New college professor 'watchlist' aims to expose professors who 'advance leftist propaganda'

[DonViejo]

Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed
Nov. 22, 2016, 3:37 PM

A new website is asking students and others to “expose and document” professors who “discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”

The site, called Professor Watchlist, is not without precedent -- predecessors include the now-defunct NoIndoctrination.org, which logged accounts of alleged bias in the classroom. There's also David Horowitz's 2006 book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. But such efforts arguably have new meaning in an era of talk about registering certain social groups and concerns about free speech.

At the same time, the new list has attracted Twitter jokesters under the hashtag #trollprofwatchlist, with complaints about Indiana Jones, Professor Plum of "Clue University," and Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry Potter's Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, among others.

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Professor Watchlist, launched Monday, is a project of Turning Point USA. The group’s mission is to “identify, educate, train and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government.” Its national college and university field program works to “identify young conservative activists, build and maintain effective student groups, advertise and rebrand conservative values, engage in face-to-face and peer-to-peer conversations about the pressing issues facing our country,” according to its website.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/college-professor-watchlist-expose-professors-who-advance-leftist-propaganda-2016-11?IR=T

[Initech]

1. First they came for the press, and I did not watch.

Then they came for academics, and I did not watch.

[mnhtnbb]

2. You can search by school

to see the professors already identified. Two of the three professors on their list for two well known public universities I looked at were there for reasons of racism/white supremacy.

This is scary.

[Tanuki]

3. No surprise this disgusting enterprise is funded by Foster "aspirin between their knees" Friess.

http://www.tpusa.com/advisory-council/foster-friess/
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/02/foster-friess-in-my-day-gals-put-aspirin-between-their-knees-for-contraception-114730#ixzz3rgSyFrR5

"Foster Friess, the mega donor behind the pro-Rick Santorum Super PAC, dismissed questions about his patron’s controversial views on women in combat, contraception and gay marriage.

“Here we have millions of our fellow Americans unemployed. We have jihadist camps being set up in Latin America, which Rick has been warning about, and people seem to be so preoccupied with sex. I think it says something about our culture," he said. "We maybe need a massive therapy session so we can concentrate on what the real issues are.”

He went on: “On this contraceptive thing, my Gosh it’s such [sic] inexpensive,” he added. “You know, back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn’t that costly.”
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More about Friess, including his big gifts to Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller and the anti-public education organization All Children Matter, which has been in the news recently in connection to Betsy DeVos :
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Foster_Friess
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The organization mentioned in the OP is also a recipient of funding from the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. More about their relationship to ALEC, the Kochs, and a rogues' gallery of recipients including the Heritage Foundation, Cato, etc,:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Vernon_K._Krieble_Foundation

[dembotoz]

4. Make the naughty list by saying it is good Lincoln freed the slaves

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Oh dear God. Nt

[Jim__]

6. 'professors who discriminate against conservative students' - yea, by demanding accurate answers.

As everyone knows, reality has a definite liberal bias.

[Frustratedlady]

7. Could this be Koch-funded?

Remember when the Kochs were donating to universities but only give if the university hired "Koch-approved" professors in business/economics courses to carry on their strategies? I seem to recall some turned down the offer and then you didn't hear much about it.

Speaking of...you sure don't hear much about the Kochs, these days.

[mainer]

8. Haha James Tracy of Florida Atlantic U is on there

He's the RW guy who says the Newtown massacre didn't happen. Maybe students are already subverting the site by sending in names of right-wingers?

[Silver Gaia]

9. Many of the professors I know are treating this as a joke. They are gleefully nominating each other,

and see it as a badge of honor to be listed.

[NightWatcher]

10. This un done said the Earf is round.

[groundloop]

11. Here's one who's supposedly un-American because he dared criticize tRump (and telling the truth):

Dr. Arthur Caplan is a Distinguished Professor of Bioethics at New York University. Caplan argued in 2015 that Trump’s tactics for gaining support was just like Hitler’s! Caplan argued, according to Campus Reform that Trump’s immigration plan “should be viewed in the repugnant tradition of Hitler.” He told Campus Reform “The greatest danger is that a man willing to use racism to gain political support gets elected and then shapes his policies on poverty, immigration, criminal justice and jobs on the basis of his blatantly and dangerous racist views.”

[Takket]

12. may as well put all professors on there

educated people have a "nasty habit" of becoming liberal. that's kind of a byproduct of looking at facts and coming to a rational conclusion, which is why the GOP detests academia so much.

[melm00se]

13. What goes around comes around

Back when I went to college (1980's), this was a rallying cry....it went nowhere.