If you got a blacklist, I want to be on it! Professor Watchlist wants YOU! And me! And your office mate!

From Inside Higher Ed:

Being Watched

New website seeks to register professors accused of liberal bias and “anti-American values.”
By Colleen Flaherty November 22, 2016

excerpt:

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.”
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In a write-up of the project, Kirk said, “It’s no secret that some of America’s college professors are totally out of line” and that he often hears stories about “professors who attack and target conservatives, promote liberal propaganda and use their position of power to advance liberal agendas in their classroom. Turning Point USA is saying enough is enough. It’s time we expose these professors.”

To read the article in its entirety, click here.

Then we at Dissent suggest going over to Professor Watchlist and turning yourself in.

As Billy Bragg sings, "If you got a blacklist, I want to be on it."

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Chemerinsky in the OC Register: "for the next four years there will be a president who ran a campaign on racism and who expresses misogyny in his words and his acts"

Roquemore and Chemerinsky at IVC's 2016 commencement. 

from the OC Register:

For those who fear Trump, there’s only one option

Nov. 17, 2016
Updated Nov. 21, 2016 9:00 a.m.

By ERWIN CHEMERINSKY/ Contributing columnist

excerpt:

What do I tell my law students who feel despair at the election of Donald Trump as president and fear what it will mean for the law and the legal system? What do I tell my 22-year-old son who seriously wonders whether it is time to leave the country?
I try to tell them the institutions of American government are resilient and will protect our most cherished values, including the rule of law....

....I try to tell them the country has had a variety of different kinds of presidents before, and the pendulum swings back. Twelve years of Ronald Reagan and George Bush were followed by eight years of Bill Clinton; eight years of George W. Bush, followed by eight years of Obama. I try to reassure them that this too shall pass.

But then I realize that Reagan and George W. Bush had been governors of California and Texas respectively, the two largest states in the country. Trump is the least qualified person ever elected president. I remember that Reagan and Bush at least nodded to compassion. Reagan spoke of preserving a “safety net” for the less fortunate. Bush promised compassionate conservativism. I cannot find a shred of such rhetoric from Trump or those who supported him.....

To read the essay in its entirety, click here.