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<a href="https://www.uwb.edu/education/faculty-staff/wayneau" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Wayne Au</a> is a Professor in the <a href="https://www.uwb.edu/education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School of Educational Studies</a> at the <a href="https://www.uwb.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Washington-Bothell</a>. His role exerts direct influence over future teachers and educators that graduate from the program. According to his University bio, Dr. Au’s courses and scholarship is centered around, “educational policy studies, critical education theory, and teaching for social justice.” His professional duties further showcase his commitment to insert social justice and left-wing topics into curriculums that are used in classrooms across the country.
Dr. Au is currently listed as an educator and board member for Rethinking Schools. The organization is dedicated to <a href="https://rethinkingschools.org/about-rethinking-schools/our-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promoting “equity and racial justice” in classrooms and strengthening education through “social justice activism.”</a> It was founded in 1986 after a group of activists deemed educational curriculums “too conservative” and racially biased. The organization is a staunch opponent of school choice, and they openly boast of, “sounding the alarm on private/charter school vouchers.”
Rethinking Schools’ <a href="https://rethinkingschools.org/books/a-peoples-history-for-the-classroom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most well-known initiative is “The Zinn Education Project.</a>” Through free History lessons, classroom exercises, and publicly available teaching manuals, the project <a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seeks to provide an alternative, left-leaning approach to education for teachers to provide to students</a>.
Howard Zinn was a left-leaning historian and author who was <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/fbi-history-howard-zinn-10752.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspected of belonging to a number of Communist and Soviet-front groups during the 1950s</a>. His most recognized work, “<a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/peoples-history-of-the-united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A People’s History of the United States</a>,” has sold millions of copies and is a frequently assigned reading in college classrooms. The book—which depicts America as a society founded on slavery and genocide and the aftermath of both reverberating to the present day—<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/08/debunking-left-wing-historian-howard-zinn-is-like-shooting-fish-in-a-barrel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been lambasted for its slanted and inaccurate portrayal of American society</a>.
The Howard Zinn Project grounds its activist approach to history and teaching on Howard Zinn’s work, specifically “A People’s History of the United States.” The website for the project <a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasts a network of 130,000 teachers and a growth of 10,000 new teachers</a> per year.
Dr. Au creates, writes, and helps distribute materials and lesson plans to teachers on behalf of the Zinn Education Project. Many of these resources direct teachers to introduce far-left topics and racially-laden curriculum into the classroom. Several documents produced by Dr. Au include lesson plans that <a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/black-panthers-ten-point-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extol the Marxist Black Panther Party</a>, manuals on educating students about “<a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/teachers-vs-climate-change-teachers-work-for-climate-justice-portland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate justice,”</a> and teaching “<a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/rethinking-multicultural-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racial and cultural justice</a>.”
A paper co-edited by Dr. Au is titled, “<a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/teaching-black-lives/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Teaching for Black Lives</a>.” The document is over 300 pages long and consists of lesson plans on the Black Lives Matter movement, Black Liberation, and “teaching blackness.” According to a summary listed on the official site, the guide is to be used for educators to make their classrooms sites of “resistance” to “white supremacy and anti-blackness.”
According to a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study conducted by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)</a>, BLM can be linked to 95% of the riots around the country–notably in Summer 2020 following the death of George Floyd. In an analysis of the study, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Federalist</a> found, “of the 633 incidents coded as riots, 88 percent are recorded as involving Black Lives Matter Activists.” The resulting riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>
Dr. Au is the author of a separate book titled, “<a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1153-a-marxist-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Marxist Education.</a>” In it, he states his intention to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=10969" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assist teachers in resisting “capitalism” and the “patriarchy” in their respective classrooms</a>.
In an interview for The Progressive about the book, Dr. Au <a href="https://progressive.org/latest/deeper-critical-consciousness-in-education-Wayne-Au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urges teachers to be “anti-racist” and urges them to use their positions to fight “settler colonialism.</a>”
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The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Au for comment but did not receive a reply by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.uwb.edu/education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School of Educational Studies</a> at the University of Wisconsin-Bothell at (425) 352-5411 at uwbses@uw.edu
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Updated &#8211; November 18, 2021

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<a href="https://www.uwb.edu/education/faculty-staff/wayneau" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Wayne Au</a> is a Professor in the <a href="https://www.uwb.edu/education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School of Educational Studies</a> at the <a href="https://www.uwb.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Washington-Bothell</a>. His role exerts direct influence over future teachers and educators that graduate from the program. According to his University bio, Dr. Au’s courses and scholarship is centered around, “educational policy studies, critical education theory, and teaching for social justice.” His professional duties further showcase his commitment to insert social justice and left-wing topics into curriculums that are used in classrooms across the country.

Dr. Au is currently listed as an educator and board member for Rethinking Schools. The organization is dedicated to <a href="https://rethinkingschools.org/about-rethinking-schools/our-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promoting “equity and racial justice” in classrooms and strengthening education through “social justice activism.”</a> It was founded in 1986 after a group of activists deemed educational curriculums “too conservative” and racially biased. The organization is a staunch opponent of school choice, and they openly boast of, “sounding the alarm on private/charter school vouchers.”

Rethinking Schools’ <a href="https://rethinkingschools.org/books/a-peoples-history-for-the-classroom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most well-known initiative is “The Zinn Education Project.</a>” Through free History lessons, classroom exercises, and publicly available teaching manuals, the project <a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seeks to provide an alternative, left-leaning approach to education for teachers to provide to students</a>.

Howard Zinn was a left-leaning historian and author who was <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/fbi-history-howard-zinn-10752.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspected of belonging to a number of Communist and Soviet-front groups during the 1950s</a>. His most recognized work, “<a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/peoples-history-of-the-united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A People’s History of the United States</a>,” has sold millions of copies and is a frequently assigned reading in college classrooms. The book—which depicts America as a society founded on slavery and genocide and the aftermath of both reverberating to the present day—<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/08/debunking-left-wing-historian-howard-zinn-is-like-shooting-fish-in-a-barrel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been lambasted for its slanted and inaccurate portrayal of American society</a>.

The Howard Zinn Project grounds its activist approach to history and teaching on Howard Zinn’s work, specifically “A People’s History of the United States.” The website for the project <a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasts a network of 130,000 teachers and a growth of 10,000 new teachers</a> per year.

Dr. Au creates, writes, and helps distribute materials and lesson plans to teachers on behalf of the Zinn Education Project. Many of these resources direct teachers to introduce far-left topics and racially-laden curriculum into the classroom. Several documents produced by Dr. Au include lesson plans that <a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/black-panthers-ten-point-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extol the Marxist Black Panther Party</a>, manuals on educating students about “<a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/teachers-vs-climate-change-teachers-work-for-climate-justice-portland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate justice,”</a> and teaching “<a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/rethinking-multicultural-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racial and cultural justice</a>.”

A paper co-edited by Dr. Au is titled, “<a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/teaching-black-lives/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Teaching for Black Lives</a>.” The document is over 300 pages long and consists of lesson plans on the Black Lives Matter movement, Black Liberation, and “teaching blackness.” According to a summary listed on the official site, the guide is to be used for educators to make their classrooms sites of “resistance” to “white supremacy and anti-blackness.”

According to a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study conducted by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)</a>, BLM can be linked to 95% of the riots around the country–notably in Summer 2020 following the death of George Floyd. In an analysis of the study, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Federalist</a> found, “of the 633 incidents coded as riots, 88 percent are recorded as involving Black Lives Matter Activists.” The resulting riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>

Dr. Au is the author of a separate book titled, “<a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1153-a-marxist-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Marxist Education.</a>” In it, he states his intention to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=10969" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assist teachers in resisting “capitalism” and the “patriarchy” in their respective classrooms</a>.

In an interview for The Progressive about the book, Dr. Au <a href="https://progressive.org/latest/deeper-critical-consciousness-in-education-Wayne-Au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urges teachers to be “anti-racist” and urges them to use their positions to fight “settler colonialism.</a>”

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1825" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-11-18T174515.395-e1637282744598-1024x419.png" alt="" width="500" height="205" />

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Au for comment but did not receive a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.uwb.edu/education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School of Educational Studies</a> at the University of Wisconsin-Bothell at (425) 352-5411 at uwbses@uw.edu
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Updated - November 18, 2021

<a href="https://www.uwb.edu/ias/faculty-and-staff/julie-shayne" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julie Shayne</a> is an Adjunct Teaching Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington Bothell.

Shayne authored a 2020 article for Ms. Magazine titled, “<a href="https://msmagazine.com/2020/11/16/79-million-nos-mean-no-trump-rape-sexual-assault/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">80 Million No’s Mean No</a>.” In this piece, she states, “Trump’s fabricated narrative that this election was stolen from him is strikingly similar to a rapist’s upside down view that no means yes.”

She adds, “For me, the anxiety the prospect of his re-election caused took many physical forms, including nausea that felt like a razor in my stomach which made it impossible to eat.” According to Shayne, “my fourteen-year old son observed before the election was over, Trump needed to lose so I could purge him from my body: He was clearly a bacteria preventing me from eating.”

She also claims that Trump's election to president in the first place is a “massive global metaphor for rape culture.” According to the professor, “I cried myself to sleep the Saturday before the election. I could not stop thinking about the prospect of having a man with a decades-long record of women and girls accusing him of sexual assault—including rape—re-elected president.” She believes that Trump will not be able to dodge accountability once he is out of office and hints at damning evidence of Trump's record of sexual violence.

