{"id":280845,"date":"2016-11-24T07:08:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T06:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-college-professor-watchlist-aims-to-expose-professors-who-advance-leftist-propaganda\/"},"modified":"2016-11-24T07:08:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T06:08:52","slug":"new-college-professor-watchlist-aims-to-expose-professors-who-advance-leftist-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-college-professor-watchlist-aims-to-expose-professors-who-advance-leftist-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"New College Professor 'Watchlist' Aims To Expose Professors Who 'Advance Leftist Propaganda'"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new website is asking students and others to \u201cexpose and document\u201d professors who \u201cdiscriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

At the same time, the new list has attracted Twitter jokesters under the hashtag #trollprofwatchlist<\/a>, with complaints about Indiana Jones, Professor Plum of “Clue University,” and Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry Potter<\/em>‘s Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, among others.<\/p>\n

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Crazy radical professor at your school?<\/p>\n

CHECK OUT “Professor WatchList”https:\/\/t.co\/ONVzq70vUJ<\/a> <\/p>\n

Submit your professors on the site! pic.twitter.com\/H2O8WnfUvW<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Professor Watchlist, launched Monday, is a project of Turning Point USA. The group\u2019s mission is to \u201cidentify, educate, train and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government.\u201d Its national college and university field program works to \u201cidentify young conservative activists, build and maintain effective…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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