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Professor Watchlist: be afraid.

Rejected submission by aristarchus at 2016-12-08 07:45:15
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Turning Point USA, a group of concerned uneducated people who are concerned that they might not be getting educated, since what they are being taught does not agree with their uneducated opinions! has created a watchlist [professorwatchlist.org] of bad professors. This has be a long and persistent problem among the ignorant, when they have to go to school and learn stuff. On of my favorite books was "How to Stay Christian in College" by J. Budziszewski. Of course, the Jesuits really took offense at the idea that college was a threat to faith, since they run several universities.

But now we have caught up to the modern world, ignorance is going Web2.0.
The mission of "Professor Watchlist" is to expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.

Yes, there is an actual website. [professorwatchlist.org] Can you just imagine all those conservatives of very little brain, thrown into a classroom with no defenses of their archaic and untenable beliefs, faced with a professor, an authority figure who uses logic and facts and stuff? Oh, the horror! Teachers should only teach what the students want to learn, because then the students can judge how well the professors are teaching it, and the administration can collect "data". Possibly "big data". Maybe a "cloud of data". Accountability and personal ignorance.

            Predictably, much like Conserva-pedia, the whole project has gone south. Academics of all stripes (except for the most mindless trump supporters who are only faculty because their uncle is College President, or it is Liberty University, which is the same thing) have taken it as a badge of honor to be listed on the Neo-Nazi bad intellectual list. In fact, many have taken to mocking the list by suggesting candidates [twitter.com] such as Thomas Jefferson, Gandhi, and Jesus, not to mention Socrates who obviously belongs. See for an example, and if you are an academic, I suggest you get yourself on this list post haste, lest you lose your tenure for not pissing off the stupid right enough. [nytimes.com]

Watchlist: Charlie Kirk is not intelligent enough to be dangerous, but he did start this list. http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/11/30/chilling-professor-watchlist-aims-expose-leftist-educators [commondreams.org] [commondreams.org] I am watching him now.

[Self-referential Philosophy Watchlist nomination: This submission may seem partisan to the ignorant on SoylentNews, and for that I am truly sorry! I wish it were not so. But if you are among the number of our "conservatives", you have recourse! Please submit my name to the Professor Watchlist! You will both vindicate your troglodyte position while helping to preserve my credibility as a rather thinker and person of science! It's a win-win situation! Just list me as teaching at "The School of Alexandria", before it was destroyed by Christian mobs. ]


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