According to Turning Point USA, I am one of two hundred professors, “who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” Consequently, by way of its dubious Professor Watchlist, TPUSA contends that its purpose is to inform alumni, parents, and students of, “specific incidents and names of professors that advance a radical agenda in lecture halls.”
But TPUSA’s insidious real aim is to intimidate and single out educators. This complements President-elect Donald Trump’s rising number of like registries for their faith, in the case of Muslims, journalists, and employees within the State Department and Department of Energy who advocate, respectively, for the rights of women and the LGBT community as well as the health of our planet.
The creation of lists that target intellectuals and educators echoes loudly in history. One reverberation is described by historian Karl Dietrich Bracher in his classic work The German Dictatorship: The Origins, Structure and Effects of National Socialism (1970). Another is in the movie the Killing Fields (1984) based on New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg’s coverage of Cambodia’s civil war […]
G’mornin’ Stephan,
There has been conjecture in some circles, that shortly after JFK gave a public speech of not being in favour of secret societies, Jackie became a widow. I believe that the American corporations who pushed for the original FTA (US + Canada) which then morphed into NAFTA (+ Mexico) and then the failed FTAA, will not tolerate anyone **messing with their profits**. It was corporate lawyers acting on behalf of their oligarch bosses that came up with the TPP, which as we now know is dead in the water like the FTAA back in 2001. Yesterday, CBC News here in Canada, ran a report that said Mr. Trump was going to slap a 20% tariff on Mexican imports to the USA. This would quite obviously give a great boon as a handout to Chinese imports and other countries. Mr. Trump’s policy of “America First” is not new. It has been the way the US government, again on behalf of its oligarch bosses, has always acted economically. Does the man want Melania to be a widow this quickly?
John
This is no worse than the list of fake new sites created by some obscure assistant professor and heavily promoted by the big media.
In the age of political correctness education has largely become a process of indoctrination.
They talk about academic freedom but they practice oppression of dissenting views.
Where did you go to college? I have taught at several excellent liberal arts colleges and your claims have no connection to reality. Yes- departments have perspectives they believe are true and the same goes for professors. But good teaching only requires being fair to alternative points of view and exposing students to them. I call you to prove your claims about college education in general..