“I am dangerous not to America but to the people soon to be in charge of it.”
So says one of roughly 200 college professors recently named to a conservative website’s “Professor Watchlist”—a round-up of academics accused of “discriminat[ing] against conservative students and advanc[ing] leftist propaganda in the classroom.” The list is based on “pre-existing news stories,” though readers are encouraged to “submit a tip” if they become aware of “professors that advance a radical agenda in lecture halls.”
The list, which first appeared on November 21, is a project of right-wing non-profit Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a group whose stated mission “is to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government.”
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According to a blog post written by the organization’s founder and executive director Charlie Kirk: “Throughout the next 120 days, Turning Point USA will be running ads to make sure students, faculty, and administrators see that these professors made the Professor Watchlist…We believe these people need to be exposed.”
Earlier this month, in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential win, Kirk told Fox host Sean Hannity that the surprise victory was in part due to “the political correctness wave that swept across this country.”
“Donald Trump was so effective at being able to speak to middle Americans that are fed up with the safe space-spreading on college campuses, the microaggressions, the trigger warnings,” the young conservative said. “College has become a place where they want everyone to look different but think the same.”
But in the context of a Trump administration, Kirk’s watchlist has been decried as “irresponsible,” “frightening,” and “poised to inflame the tinder-dry, gasoline-soaked pitchforks of a mob that has just stepped boldly into the light.”
As longtime University of Texas at Austin journalism professor Robert Jensen wrote of his inclusion on the watchlist:
“The president-elect’s clear lack of respect for the First Amendment and one of his surrogates calling internment camps a ‘precedent’ for a national Muslim registry makes the existence of such a list chilling and dangerous,” Ashley Dejean wrote for Fusion.
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