emotion-centered responses to such arguments are unlikely to have enduring benefit either personally or from an advocacy perspective.

Diego, I read that during the Iraq war, some people in the USA burnt down the house of a US citizen named Saddam Hussein.

So this is what science has come to? Holding a scientific view that makes others uncomfortable gets you labelled a "bigot" and you have to be "scared" to be associated with sb who dares to view things differently than the mainstream?

@csstudent1418: Mainstream cultures usually have values that they don't like questioned, and scientists don't get a pass.