Shayne discusses the field of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) in an article titled, “<a href="https://msmagazine.com/2020/02/24/i-cant-believe-im-still-making-the-case-for-gender-women-sexuality-studies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Trump Era Proves That Women’s Studies Matters</a>.” She writes, “GWSS scholars, faculty, students, librarians and staff are running full speed—creating a living archive which responds to the violent, Trump-fueled misogynist, white supremacist, xenophobic era in which we are now submerged.”

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Published - December 28, 2022

Racial Ideology

Socialism

Climate Alarmist

Wayne Au

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Adam Kotsko

<a href="https://www.northcentralcollege.edu/profile/akotsko">Adam Kotsko</a> is an associate visiting professor at North Central College, formerly known as Shimer College. According to the North Central College website, Adam teaches in the humanities and social sciences, and his research focuses on political theology, continental philosophy, and the history of Christian thought.
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Censorship 
During the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Charlie-Hebdo-shooting">Charlie Hebdo Attacks</a>, Kotsko expressed sympathy towards the terrorists that committed the atrocity. In the attack, Islamic terrorists entered the building of the satirical French newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, and proceeded to murder twelve cartoonists and injure an additional eleven. The terrorists targeted the newspaper over its depictions of the Prophet Muhammed and pledged allegiance to the terrorist group ISIS.
In a deleted tweet now archived by Campus Reform, Adam expressed <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2015/01/09/lets-get-to-know-americas-stupidest-college-professor/">sympathy</a> for the terrorists, stating that the attack was no different than someone punching a Westboro Baptist preacher.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1154 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-05T162916.943-e1614987240739-1024x430.png" alt="" width="580" height="244" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-05T162916.943-e1614987240739-1024x430.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-05T162916.943-e1614987240739-300x126.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-05T162916.943-e1614987240739-768x322.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-05T162916.943-e1614987240739-1200x503.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-05T162916.943-e1614987240739.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" />
Campus Reform reports that Kotsko <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6183">offered</a> an apology for the tweet on his personal blog. Attempting to excuse his behavior, Adam claims that he believed the magazine was “exclusively” an anti-Muslim publication and initially thought the attack was just a “crime of passion.”
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Identity Politics 
On his <a href="https://twitter.com/adamkotsko?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">personal</a> Twitter account, Kotsko frequently claims that multiple aspects of our government are founded on racism. Some examples of his tweets include the following:
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1155 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-05-at-4.35.35-PM-e1614987359412.png" alt="" width="450" height="359" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-05-at-4.35.35-PM-e1614987359412.png 450w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-05-at-4.35.35-PM-e1614987359412-300x239.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" />
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-1156 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-05-at-4.37.35-PM.png" alt="" width="449" height="362" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-05-at-4.37.35-PM.png 449w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-05-at-4.37.35-PM-300x242.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px" />
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Kotsko also <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2015/07/02/white-professor-informs-white-people-they-are-all-currently-complicit-in-slavery/">claims</a> that all white people, regardless if anyone in their lineage owned slaves, are complicit in slavery.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-1157 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-05-at-4.41.55-PM.png" alt="" width="479" height="215" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-05-at-4.41.55-PM.png 479w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-05-at-4.41.55-PM-300x135.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px" />
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In a <a href="https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/white-professor-calls-all-white-people-to-mass-suicide-over-slavery/">tweet archived</a> by the Libertarian Republic, Kotsko is asked by one of his Twitter followers what white people should do next, Kotsko replies, “Commit suicide.”
Kotsko continues, stating that “whiteness” exists solely to exploit other races.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1158 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-05T164333.246-e1614987854461-1024x430.png" alt="" width="580" height="244" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-05T164333.246-e1614987854461-1024x430.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-05T164333.246-e1614987854461-300x126.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-05T164333.246-e1614987854461-768x322.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-05T164333.246-e1614987854461-1200x503.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-05T164333.246-e1614987854461.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" />
Kotsko then <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15415">states</a> that media coverage of his tweets by Campus Reform is a “pathetic attempt at harassment.”
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<a href="https://www.northcentralcollege.edu/profile/akotsko">Adam Kotsko</a> is an associate visiting professor at North Central College, formerly known as Shimer College. According to the North Central College website, Adam teaches in the humanities and social sciences, and his research focuses on political theology, continental philosophy, and the history of Christian thought.

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Censorship 
During the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Charlie-Hebdo-shooting">Charlie Hebdo Attacks</a>, Kotsko expressed sympathy towards the terrorists that committed the atrocity. In the attack, Islamic terrorists entered the building of the satirical French newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, and proceeded to murder twelve cartoonists and injure an additional eleven. The terrorists targeted the newspaper over its depictions of the Prophet Muhammed and pledged allegiance to the terrorist group ISIS.

In a deleted tweet now archived by Campus Reform, Adam expressed <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2015/01/09/lets-get-to-know-americas-stupidest-college-professor/">sympathy</a> for the terrorists, stating that the attack was no different than someone punching a Westboro Baptist preacher.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1154 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-05T162916.943-e1614987240739-1024x430.png" alt="" width="580" height="244" />

Campus Reform reports that Kotsko <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6183">offered</a> an apology for the tweet on his personal blog. Attempting to excuse his behavior, Adam claims that he believed the magazine was “exclusively” an anti-Muslim publication and initially thought the attack was just a “crime of passion.”

&nbsp;
Identity Politics 
On his <a href="https://twitter.com/adamkotsko?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">personal</a> Twitter account, Kotsko frequently claims that multiple aspects of our government are founded on racism. Some examples of his tweets include the following:

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1155 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-05-at-4.35.35-PM-e1614987359412.png" alt="" width="450" height="359" />

<img class="size-full wp-image-1156 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-05-at-4.37.35-PM.png" alt="" width="449" height="362" />

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Kotsko also <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2015/07/02/white-professor-informs-white-people-they-are-all-currently-complicit-in-slavery/">claims</a> that all white people, regardless if anyone in their lineage owned slaves, are complicit in slavery.

<img class="size-full wp-image-1157 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-05-at-4.41.55-PM.png" alt="" width="479" height="215" />

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In a <a href="https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/white-professor-calls-all-white-people-to-mass-suicide-over-slavery/">tweet archived</a> by the Libertarian Republic, Kotsko is asked by one of his Twitter followers what white people should do next, Kotsko replies, “Commit suicide.”

Kotsko continues, stating that “whiteness” exists solely to exploit other races.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1158 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-03-05T164333.246-e1614987854461-1024x430.png" alt="" width="580" height="244" />

Kotsko then <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15415">states</a> that media coverage of his tweets by Campus Reform is a “pathetic attempt at harassment.”

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<a href="https://www.csi.cuny.edu/campus-directory/cate-marvin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cate Marvin</a> is a professor at The City University of New York &#8211; College of Staten Island. In 2022, she published a book of poems titled “<a href="https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/event-horizon-by-cate-marvin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Event Horizon</a>.” The publisher’s description states: 
“Cate Marvin’s brilliant fourth poetry collection exists just outside of calamity. Set between the violent realm of patriarchy and the bright otherworld of female agency and survival, these are poems of pointed humor and quick intellect, radical exposure and (re)vision…Misogyny pulls the sheets from the bed; motherhood wails from the backseat of the car; our hero is ghosted (abandoned, haunted) by past friends and beloveds. Event Horizon asks, at what point do we disappear into our experiences? How do we come out on the other side?”
According to Marvin’s <a href="https://twitter.com/CateMarvin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1612464276047892491%7Ctwgr%5E11f8bf5763ea234f69d398a30bff3ca1eed33592%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FCateMarvin2Fstatus2F1612464276047892491widget%3DTweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter bio</a>, she is a “proud mom of [a] trans kid.” In an interview with <a href="https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-three/a-conversation-with-cate-marvin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Adroit Journal</a>, Marvin discussed the content of “Event Horizon,” much of which is concerned with patriarchy, sexism, and gender. Regarding patriarchy, she stated:  
“I also think (and worry) that while the violence you describe in my poems is intended to work against patriarchy, it does in fact stem from the patriarchy. I worry that it’s men’s anger and energy (all steeped in white supremacy) that is trying to claw its way out of the grave that is my body.”
Then she discussed the topic of sexism:
“When I think about it, exploring my experience of sexism in poetry had become familiar. I recognize now that I was stuck in that all too familiar and common cishet white woman myopia.” 
Marvin even claimed that sexism is less intense than transphobia or racism: 
“Because sexism does not, when you come right down to it, compare (in intensity) to the experience of transphobia. Or to the experience of racism. As an English professor, I had never taught literature by trans people, and here I was raising a trans kid. How did this realization affect my writing? What changes me must change my writing.”
While talking about her child, Marvin further commented on the subject of gender with the following statements:
“One thing my child has taught me…is that gender is meaningless. Or that what is meaningful about it is mean, definitely hard-wired, and a trap. Gender binaries are enormously hurtful. Even less than a year ago I had no awareness of how completely shaped I have been by gender as a construct.”
In a tweet, Marvin said she would unsubscribe from The New York Times because they hired columnist David French, a critic of the transgender movement (see tweet below).
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Time to unsubscribe . <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> MOTHER OF TRANS HUMAN 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 <a href="https://t.co/5uBbrUx78V" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/5uBbrUx78V</a>
— Cate Marvin (@CateMarvin) <a href="https://twitter.com/CateMarvin/status/1612464276047892491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Published &#8211; May 22, 2023
A syllabus from one of Marvin’s creative writing courses was provided to the Watchlist Team by an anonymous student. This syllabus includes an “Antiracism Statement.” Marvin revealed that, unlike how she taught in the past, she would decenter her literary teaching from the “white men” who contributed to the Western canon of literature to “BiPOC writers.” (see image at the bottom of the profile).
Marvin also stated that she “eliminated the hierarchy of grades,” because it “is one of many facets of white supremacy we see in academia every day.” Not declaring herself an authority on these subjects, Marvin stated she is “still learning and growing,” and realizes she is coming to understand her own “implicit racism as a white woman.” When students comment in the class, she requested them to reserve judgment when listening to each other because “we are all products of systemic racism.” 
At the end of her statement, Marvin discusses what she deems to be beneficial of “discomfort” regarding the discussion of racism:
“Most of us (especially white folx) are conditioned to not speak about it (i.e. racism) openly. Sometimes we will have to sit with our discomfort when it comes to these conversations. Discomfort can help us grow. You can expect the topic of anti-black racism will be a regular part of our conversations as we apply a critical lens to the texts we read as well as our own creative work.”
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-2986 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/46CB2509-BCCB-4800-B132-5539917FE8BE-1-1024x956.jpeg" alt="" width="640" height="598" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/46CB2509-BCCB-4800-B132-5539917FE8BE-1-1024x956.jpeg 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/46CB2509-BCCB-4800-B132-5539917FE8BE-1-300x280.jpeg 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/46CB2509-BCCB-4800-B132-5539917FE8BE-1-768x717.jpeg 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/46CB2509-BCCB-4800-B132-5539917FE8BE-1-1200x1120.jpeg 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/46CB2509-BCCB-4800-B132-5539917FE8BE-1.jpeg 1465w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />
Updated &#8211; May 26, 2023

