The most striking thing about looking back on the attack of a professor who correctly identified the threat of a Trump Presidency is that those making the attacks still don’t think they did anything wrong and see themselves as victims.
https://twitter.com/uwkenmayer/status/1350824018341994496
By way of background, Ken is a friend and co-author. He tagged me b/c I blogged & tweeted about what happened at the time as an example of the ecosystem of right wing attacks on academia
this piece @HdxAcademy: heterodoxacademy.org/blog/academic-…
& thread:
this piece @HdxAcademy: heterodoxacademy.org/blog/academic-…
& thread:
https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1088226253021302785?s=20
.@KellyMeyerhofer, a Madison reporter did something I was always tempted to do: she went back to those who drove the attack on the faculty. Rep. Dave Murphy, and a student who had worked in Paul Ryans office. madison.com/wsj/news/local…
Murphy is a serial offender. He talks about free speech but Mayer was not the first time he suggested that UW Madison would be better off removing a professor because he did not like the syllabus. He also chairs the Assembly cmmtee that oversees higher ed. nytimes.com/2017/01/09/opi… 
Murphy says he has nothing to apologize for, and if the Professor he put in the crosshairs gets death threats, he should "put his big boy pants on." I should note Murphy called on Pence not to certify the election the day before the Capitol riots, so he's not so hard on Trump.
Does the student who went on Tucker Carlson, triggering national level attention to the professor have any regrets? Nope. Even though she admits the class she took was unbiased, she still dislikes how the syllabus described Trump. She wants you to know she also received hate mail
At the time it was clear that what those attacking Mayer did not want free speech in the classroom. They wanted balance.
Now, when Mayer was proven right about the threats of Trump, they don't want factual accuracy in the classroom. They want both sides.
Now, when Mayer was proven right about the threats of Trump, they don't want factual accuracy in the classroom. They want both sides.
Reflects a fetishization of campus on the right. They believe academia wields enormous power - against them - and therefore should be subject to extraordinary accountability, incl. specialized media profiling professors like Campus Reform/College Fix.
https://twitter.com/Cmwitko/status/1350844423886811138?s=20
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