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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."
The site, called
Professor Watchlist, is not without precedent -- predecessors include the now-defunct
NoIndoctrination.org, which logged accounts of alleged bias in the classroom. There's also David Horowitz's 2006
book,
The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. But such efforts arguably have new meaning in an era of talk about registering certain social groups and concerns about free speech.
At the same time, the new list has attracted Twitter jokesters under the hashtag
#trollprofwatchlist, with complaints about Indiana Jones, Professor Plum of "Clue University," and Gilderoy Lockhart from
Harry Potter's Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, among others.
Professor Watchlist, launched Monday, is a project of Turning Point USA.
The group's mission is to "identify, educate, train and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government."
Its national college and university field program works to "identify young conservative activists, build and maintain effective student groups, advertise and rebrand conservative values, engage in face-to-face and peer-to-peer conversations about the pressing issues facing our country," according to its website.
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