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<a href="https://www.csi.cuny.edu/campus-directory/cate-marvin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cate Marvin</a> is a professor at The City University of New York - College of Staten Island. In 2022, she published a book of poems titled “<a href="https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/event-horizon-by-cate-marvin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Event Horizon</a>.” The publisher’s description states: 
“Cate Marvin’s brilliant fourth poetry collection exists just outside of calamity. Set between the violent realm of patriarchy and the bright otherworld of female agency and survival, these are poems of pointed humor and quick intellect, radical exposure and (re)vision…Misogyny pulls the sheets from the bed; motherhood wails from the backseat of the car; our hero is ghosted (abandoned, haunted) by past friends and beloveds. Event Horizon asks, at what point do we disappear into our experiences? How do we come out on the other side?”
According to Marvin’s <a href="https://twitter.com/CateMarvin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1612464276047892491%7Ctwgr%5E11f8bf5763ea234f69d398a30bff3ca1eed33592%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FCateMarvin2Fstatus2F1612464276047892491widget%3DTweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter bio</a>, she is a “proud mom of [a] trans kid.” In an interview with <a href="https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-three/a-conversation-with-cate-marvin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Adroit Journal</a>, Marvin discussed the content of “Event Horizon,” much of which is concerned with patriarchy, sexism, and gender. Regarding patriarchy, she stated:  
“I also think (and worry) that while the violence you describe in my poems is intended to work against patriarchy, it does in fact stem from the patriarchy. I worry that it’s men’s anger and energy (all steeped in white supremacy) that is trying to claw its way out of the grave that is my body.”
Then she discussed the topic of sexism:
“When I think about it, exploring my experience of sexism in poetry had become familiar. I recognize now that I was stuck in that all too familiar and common cishet white woman myopia.” 
Marvin even claimed that sexism is less intense than transphobia or racism: 
“Because sexism does not, when you come right down to it, compare (in intensity) to the experience of transphobia. Or to the experience of racism. As an English professor, I had never taught literature by trans people, and here I was raising a trans kid. How did this realization affect my writing? What changes me must change my writing.”
While talking about her child, Marvin further commented on the subject of gender with the following statements:
“One thing my child has taught me…is that gender is meaningless. Or that what is meaningful about it is mean, definitely hard-wired, and a trap. Gender binaries are enormously hurtful. Even less than a year ago I had no awareness of how completely shaped I have been by gender as a construct.”
In a tweet, Marvin said she would unsubscribe from The New York Times because they hired columnist David French, a critic of the transgender movement (see tweet below).
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Time to unsubscribe . <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> MOTHER OF TRANS HUMAN 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 <a href="https://t.co/5uBbrUx78V" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/5uBbrUx78V</a>
— Cate Marvin (@CateMarvin) <a href="https://twitter.com/CateMarvin/status/1612464276047892491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Published - May 22, 2023
A syllabus from one of Marvin’s creative writing courses was provided to the Watchlist Team by an anonymous student. This syllabus includes an “Antiracism Statement.” Marvin revealed that, unlike how she taught in the past, she would decenter her literary teaching from the “white men” who contributed to the Western canon of literature to “BiPOC writers.” (see image at the bottom of the profile).

Marvin also stated that she “eliminated the hierarchy of grades,” because it “is one of many facets of white supremacy we see in academia every day.” Not declaring herself an authority on these subjects, Marvin stated she is “still learning and growing,” and realizes she is coming to understand her own “implicit racism as a white woman.” When students comment in the class, she requested them to reserve judgment when listening to each other because “we are all products of systemic racism.” 

At the end of her statement, Marvin discusses what she deems to be beneficial of “discomfort” regarding the discussion of racism:
“Most of us (especially white folx) are conditioned to not speak about it (i.e. racism) openly. Sometimes we will have to sit with our discomfort when it comes to these conversations. Discomfort can help us grow. You can expect the topic of anti-black racism will be a regular part of our conversations as we apply a critical lens to the texts we read as well as our own creative work.”
<img class="alignnone wp-image-2986 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/46CB2509-BCCB-4800-B132-5539917FE8BE-1-1024x956.jpeg" alt="" width="640" height="598" />
Updated - May 26, 2023

LGBTQ

Cate Marvin

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<a href="https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/danny-shaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danny Shaw</a> is an Adjunct Lecturer at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). Shaw’s biography says he “teaches Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender.” His areas of expertise include “Gangs &amp; Social Order,” “Incarceration,” and “Racial &amp; Social Justice.”
In June 2023, Shaw wrote an op-ed for <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/as-us-considers-reoccupying-haiti-history-shows-occupation-is-the-root-problem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Truthout.org</a> where he examined the historical relationship between Haiti and the United States. He ultimately blamed the U.S. “occupation” for the nation’s economic downfall and increased poverty and violence. 
In June 2023, Shaw also participated in a <a href="https://youtu.be/pgEFx-BNNgo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> where he shared how he grew up with “international revolutionaries” and socialist/Marxist ideologies. When asked about America’s economic system and the “war on drugs,” Shaw stated:
“&#8230;It’s the generational trauma that capitalism imposes on us and then addiction—as Malcolm X laid out, we reach for the wine, for the [heroin], for this and that—because we’re in so much pain from that generational and historical trauma…”
During the discussion, Shaw said he believes Americans should study the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Panther-Party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Panther Party</a>, a predominately African-American, radical, Marxist group that sought to abolish capitalism. Quoting a <a href="https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1970/dope.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former Panther idiom</a>, Shaw said, “Dope plus capitalism equals genocide.”
After the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack against Israel, Shaw was featured in <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/cuny-professor-israeli-zionists-are-genocidal-racist-arrogant-bullies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> article titled “CUNY professor: Israeli Zionists are ‘genocidal, racist, arrogant bullies.’” The Fix stated:
“A cache of [Shaw’s] tweets since Hamas’ slaughter of Israelis earlier this month shows the professor exclaiming ‘no to the extermin*tion of the Palestinian people’ and that ‘all the Western imperial bullies race to stand with the Genocidal Settler Colony so they can divy up [sic] the spoils of their conquests.’”
<a href="https://www.stopantisemitism.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">StopAntisemitism.org</a> also published a tweet from Shaw on October 20 that said, “These Zi^nists are straight Babylon swine. We need to protest their neighborhoods…”
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CUNY adjunct lecturer Danny Shaw &#8211; “Zionists are straight Babylon swine Zionism is beyond a mental illness; it’s a genocidal disease.”
Shaw teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Dept. Of Latin American Studies. <a href="https://t.co/8HQaw7Pd9H">pic.twitter.com/8HQaw7Pd9H</a>
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1715362592561008673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Shaw spoke at a pro-Palestine protest that was <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/discover/danny-shaw-cuny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted on TikTok</a>:
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Click this link to view Shaw’s speeches: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/discover/danny-shaw-cuny">https://www.tiktok.com/discover/danny-shaw-cuny</a>. The following screenshots of Shaw’s antisemitic and pro-communist activism are sourced from The College Fix:
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3346" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-04-at-3.11.59 PM-1013x1024.png" alt="" width="640" height="647" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-04-at-3.11.59 PM-1013x1024.png 1013w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-04-at-3.11.59 PM-297x300.png 297w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-04-at-3.11.59 PM-768x777.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-04-at-3.11.59 PM-1200x1213.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-04-at-3.11.59 PM.png 1438w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3347" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-04-at-3.12.28 PM-918x1024.png" alt="" width="640" height="714" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-04-at-3.12.28 PM-918x1024.png 918w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-04-at-3.12.28 PM-269x300.png 269w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-04-at-3.12.28 PM-768x857.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-04-at-3.12.28 PM-1377x1536.png 1377w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-04-at-3.12.28 PM-1200x1339.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-04-at-3.12.28 PM.png 1438w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />
Please send information on Danny Shaw to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.  
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Ms. <a href="http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/taryn-fivek" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taryn Fivek</a> is an Adjunct Lecturer in the <a href="http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/department-economics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Economics</a> at <a href="http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Jay College of Criminal Justice</a> in New York City. According to her university biography, her scholarship focuses on, “uneven economic and geographic development, financialization, neoliberalism, state power, and crisis.” A belligerent activist, she frequents protests across the city and is a representative of the Workers World Party (WWP).

