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The #ProfessorWatchlist website invited college students not to engage in robust discussions with others with different ideologies, but to #report #professors who “advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”
The site includes photos of professors, along with often highly misleading summaries of the #ThoughtCrimes that landed them on the list.
It provides the telephone numbers of the #universities that employ them for students & parents to register their complaints. While the site claims the organization supports #FreeSpeech, many #professors have recounted enduring campaigns of #harassment after being put on the list. (Nikole Hannah-Jones was placed on it in 2021 because of her work on the #1619Project, after it was announced that she would be a professor at Howard University.)
A couple of years ago, Angel Jones, now a professor at a #university in Maryland whose work focuses on educational #inequality, joined the hundreds of #professors across the country who found themselves on the list.
Jones landed on it under the tag “racial ideology” when she published an article citing research about how distressing it is for #Black people to go to work after witnessing news coverage of #police #killings.
It provides the telephone numbers of the #universities that employ them for students & parents to register their complaints. While the site claims the organization supports #FreeSpeech, many #professors have recounted enduring campaigns of #harassment after being put on the list. (Nikole Hannah-Jones was placed on it in 2021 because of her work on the #1619Project, after it was announced that she would be a professor at Howard University.)
#Kirk certainly produced viral moments by showing up on college campuses & inviting students a decade his junior to “prove” him wrong about a range of controversial topics such as #Black crime rates & the pitfalls of #feminism. But his rise to fame was predicated on the organization for which he served as executive director, #TurningPointUSA, & its #ProfessorWatchlist.
The #ProfessorWatchlist website invited college students not to engage in robust discussions with others with different ideologies, but to #report #professors who “advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”
The site includes photos of professors, along with often highly misleading summaries of the #ThoughtCrimes that landed them on the list.
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