While we slumber… Behold “Turning Point USA"! http://citizenschallenge.blogspot.com/2016/12/turningpointusa-vandalizing-honest.html Steadfastly building a movement hell bend on keeping tabs on all non-faith-based academics they don’t like, with the promise of future intimidations. Of course, they don’t audit the reactionaries, or people who’ve convinced themselves that our self-centered, body bound human brains are actually in personal direct communication with the God of Time and Creation, Life and Love, and that this personal conviction justifies ignoring all objective evidence that doesn’t fit into their self-certain personal dogma - something that is human egomania and hubris taken to it’s ultimate extreme. If you count yourself a rationalist who respects the constructive learning process that is serious science and academia, … If you count yourself amongst the humanists who care about respecting diversity and you believe in cooperation among peoples, and dealing with the world that is, … If you like “progressive" ideas, etc. here is yet another extreme right-wing group who wants to mortally damage all you believe in as part of their personal conviction of being god’s own warriors. Here’s an example of the witch hunts they are already conducting within serous learning institutions throughout our country, with far worse coming our way in the very near future. You’d better get prepared! Professor Watchlist is a project of TP USA*. The mission of Professor Watchlist is to expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom. This website is an aggregated list of pre-existing news stories that were published by a variety of news organizations throughout the past few years. While we accept tips for new additions on our website, we only publish profiles on incidents that have already been reported somewhere else. TP USA will continue to fight for free speech and the right for professors to say whatever they wish ; however students, parents, and alumni deserve to know the specific incidents and names of professors that advance a radical agenda in lecture halls. TP USA will continue to fight for free speech and the right for professors to say whatever they wish. Just remember their “free speech" demands attacking and trying to deny your right to Free Speech and fact based constructive learning ! They have done one heck of a job of singling out all outspoken academics for profiling in the most extreme manner possible, randomly going down the list I find things said I certainly don’t approve of, but it’s also very clear that this is a one-sided prosecution effort and has nothing to do with rationally auditing or understanding what any of these professors was trying to convey. I mean taking first day introductory talks were professors regularly inform their students of their own biases so that students have a better frame of reference as the instruction continues - always seemed like a very honorable American approach - but these paranoid souls see everything as a personal attack. Or perhaps they are the ones who want to muzzle everyone else? Think about it. And what of this FREE SPEECH these right-wingers go on about? To neo-Republicans of all strips, free speech has come to mean that it’s okay to ignore real objective observable facts and replace them with transparent fictions. That is Free Speech to them. Sounds like crazy to me. But if a professor is honest enough to admit to their grown up students that personally they can't stand Republicans, that talk they want to muzzle and dream of someday prosecuting. Never the slightest consideration, that there’s more to these stories or that some of these issue should be openly discussed. Nope, it’s all very melodramatic us vs. them. Wake up you American rationalists, and leftie nerdy folks, and humanists, and greenies, time to get off the sidelines - We just opened all the gates and the vandals are getting ready to storm the village. This is not drill! This is not a joke! This is not another Hollywood blockbuster! This is not another time to leave it to someone else! You have your part to play, even if you don't understand it yet. Get out there, learn about what's going on, your course will become clear to you. Right now, is the time to up and get informed, engaged, and confrontational about saving American Values and Institutes that we struggled long and hard to create for blessed good reasons! If you don’t do it, those are lost. No kidding. Democracy use it or lose it. A healthy democracy demands an informed and engaged public - all of us. The oligarchs have their game plan, and their troops, they will be receiving the power to do irreparable damage in a matter of weeks. Look at them, they are chomping at the bit. What are we doing? Americans it’s our move._____________________________________________________________________ Monitoring the Impact of the Trump Presidency on Science http://questions.sciencedebate.org/forums/562990-monitoring-the-impact-of-the-trump-presidency-on-s
Professor Watchlist' Monitors 'Anti-American,' 'Leftist' Educators Conservative group Turning Point USA created the web site 'Professor Watchlist' to draw attention to purportedly biased college educators. Kim LaCapria | Nov 22, 2016 http://www.snopes.com/2016/11/22/professor-watchlist-monitors-anti-american-leftist-educators/ On 21 November 2016, political group Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk (a 22-year-old conservative wunderkind from Illinois who has attracted the attention of various political players, including investor Foster Friess) announced a new web site called the "Professor Watchlist," aimed at monitoring purported bias in the college classroom:
"American" meaning conservative Republican, "anti-American" meaning liberal. American vs anti-American all depends on whose ox is being gored, doesn't it?Professor Watchlist' Monitors 'Anti-American,' 'Leftist' Educators Conservative group Turning Point USA created the web site 'Professor Watchlist' to draw attention to purportedly biased college educators. Kim LaCapria | Nov 22, 2016 http://www.snopes.com/2016/11/22/professor-watchlist-monitors-anti-american-leftist-educators/ On 21 November 2016, political group Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk (a 22-year-old conservative wunderkind from Illinois who has attracted the attention of various political players, including investor Foster Friess) announced a new web site called the "Professor Watchlist," aimed at monitoring purported bias in the college classroom:
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Frightened by Donald Trump? You don’t know the half of it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/30/donald-trump-george-monbiot-misinformation George Monbiot | November 30, 2016 | The Guardian Yes, Donald Trump’s politics are incoherent. But those who surround him know just what they want, and his lack of clarity enhances their power. To understand what is coming, we need to understand who they are. I know all too well, because I have spent the past 15 years fighting them. Over this time, I have watched as tobacco, coal, oil, chemicals and biotech companies have poured billions of dollars into an international misinformation machine composed of thinktanks, bloggers and fake citizens’ groups. Its purpose is to portray the interests of billionaires as the interests of the common people, to wage war against trade unions and beat down attempts to regulate business and tax the very rich. Now the people who helped run this machine are shaping the government. I first encountered the machine when writing about climate change. The fury and loathing directed at climate scientists and campaigners seemed incomprehensible until I realised they were fake: the hatred had been paid for. The bloggers and institutes whipping up this anger were funded by oil and coal companies. Among those I clashed with was Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). The CEI calls itself a thinktank, but looks to me like a corporate lobbying group. It is not transparent about its funding, but we now know it has received $2m from ExxonMobil, more than $4m from a group called the Donors Trust (which represents various corporations and billionaires), $800,000 from groups set up by the tycoons Charles and David Koch, and substantial sums from coal, tobacco and pharmaceutical companies. For years, Ebell and the CEI have attacked efforts to limit climate change, through lobbying, lawsuits and campaigns. An advertisement released by the institute had the punchline “Carbon dioxide: they call it pollution. We call it life." . . .Hello, anyone out there? Hiding from what's coming is only going to make it worse. http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/12/petition-electoral-college-roger-wolfson.html