Formed in 1959, the <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6vOzIPWKrwgC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WWP is a Marxist political party</a> that draws direct inspiration from the Bolshevik Revolution and Soviet Commissar, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leon-Trotsky/Role-in-Soviet-government" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leon Trotsky</a>. The organization was formed in 1959 as a more radical alternative to the existing socialist and communist parties at the time. Staunchly anti-American, the WWP frequently rushes to the <a href="https://www.workers.org/2012/world/peoples_korea_0126/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defense of the North Korean dictatorship</a>, even going so far as to claim the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzBEbuZPIw&amp;t=602s&amp;ab_channel=WorkersWorldParty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic People's Republic of Korea offers women more rights than Western Nations. </a>

Ms. Fivek echoes the WWP’s praise for dictators and authoritarian regimes in speeches before the party’s membership. During one meeting, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmwr7SSglhM&amp;t=8s&amp;ab_channel=WorkersWorldParty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she fondly recalled her attendance at a Venezuelan conference</a> with <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN14W2QP" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro</a> while praising the socialist revolution that swept over the country. A separate Buzzfeed report <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hayesbrown/a-twitter-account-that-denies-people-are-starving-in-syria-i" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified Ms. Fivek as the anonymous author of a blog and associated Twitter handle that defended Syrian dictator, Bashar Al-Assad</a>, who is known for brutally <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/world/middleeast/syria-torture-prisons.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">torturing and murdering his own citizens</a>.

The WWP further deploys its activists as a contingent of larger protests across the nation. The group is in regular attendance for the riots that <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/16/woman-who-destroyed-durham-confederate-statue-is-a-pro-north-korea-marxist/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">topple Confederate statues</a> across the South. WWP members additionally took part in the protests that later became known as the “J20 Riots.” Descending on Washington DC in January of 2016, the WWP and other ANTIFA-affiliated groups <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170223112856/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/protesters-who-destroyed-property-on-inauguration-day-part-of-well-organized-group/2017/01/21/096678c8-dfeb-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trashed business, burned cars, and caused hundreds of thousands in damages</a> in the attempt to disrupt the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

Ms. Fivek has openly acknowledged her own participation alongside WWP in the destruction. In a video posted a week after the inauguration, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_d1UdOvdkg&amp;t=272s&amp;ab_channel=WorkersWorldParty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she details the party’s operations on the ground while vowing to continue fighting “every f***ing day” until they “overthrow this killer system”</a>:

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Ms. Fivek routinely denounces capitalism and western nations at large in other speeches at WWP meetings. Delivering one such lecture, beneath a Soviet hammer and sickle, Ms. Fivek commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution and lauds the Communist Party's alleged contributions to world progress. She encourages the members in attendance to draw inspiration from the Soviets in order to “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJjj1EZOJzA&amp;t=402s&amp;ab_channel=SkyNewsAustralia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">smash white supremacy, abolish capitalism, and immediately implement socialism.”</a>

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Despite her praise, the Bolshevik Revolution and the subsequent rise of the Soviet Union cost tens of millions of lives. After overthrowing the Russian government in the fall of 1917, Vladimir Lenin immediately set up <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/red-terror-set-macabre-course-soviet-union" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a series of concentration camps, or “gulags” for political prisoners, and led the Soviet secret police in a brutal crackdown</a>—referred to as the “Red Terror”—against dissidents and political opponents. As many as one million perished before the carnage ended with the cessation of the Russian Civil War in 1921. As <a href="https://fee.org/articles/the-staggering-toll-of-the-russian-revolution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">many as 60 million people perished </a>before the total dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Representing the WWP in a separate 2017 protest, Ms. Fivek condemns President Trump’s recent decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. During her remarks, <a href="https://youtu.be/QdLUHeN5I1U?t=2645" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ms. Fivek lauds the “Palestinian Vanguard’s” violent resistance against Israel</a>, even going as far as to praise Palestinian children for participating in the struggle. She further derides Israel as, “some Zionist entity” heading the biding of globalists and big banks.

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Towards the conclusion of her tirade, Ms. Fivek leads the crowd in chanting, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.” The slogan was <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291203" target="_blank" rel="noopener">popularized by terrorist groups such as the Palestinian Liberation Organization</a> (PLO). The phrase alludes to the destruction of Israel—and thus the genocide of the nation’s Jews—between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The slogan is thought to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1948/08/02/archives/aim-to-oust-jews-pledged-by-sheikh-head-of-moslem-brotherhood-says.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">originate from the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan el-Banna</a>, who was quoted by The New York Times stating, "If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea."

The full video of Ms. Fivek’s remarks is available below.

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The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Ms. Fivek for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact <a href="http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/department-economics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Jay College</a> at (212) 237-8000
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Updated - November 30th, 2021

<a href="https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/danny-shaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danny Shaw</a> is an Adjunct Lecturer at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). Shaw’s biography says he “teaches Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender.” His areas of expertise include “Gangs &amp; Social Order,” “Incarceration,” and “Racial &amp; Social Justice.”

In June 2023, Shaw wrote an op-ed for <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/as-us-considers-reoccupying-haiti-history-shows-occupation-is-the-root-problem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Truthout.org</a> where he examined the historical relationship between Haiti and the United States. He ultimately blamed the U.S. “occupation” for the nation’s economic downfall and increased poverty and violence. 

In June 2023, Shaw also participated in a <a href="https://youtu.be/pgEFx-BNNgo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> where he shared how he grew up with “international revolutionaries” and socialist/Marxist ideologies. When asked about America’s economic system and the “war on drugs,” Shaw stated:
“...It’s the generational trauma that capitalism imposes on us and then addiction—as Malcolm X laid out, we reach for the wine, for the [heroin], for this and that—because we’re in so much pain from that generational and historical trauma…”
During the discussion, Shaw said he believes Americans should study the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Panther-Party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Panther Party</a>, a predominately African-American, radical, Marxist group that sought to abolish capitalism. Quoting a <a href="https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1970/dope.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former Panther idiom</a>, Shaw said, “Dope plus capitalism equals genocide.”

After the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack against Israel, Shaw was featured in <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/cuny-professor-israeli-zionists-are-genocidal-racist-arrogant-bullies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> article titled “CUNY professor: Israeli Zionists are ‘genocidal, racist, arrogant bullies.’” The Fix stated:
“A cache of [Shaw’s] tweets since Hamas’ slaughter of Israelis earlier this month shows the professor exclaiming ‘no to the extermin*tion of the Palestinian people’ and that ‘all the Western imperial bullies race to stand with the Genocidal Settler Colony so they can divy up [sic] the spoils of their conquests.’”
<a href="https://www.stopantisemitism.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">StopAntisemitism.org</a> also published a tweet from Shaw on October 20 that said, “These Zi^nists are straight Babylon swine. We need to protest their neighborhoods…”

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CUNY adjunct lecturer Danny Shaw - “Zionists are straight Babylon swine Zionism is beyond a mental illness; it’s a genocidal disease.”
Shaw teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Dept. Of Latin American Studies. <a href="https://t.co/8HQaw7Pd9H">pic.twitter.com/8HQaw7Pd9H</a>

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1715362592561008673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Shaw spoke at a pro-Palestine protest that was <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/discover/danny-shaw-cuny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted on TikTok</a>:

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Click this link to view Shaw’s speeches: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/discover/danny-shaw-cuny">https://www.tiktok.com/discover/danny-shaw-cuny</a>. The following screenshots of Shaw’s antisemitic and pro-communist activism are sourced from The College Fix:

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Please send information on Danny Shaw to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.  
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Antisemitism

Terror Supporter

Danny Shaw

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<a href="https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/novakdn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vesna Dominika Novak</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati. Novak — a male formerly known as Domen — now identifies as female and uses “she/her” pronouns. According to his university profile, Novak’s interests include “rehabilitation robotics, wearable robotics, virtual reality, serious games, affective computing, and human activity recognition.”
In November 2023, Novak and two other researchers received a $213,878 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a smartphone app to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/nih-awards-200k-to-researchers-creating-transgender-voice-training-app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">help transgender men sound like women</a>. The <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/9hRsKQVyakaKSCkPwM0_gA/project-details/10788947" target="_blank" rel="noopener">project abstract</a> states:
“Transgender and gender diverse people exhibit a significantly lower quality of life than the general public. One reason for this is voice dysphoria: distress because a person’s voice does not match their gender identity (e.g., trans women with deep voices).”
“One way to provide more accessible GAVT (gender-affirming voice and communication training) would be through smartphone- or computer-based software that delivers information about voice, suggests exercises, and provides feedback on exercise performance.” 
The study will <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/02/biden-admin-trans-voice-app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recruit 40 biological men who identify as transgender</a> to meet online every week, use the researchers’ “prototype” app, and complete homework. The project started in December 2023 and is scheduled to run through November 2025.
In 2022, Novak co-authored a 57-question survey in the <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0892199722000686?dgcid=author" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal of Voice</a> that interviewed “transgender and gender-diverse” people. The survey found that participants “were positive about the idea of a [voice training] app and considered it more accessible and less dysphoria-inducing than human coaches as well as more effective than self-guided training.”
After the survey was released, Novak was interviewed by <a href="https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2022/04/uc-professor-says-transgender-and-gender-diverse-people-may-benefit-from-a-proper-voice-training-app.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UC News</a>, where he stated:
“Voice training is training fundamentally. A lot of people will do it for two hours and give up. It is like weight loss for two hours. You don’t get anything from that. But if you do this long term you will see results. It works if you do it well enough and long enough. Most people can’t figure out how to do it well.” 
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Published &#8211; February 22, 2024

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<a href="https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/tichavaa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antar Akari Tichavakunda</a> is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Cincinnati. According to his university biography, his research focuses on college readiness, black students’ experiences at predominantly white institutions, and the sociology of race and higher education.

Tichavakunda wrote a June 2022 op-ed for Inside Higher Ed titled, <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/06/30/academic-integrity-issues-are-not-race-neutral-opinion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Let’s Talk About Race and Academic Integrity.”</a> In this article, he argues that “Black and Latinx” students are <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=19850" target="_blank" rel="noopener">harmed by exam surveillance, zero-tolerance policies, and fraternities and sororities.</a> He says that proctoring software doesn’t always work correctly for those who have darker skin and that the “algorithms and codes structuring such technologies can perpetuate racial biases and stereotypes.”

Tichavakunda also believes that zero-tolerance plagiarism and academic integrity policies harm “Black and Latinx” students because the people who decide what is considered punishable are not “race-neutral.” He states:
“Decision makers, from faculty members to student conduct officers, hold beliefs about identity that - if uninterrogated - could potentially be racist and discriminatory.” 
Lastly, he claims that test banks, the cheat sheets made for exams by sororities and fraternities, are unfair to minorities because “the members of the oldest organizations with the largest test banks are predominantly white.”

In another Inside Higher Ed op-ed, titled <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/views/2022/08/22/affirmative-action-probably-dead-whats-next-opinion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Affirmative Action Is Probably Dead: Now What,”</a> he argues that “universities committed to the ideals of racial justice” should require “their applicants to think and act on issues of racial justice.” He suggests that universities could require all applicants to have completed an ethnic studies course or to include a statement of their commitment to racial justice on their application.
“Though universities may soon be denied the ability to consider race in admissions, they can consider a commitment to racial justice as part of a holistic admissions process.” 
Tichavakunda believes that racial injustice is one of the “most pervasive and persistent challenges of our time” and that universities must consider race if they want to be “caretakers of democracy.”

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Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/andrewm7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mel Andrews</a> is an instructor and PhD student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. According to <a href="http://mel-andrews.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her website</a>, she previously taught courses such as “Introduction to Cognitive Studies” and “Medical Ethics.”

Campus Reform reported Andrews wrote on her Twitter that <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17083" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“intelligence is a White man’s mythology.”</a> In a lengthy thread dated February 23, 2021, Andrews says:

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She then writes:

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Andrews then attached an <a href="https://twitter.com/bayesianboy/status/1364395418105356288" target="_blank" rel="noopener">excerpt from a chapter</a> she wrote for a book titled “Handbook of Parenting.” In her chapter, she cited works claiming “more than a century of wanton reductionism and definitional vagueness in the study of intelligence and human potential has perpetuated a stratified social order and obscured the true dynamic complexity and diversity of human cognitive development.”

The full Twitter thread <a href="https://twitter.com/bayesianboy/status/1364383079968739333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1364383079968739333%7Ctwgr%5E36878b6749e7b6e7e41940c97ea815b760b7cf65%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcampusreform.org%2Farticle%3Fid%3D17083" target="_blank" rel="noopener">can be viewed here.</a>

In an interview with Campus Reform, Andrews said, “I was addressing a phenomenon that I have noticed to be common in academic philosophy wherein individuals emphasize the intelligence of minority scholars and students over the quality of the work they produce.”

She added:
“It is the same phenomenon that occurs when a white instructor says to a Black student, in a surprised tone, ‘oh, you’re so articulate!’ It implies an expectation that Black students will be ineloquent. It was not - as is contextually obvious from what I had initially posted - a condemnation of intelligence ascriptions simpliciter.” 
Campus Reform adds that Andrews asked to be referred to as a “Marxist and anarcho-syndicalist” with “they/them/theirs” pronouns.
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<a href="https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/nippermi">Melanie Rose Nipper</a> is an Adjunct Professor with Miami University and the University of Cincinnati (UC). As stated in her <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-nipper-18b811243/">LinkedIn</a> profile, Melanie is a passionate advocate for DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) and education. According to UC records, she was contracted by the department of <a href="https://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/wgss.html">Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies</a> to teach a “<a href="https://classes.catalyst-services.uc.edu/search/">Gender in Pop Culture</a>” course.

According to a report by <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/08/olivia-krolczyk-professor-university-cincinnati-assignment-failed-women-studies/70295104007/">The Enquirer</a>, Nipper has become the center of a controversy after a previous student released a TikTok about her course.

Olivia Krolczyk, the student who posted the video, was given a failing grade on a proposal for Nipper’s class. The student shared that her proposal was centered around the argument that, “trans athletes competing in women’s sports were taking opportunities away from biological women.”

To Olivia’s surprise, she was given a failing grade on this proposal for describing the people that were born a woman as “biological women.”

When asked about this incident, Nipper responded, “This is unacceptable based on the community, the marginalized individuals that are at stake, and also the foundations of the course.” She continued, saying that when a student uses ‘outdated terminology,’ she feels it is necessary to correct those mistakes: “Not a zero for the course… A zero for an assignment.”

<a href="https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/loadenml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Loadenthal</a> is an Assistant Professor of Research at the University of Cincinnati. According to his <a href="https://michaelloadenthal.academia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academia.edu profile</a>, Loadenthal also “serves as the Executive Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Association (Georgetown University), the Executive Director of the Prosecution Project, and an open-source investigator and social movement trainer.”

In 2021, Loadenthal spoke at an“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRbXNvwSROE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Extremism, Rhetoric and Democratic Precarity</a>” roundtable at the University of Dayton’s “Social Practice of Human Rights Conference.” During this talk, he presented “The Pyramid of Far-Right Radicalization.”

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In Loadenthal’s presentation, the descriptive text at the bottom of the picture was not visible. However, his notes visible on the screen read:
“So today we’re talking about the modern far-right, which depending on who you ask, can include things as mundane as the Heritage Foundation, all the way up to underground cells of militants. I like the use of this 4-part taxonomy, although I disagree with some of the groups’ placements.” 
When asked about the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/university-program-linking-christians-republicans-nazis-granted-dhs-funds-part-anti-terror-initiative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sourcing of the graphic</a>, Loadenthal noted that he did not create it; rather, “I found it a helpful conceptual scaffolding and used it.”

Loadenthal spoke at another University of Dayton event, a “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc6tFQMnL14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Nationalism Seminar</a>.” In this talk, he seemingly <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/01/meet-the-violent-anarchist-behind-dhss-pyramid-of-far-right-radicalization-scandal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted to being a member of Antifa</a> and discussed how in his “younger years,” he engaged in “direct confrontation” with alleged white supremacists.
“We organized largely through networks - today people would call Antifa, at the time it was known as anti-racist action - to follow white supremacists where they go, to outnumber them, and then to physically confront them and deny them the space to physically meet in public. This is the idea of de-platforming. I worked in that realm for a long time.” 
He also spoke to attendees about how to securely dox people, detailing “how he uses a VPN, burner phones, encrypted communications, and ‘sock puppet’ accounts to dox people.”
“We contact employers, landlords, commanding officers, school officials, family, clergy, and we pressure service providers [PayPal, GoFundMe, Patreon, Amazon etc.] … and people will kick people off.” 
During a question-and-answer portion of the discussion, Loadenthal was asked how people can help his work. He responded, “Donate money…We have defense funds because we get into trouble. A lot of the things we’re doing are illegal…a lot of it involves breaking the law.”

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Published - September 15, 2023

<a href="https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/novakdn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vesna Dominika Novak</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati. Novak — a male formerly known as Domen — now identifies as female and uses “she/her” pronouns. According to his university profile, Novak’s interests include “rehabilitation robotics, wearable robotics, virtual reality, serious games, affective computing, and human activity recognition.”

In November 2023, Novak and two other researchers received a $213,878 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a smartphone app to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/nih-awards-200k-to-researchers-creating-transgender-voice-training-app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">help transgender men sound like women</a>. The <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/9hRsKQVyakaKSCkPwM0_gA/project-details/10788947" target="_blank" rel="noopener">project abstract</a> states:
“Transgender and gender diverse people exhibit a significantly lower quality of life than the general public. One reason for this is voice dysphoria: distress because a person’s voice does not match their gender identity (e.g., trans women with deep voices).”
“One way to provide more accessible GAVT (gender-affirming voice and communication training) would be through smartphone- or computer-based software that delivers information about voice, suggests exercises, and provides feedback on exercise performance.” 
The study will <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/02/biden-admin-trans-voice-app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recruit 40 biological men who identify as transgender</a> to meet online every week, use the researchers’ “prototype” app, and complete homework. The project started in December 2023 and is scheduled to run through November 2025.

In 2022, Novak co-authored a 57-question survey in the <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0892199722000686?dgcid=author" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal of Voice</a> that interviewed “transgender and gender-diverse” people. The survey found that participants “were positive about the idea of a [voice training] app and considered it more accessible and less dysphoria-inducing than human coaches as well as more effective than self-guided training.”

After the survey was released, Novak was interviewed by <a href="https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2022/04/uc-professor-says-transgender-and-gender-diverse-people-may-benefit-from-a-proper-voice-training-app.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UC News</a>, where he stated:
“Voice training is training fundamentally. A lot of people will do it for two hours and give up. It is like weight loss for two hours. You don’t get anything from that. But if you do this long term you will see results. It works if you do it well enough and long enough. Most people can’t figure out how to do it well.” 
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Published - February 22, 2024

Vesna Dominika Novak

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<a href="https://thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/two-iconic-american-writers-join-howard-create-center-help-educate-next-generation-black-journalists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ta-Nehisi Coates</a> is an incoming professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University. He currently serves as a <a href="https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/news-post/2017/01/30/author-ta-nehisi-coates-join-faculty-nyus-carter-journalism-institute/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty member</a> in the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. 
Coates spent much of his professional career writing for The Atlantic as a national correspondent. In 2014, he penned the 16,000-word essay, “<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Case for Reparations</a>.” The polemic brands America as a “slave society” that was founded on white supremacy:
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No American is spared from this indictment, Coates argues, as the legacy of racism extends to each white citizen: 
“The crime indicts the American people themselves, at every level, and in nearly every configuration. A crime that implicates the entire American people deserves its hearing in the legislative body that represents them.” 
Coates has further <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-atlantic-writer-says-trump-presidency-paul-bois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disparaged whites</a>, calling their votes an “indispensable” effort in promoting white supremacy each election cycle: 
“When you ask yourself why majorities of white people across socioeconomic demographics, across gender lines, across education lines, would endorse someone who only had whiteness to offer and all you come to is tribalism. That’s all that’s left.”
Coates is most <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/ta-nehisi-coates-who-called-9-11-responders-menaces-of-nature-to-speak-at-west-point" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infamously</a> known for his 2001 book, <a href="https://ta-nehisicoates.com/books/between-the-world-and-me/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Between the World and Me</a>, where he describes 9/11 first responders as sub-human and “menaces of nature:” 
“They were not human to me…Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could – with no justification – shatter my body.”
While producing a series of Captain America comics, Coates allegedly depicted popular academic <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/6/jordan-b-peterson-stunned-by-red-skull-hit-job-in-/">Jordan Peterson as the demagogic, fascist Red Skull</a>. 
Widely acclaimed on the left for his work, Coates was awarded a <a href="https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2015/ta-nehisi-coates#searchresults" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MacArthur Genius Grant</a> in 2015. The “no-strings-attached” program gifted <a href="https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/strategy">$800,000</a> to Coates for “Interpreting complex and challenging issues around race and racism through the lens of personal experience and nuanced historical analysis.
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Joy Reid–host of The Reid Out on MSNBC– is a Hearst Visiting Professor at Howard University in Washington DC. Reid is known to launch into partisan diatribes during broadcasts and regularly uses her platform to berate conservatives.

During the riots in the summer of 2020 following the death of George Floyd, Reid has claimed there is “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzPloMpG2EM&amp;ab_channel=MSNBC">zero evidence</a>” that any of the destruction was connected to the movement. She has claimed that when there was any violence, it was inflicted by “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzPloMpG2EM&amp;ab_channel=MSNBC">white supremacists</a>” and Trump supporters.

It is reported that there was a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/">significant presence</a> by BLM activists at over 95% of the riots during the summer of 2020, resulting in at least 47 deaths and over <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion.">2 billion</a> in damages.

Reid has <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/msnbc-joy-reid-labels-justice-150310965.html">referred to Justice Clarence Thomas as “Uncle Clarence,”</a> a reference to the racial epithet “Uncle Tom” when discussing his court rulings.

Following the <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/james-hodgkinson-shooting-republicans-baseball-game">2017 congressional baseball shooting</a>, Reid and her guest <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGQEdDySUVI&amp;ab_channel=MSNBC">mocked the victims for holding insufficiently liberal positions</a>. She accused Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise of racism while he was fighting for his life after the attack.

In 2018, blog posts were unearthed from Reid’s old website that contained inflammatory language, bigoted statements, and<a href="https://nypost.com/2018/05/31/joy-reid-reportedly-once-touted-notorious-9-11-conspiracy-film/"> links to conspiracies that accused the United States government of plotting the 9/11 terror attacks</a>. <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/04/24/msnbc-stars-lame-excuse-after-homophobic-remarks-surface/?_ga=2.40761378.1834013034.1527547273-216432594.1517259352">Reid alleged that many members of Congress were secretly gay</a>, and <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/msnbc-host-joy-reid-criticized-jews-ariel-sharon-in-old-blog-posts/">openly mocked Jews</a>.

Once the blog was unearthed and began receiving media attention, Reid initially acknowledged that she had written the posts and apologized for her “bigoted remarks.” However, once additional posts surfaced, Reid reversed her position and claimed that she had never written the blog posts to begin with. Reid claimed on national television that <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/watch-msnbc-s-joy-reid-address-offensive-blog-posts-1221485635964">she “genuinely does not believe that“ she wrote the posts</a> and alleged that her blog was hacked. After her statement, cyber-security experts confirmed that there <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/the-evidence-is-not-with-joy-reid/558935/">was little evidence of Reid’s blog ever being breached</a>.

Reid<a href="https://newsroom.howard.edu/newsroom/article/13601/award-winning-msnbc-news-anchor-joy-reid-joins-howard-university-2021-hearst"> currently teaches a journalism class titled “Covering Race, Gender, and Politics in the Digital Age”</a>. Reid plans to teach journalism students how to navigate “partisanship and political division.”
“Particularly in this era of virtual media, and deep partisanship and political division, it’s never been more important that journalists incorporate a thorough and honest historical context in our coverage. I can’t wait to interact with the brilliant students at Howard and share ideas with them on how we as an industry can be better and do better.”
For more information, be sure to check out Isabel Brown's <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/professor-watchlist-joy-reid">article</a> on Joy Reid at TPUSA Live.
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Updated - Spring, 2021

Nikole Hannah-Jones is the inaugural Knight Chair of Race and Reporting at Howard University in Washington D.C.

Hannah-Jones is best known as one of the primary authors of The 1619 Project. <a href="https://archive.org/details/1619project/full_issue_of_the_1619_project">Published in July of 2019 by The New York Times Magazine</a>, The 1619 Project is a series of reports and essays that purport to document the origins of and lingering effects of racism in America. The stated intent for the project is to establish 1619–the first year that slaves were brought to the British Colonies in America–as the true founding of the United States, rather than 1776. The project’s central thesis alleges that slavery and racism are the basis out of which the United States was created.<a href="https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/nikole-hannah-jones-wins-pulitzer-prize-1619-project"> Hannah-Jones was awarded The Pulitzer Prize</a> for her work on the project. Since its publication, The 1619 Project and its authors have faced a myriad of problems, including accusations of controversial hiring tactics, false claims, and shoddy research.

Hannah-Jones elicited controversy for the publication and retraction of false information in her articles and unearthed racially incendiary remarks.

- Shortly after the publication of the report, Hannah-Jones admitted that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/18/reader-center/1619-project-slavery-jamestown.html">hiring almost exclusively black staff was a “non-negotiable”</a> aspect when beginning to work on the 1619 issue of The New York Times Magazine.

- One of Hannah-Jones’ central claims—“that one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery”—<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/new-york-times-corrects-the-1619-project-but-its-still-a-giant-lie/">was retracted by the paper in early 2020</a>.

- In January 2020, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/inclusive-case-1776-not-1619/604435/">numerous historians, scholars, and commentators—both conservatives and socialists</a>— as cited by The Atlantic criticized The New York Times and The 1619 Project for publishing false information about American history and slavery.

- In October 2020, <a href="https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/pulitzer-board-must-revoke-nikole-hannah-jones-prize">accomplished professors and intellectuals penned an open letter</a> calling on “the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the 2020 Prize for Commentary awarded to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her lead essay in The 1619 Project” because “... the article itself was false when written, making a large claim that protecting the institution of slavery was a primary motive for the American Revolution, a claim for which there is simply no evidence.”

Bret Stephens, a columnist for The New York Times and colleague of Hannah-Jones,<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201105003122/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/nyt-1619-project-criticisms.html"> rebuffed the 1619 Project,</a> writing in October 2020 that “Journalists are, most often, in the business of writing the first rough draft of history, not trying to have the last word on it. We are best when we try to tell truths with a lowercase t, following evidence in directions unseen, not the capital-T truth of a pre-established narrative in which inconvenient facts get discarded.”

By late 2020, both Hannah-Jones’ claims and The 1619 Project as a whole began receiving scrutiny–<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/inclusive-case-1776-not-1619/604435/">from both the Left and Right</a>–on a near-daily occurrence. Hannah-Jones then falsely <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/">stated that The 1619 Project never claimed that 1619 was America’s true founding</a>, despite the fact that the allegation was printed on the front pages of the issue and was repeated numerous times in televised and print interviews.

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Hannah-Jones attracted further scrutiny over a racially explicit op-ed that she had written as a student at Notre Dame University in 1996. <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/25/in-racist-screed-nyts-1619-project-founder-calls-white-race-barbaric-devils-bloodsuckers-no-different-than-hitler/">As reported by The Federalist</a>, Mrs. Hannah-Jones described white people as “bloodsuckers” and accused the white race of being the “biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief, of the modern world.” She alleges in the same article that Africans arrived in the Americas “long before Columbus or any Europeans,” and that Christopher Columbus was “no different than Hitler.”

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Hannah-Jones was originally <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17529">offered the position of Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism and Professor of the Practice</a> at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Activists and later Hannah-Jones accused the university of racism for withholding tenure. When the University finally bowed to the pressure and <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/07/06/nikole-hannah-jones-denies-tenure-at-unc-accepts-howard-role/">offered to meet her demands, Jones refused and accepted a similar position at Howard University.</a>

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Parents and Students may contact <a href="https://www2.howard.edu/contact/directory">Howard University</a> at (202) 806-6100
Updated - July 2021

<a href="https://thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/two-iconic-american-writers-join-howard-create-center-help-educate-next-generation-black-journalists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ta-Nehisi Coates</a> is an incoming professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University. He currently serves as a <a href="https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/news-post/2017/01/30/author-ta-nehisi-coates-join-faculty-nyus-carter-journalism-institute/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty member</a> in the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. 

Coates spent much of his professional career writing for The Atlantic as a national correspondent. In 2014, he penned the 16,000-word essay, “<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Case for Reparations</a>.” The polemic brands America as a “slave society” that was founded on white supremacy:
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No American is spared from this indictment, Coates argues, as the legacy of racism extends to each white citizen: 
“The crime indicts the American people themselves, at every level, and in nearly every configuration. A crime that implicates the entire American people deserves its hearing in the legislative body that represents them.” 
Coates has further <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-atlantic-writer-says-trump-presidency-paul-bois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disparaged whites</a>, calling their votes an “indispensable” effort in promoting white supremacy each election cycle: 

“When you ask yourself why majorities of white people across socioeconomic demographics, across gender lines, across education lines, would endorse someone who only had whiteness to offer and all you come to is tribalism. That’s all that’s left.”

Coates is most <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/ta-nehisi-coates-who-called-9-11-responders-menaces-of-nature-to-speak-at-west-point" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infamously</a> known for his 2001 book, <a href="https://ta-nehisicoates.com/books/between-the-world-and-me/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Between the World and Me</a>, where he describes 9/11 first responders as sub-human and “menaces of nature:” 

“They were not human to me…Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could – with no justification – shatter my body.”

While producing a series of Captain America comics, Coates allegedly depicted popular academic <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/6/jordan-b-peterson-stunned-by-red-skull-hit-job-in-/">Jordan Peterson as the demagogic, fascist Red Skull</a>. 

Widely acclaimed on the left for his work, Coates was awarded a <a href="https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2015/ta-nehisi-coates#searchresults" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MacArthur Genius Grant</a> in 2015. The “no-strings-attached” program gifted <a href="https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/strategy">$800,000</a> to Coates for “Interpreting complex and challenging issues around race and racism through the lens of personal experience and nuanced historical analysis.

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Published - January 18th, 2023

Anti-Law Enforcement

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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<a href="https://www.kent.edu/multidisciplinary-studies/lgbtq-studies-0/meet-director" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lauren Vachon</a> is an Assistant Professor of LGBTQ Studies and the Coordinator for the LGBTQ Studies Minor Program at Kent State University. According to her <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-vachon-8284b45b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a>, Vachon is a “queer activist and educator” who says her research interests include “LGBTQ history, queer pedagogy, creative writing as pedagogy, using oral histories in the classroom, and collecting queer oral histories.”
On March 20, 2023, the Kent State College Republicans <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-says-its-not-about-free-speech-after-what-is-a-woman-is-painted-on-campus-rock/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">painted</a> “What Is a Woman?” on a free speech-style rock on campus to promote their showing of Matt Walsh’s documentary.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2952 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-27-at-9.17.01-AM.png" alt="" width="621" height="403" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-27-at-9.17.01-AM.png 621w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-27-at-9.17.01-AM-300x195.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px" />
According to <a href="https://kentwired.com/96504/latest-updates/its-not-about-free-speech-members-of-the-lgbtq-community-speak-out-against-anti-trans-message-fusion-collab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kent Wired</a>, Professor Vachon was very upset about the rock’s painting and said:
“A value that this community has and shares is a value of freedom of thought, speech and expression and that’s super important to protect. So I think it’s not to say [&#8230;] you can tell a group that they can’t bring the documentary, although it has been banned from platforms for being considered hate speech. We know that the intent was antagonism. I do think there should be consequences for that. It’s not about free speech.” 
Vachon claims, “The intent in bringing the documentary and the intent in even promoting it was antagonism against the LGBT community. Further, she believes the response from students is justified, saying:
“The natural consequences of this kind of antagonism toward the LGBT community is what’s happening, which is student outrage and planned protests and change.org petitions and pressure on the administration to address it, and [&#8230;] protect[ing] LGBTQ communities who feel unsafe in this kind of political environment.” 
Kent Wired writes that Vachon “thinks the overall treatment of trans people has improved, but incidents like the rock painting and documentary advertisement create a ‘hostile environment.’”
“This is happening in a moment that is already really scary and fraught for trans people and already a very politically charged moment. That is a scary big picture that is harming trans people right now.” 
Vachon was quoted in another <a href="https://kentwired.com/813/latest-updates/gender-inclusion-efforts-continue-across-campus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kent Wired</a> article titled, “Gender inclusion efforts continue across campus.” Vachon said she encourages faculty members to use their pronouns in their email signatures and discussed her “inclusive syllabus.”
“When an opportunity came up among faculty to share materials on building an inclusive classroom, I was inspired by other universities and practices they had put in place. The inclusive syllabus designates space for a pronoun usage policy which assures students that they’re safe in my classroom, and that I’ll use pronouns they ask me to use.”
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Published &#8211; April 27, 2023

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Kent State University

Dr. Julio Cesar Pino was a tenured Associate Professor of History at Kent State University with a history of anti-Semitic actions.

In 2007, the university launched an investigation into Pino after he posted on a Jihadist blog. According to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/fbi-investigating-kent-state-professor-alleged-isis-involvement-/7189">Campus Reform</a>, the investigation “allegedly concluded in 2009 after Pino was visited at his home by U.S. Secret Service agents.”

In 2011, Pino interrupted a student event on campus featuring Arab-Israeli diplomat Ishmael Khaldi with shouts of “death to Israel!” Campus Reform reported, “Pino stood up in the middle of Khaldi’s presentation and said ‘your government killed people.’ He proceeded to call Khaldi a liar before he stormed out of the room.”

In 2014, Pino wrote an <a href="https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/kent-state-history-professor-says-academic-friends">open letter</a> to his “academic friends of Israel,” in which he wrote:
“I hold you directly responsible for the murder of over 1,400 Palestinian children, women and elderly civilians over the past month. This is not symbolic or even legally justified homicide on your part but actual, cold-blooded, calculated killing, for which you are culpable.” 
He also claimed that any academics who support Israel “have chosen to openly work for and brag about academic collaboration with a regime that is the spiritual heir to Nazism.” He ended his open letter with a call for “Jihad until victory.”

In 2016, Pino <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2016/01/19/shocker-death-to-israel-prof-investigated-as-possible-isis-recruiter/">came under investigation</a> by the FBI due to suspicions that he had ties to ISIS. In 2018, <a href="https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/crime/former-kent-state-professor-julio-pino-gets-5-months-in-prison-for-lying-to-fbi/95-598307079">WKYC</a> wrote:
“While authorities did not find any formal ties to terrorist activities, they did charge him with lying to the FBI after he falsely claimed he did not know a Missouri individual known as ‘J.E.’ who had threatened to ‘kill 100s of people’ if a court took away custody of his own son.” 
During the investigation, it came to light that Pino and J.E. were Facebook friends, and Pino had encouraged J.E. to “devour them” in a message between the two. J.E. later sent threatening messages to a St. Louis Family Court Judge. Pino was sentenced to five months in federal prison, five months of house arrest, three years probation, and a $2,500 fine.

Despite all of his previous allegations, WKYC reported:
“However, it wasn’t until he was charged that the university suspended him and banned him from campus. Following the guilty plea, it was announced Pino would be fired ‘in accordance with personnel policies.’”
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Updated - August 2024

<a href="https://www.kent.edu/multidisciplinary-studies/lgbtq-studies-0/meet-director" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lauren Vachon</a> is an Assistant Professor of LGBTQ Studies and the Coordinator for the LGBTQ Studies Minor Program at Kent State University. According to her <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-vachon-8284b45b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a>, Vachon is a “queer activist and educator” who says her research interests include “LGBTQ history, queer pedagogy, creative writing as pedagogy, using oral histories in the classroom, and collecting queer oral histories.”

On March 20, 2023, the Kent State College Republicans <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-says-its-not-about-free-speech-after-what-is-a-woman-is-painted-on-campus-rock/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">painted</a> “What Is a Woman?” on a free speech-style rock on campus to promote their showing of Matt Walsh’s documentary.

<img class="size-full wp-image-2952 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-27-at-9.17.01-AM.png" alt="" width="621" height="403" />

According to <a href="https://kentwired.com/96504/latest-updates/its-not-about-free-speech-members-of-the-lgbtq-community-speak-out-against-anti-trans-message-fusion-collab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kent Wired</a>, Professor Vachon was very upset about the rock’s painting and said:
“A value that this community has and shares is a value of freedom of thought, speech and expression and that’s super important to protect. So I think it’s not to say [...] you can tell a group that they can’t bring the documentary, although it has been banned from platforms for being considered hate speech. We know that the intent was antagonism. I do think there should be consequences for that. It’s not about free speech.” 
Vachon claims, “The intent in bringing the documentary and the intent in even promoting it was antagonism against the LGBT community. Further, she believes the response from students is justified, saying:
“The natural consequences of this kind of antagonism toward the LGBT community is what’s happening, which is student outrage and planned protests and change.org petitions and pressure on the administration to address it, and [...] protect[ing] LGBTQ communities who feel unsafe in this kind of political environment.” 
Kent Wired writes that Vachon “thinks the overall treatment of trans people has improved, but incidents like the rock painting and documentary advertisement create a ‘hostile environment.’”
“This is happening in a moment that is already really scary and fraught for trans people and already a very politically charged moment. That is a scary big picture that is harming trans people right now.” 
Vachon was quoted in another <a href="https://kentwired.com/813/latest-updates/gender-inclusion-efforts-continue-across-campus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kent Wired</a> article titled, “Gender inclusion efforts continue across campus.” Vachon said she encourages faculty members to use their pronouns in their email signatures and discussed her “inclusive syllabus.”
“When an opportunity came up among faculty to share materials on building an inclusive classroom, I was inspired by other universities and practices they had put in place. The inclusive syllabus designates space for a pronoun usage policy which assures students that they’re safe in my classroom, and that I’ll use pronouns they ask me to use.”
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Published - April 27, 2023

Lauren Vachon

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<a href="https://www.duq.edu/faculty-and-staff/elisabeth-vasko.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elisabeth Vasko</a> is an Associate Professor at Duquesne University. According to her faculty, profile Vasko “is a passionate educator who empowers young people to think critically about their capacity for social change. Her teaching and research examines the intersection of Christian tradition and racialized and gender violence.”
In 2021, Vasko <a href="https://www.newwaysministry.org/homeforall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed a statement from New Ways Ministry</a> supporting “the church’s teaching that LGBTQ people should not suffer discrimination.” Vasko signed her name in agreement with the declaration that says:
“As Catholic theologians, scholars, church leaders, writers, and ministers, we affirm that Catholic teaching presents a positive case for ending discrimination against LGBTQ people. We affirm the Second Vatican Council’s demand that ‘any kind of social or cultural discrimination … must be curbed and eradicated’ (Gaudium et Spes, 29). We affirm that Catholic teaching should not be used to further oppress LGBTQ people by denying rights rooted in their inherent human dignity and in the church’s call for social equality.”
In the past, Vasko also participated in an event involving a Catholic church’s work on racial justice. 
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In her novel <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Beyond_Apathy/qrEvBQAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=beyond+apathy&amp;pg=PA240&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beyond Empathy: A Theology for Bystanders</a>, Vasko wrote:
“As Christians, we are continually called to reckon with what it means to be passionately engaged in the world today. For privileged Christians, this means not only opening our eyes and ears to the violence that surrounds us but also operates within us. The way beyond apathy (for privileged persons) is not easy. It involves a willingness to enter into compassionate solidarity with those who are marginalized.”
Please send tips and information on Professor Elisabeth Vasko to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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<a href="https://www.duq.edu/academics/faculty/derek-hook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Derek Hook</a> is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at <a href="https://www.duq.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Duquesne University</a> in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During a lecture for the <a href="https://www.aapcsw.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work</a> (AAPCSW), Dr. Hook <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1430623830226186242" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> that it’s ethical for white people to die in order to atone for apartheid in South Africa.

<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/apartheid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apartheid rule consisted of a series of discriminatory laws </a>enforced along racial lines against black South Africans by the ruling white minority. It is widely considered to have ended with the election of dissident Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa in 1994. The <a href="https://spectator.org/south-africa-covid-lockdowns-civil-unrest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nation has since been plagued with economic crises, endemic poverty, and social unrest</a>.

Many white South Africans, also known as “Boers,” have suffered what are known as “farm attacks.” Victims believe <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/how-a-survivor-of-a-south-african-white-farm-murder-is-fighting-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the attacks are conducted with prejudice and that assailants are overlooked by the South African government</a>. This suspicion is seemingly validated by a recent report demonstrating that <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5534449/South-Africas-white-farmers-likely-killed-police.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white farmers are the victims of murders at far higher rates than the rest of the country’s population.</a> The violence is so pronounced that nations like the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210107020520/https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1032454567152246785" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States</a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43403408" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Australia</a> have offered aid to farmers suffering from the violence.

Despite denials of ongoing persecution, the ruling government continues to exacerbate the crises in the country. In 2018, the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/south-african-government-begins-seizing-land-white-farmers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">South African government amended its constitution to allow for the forcible confiscation of property from white farmers without compensation</a>. Members of parliament have lauded the government’s policy as “<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5534449/South-Africas-white-farmers-likely-killed-police.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cutting the throat of whiteness</a>.”

In a video lecture for the AAPCSW—and captured by Twitter user, Mythinformed MKE—Dr. Hook can be heard <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1430623830226186242" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocating for the end of whiteness in South Africa</a> in a similar fashion. The video begins with Dr. Hook reading a quote questioning whether white people can ever be integrated into the country’s black majority. He states, “the only way for white people to become part of Africa is to not exist as white people anymore”.

He continues, “the goal has to be to dismantle white culture and ultimately white people themselves.” Dr. Hook further states the “death of white people” is necessary for integration to be successful;

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After finishing, Dr. Hook argues there is something “ethical” about the passage he just read.

Dr. Hook further advocates for a “symbolic extinction” of white people to be achieved by the “castration of whiteness.”

The full remarks may be listened to below.
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Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University Derek Hook, defends the quote “white people should commit suicide as an ethical act” as an “opportunity” to “castrate whiteness”.
This is part of an “anti-racist” discussion on “nice white therapists” held by AAPCSW. <a href="https://t.co/IL839IjUCV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/IL839IjUCV</a>

— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1430623830226186242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 25, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Much of Dr. Hook’s work surrounds the study of the term “whiteness.” In one paper, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41282-020-00178-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he comments that professor Robin DiAngelo’s concept of “white fragility'' does not go far enough</a>, as it is insufficiently “destabilizing” to whiteness in post-apartheid South Africa.

Dr. DiAngelo’s concept of white fragility accuses all white Americans of internalizing white supremacy. White Americans—according to DiAngelo—will therefore work to maintain their racism and preserve racist structures and the benefits they confer. Dr. DiAngelo’s full profile <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/robindiangelo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">may be viewed on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist</a>.

The clip is a portion of Dr. Hook’s lecture in the “anti-racist” discussion on “nice white therapists”  that occurred during an AAPCSW conference. Following the publication of Dr. Hook’s remarks, the <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1430946358287024129" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AAPCSW proceeded to remove all videos of the conference </a>from their Youtube page.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Hook for comment but have not received a response by the time of publication.

Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.duq.edu/academics/schools/liberal-arts/academics/departments-and-centers/psychology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Psychology at Duquesne University</a> at (412) 396-6520 or at <a href="mailto:psychology@duq.edu">psychology@duq.edu</a>.

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Update - The Professor Watchlist Team has received a response to our inquiry from Gabriel Welsch, Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Duquesne. In a statement, the University has described our documentation of Dr. Hook’s statements as “ridiculous” and “reckless.” They further claim that Dr. Hook is a “highly respected expert” who does not advocate for violence. The University then accuses the Professor Watchlist team of taking Dr. Hook’s lecture out of context—despite the full context of the audio clip being included in the profile—to, “falsely illustrate advocacy for extreme behavior.”

The full text of the University’s response is provided below:

“The statement attributed to Professor Hook is ridiculous and reckless. He did not make a statement advocating anything like what was suggested. In fact, he said that the statement in question was "crazy."   

Professor Hook also said that the provocateur who used this example was wrong in suggesting any such radical action. The words being circulated were simply lifted out of context to distort the actual comments. Saying that Professor Hook called for anything like the words in question is false.   

Duquesne University is a Catholic institution that condemns any suggestion that suicide is to be advocated or endorsed in any form.   

Professor Hook's presentation was part of an invited online talk Professor Hook gave to the Baltimore-based American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW), an international association for psychoanalytic social workers. It happened in June. While some of the content in the recording certainly contained troubling elements if taken alone, the full discussion only references the work of another person (Terblanche Delport, as the slides indicate) and the extreme proposition in the context of post-Apartheid South Africa.   

Professor Hook did not advocate taking the extreme measures Delport described. Professor Hook is not advocating, nor does he advocate violence. His effort to understand how extreme thought is developed is the point of the presentation.   

Professor Hook's expertise is in psychoanalysis, and his work considers psychoanalytic dimensions of racism in America and South Africa. He is a highly respected expert, and it is disappointing that his efforts to understand and challenge ideas that are admittedly extreme are being shared out of context to falsely illustrate an advocacy for extreme behavior.  

Thank you for your inquiry.

Gabe”
Updated - September 2, 2021

<a href="https://www.duq.edu/faculty-and-staff/andrea-chiovenda.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrea Chiovenda</a> is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Duquesne University. Chiovenda is a psychological and psychiatric anthropologist who specializes in “psychodynamic and clinical ethnographic research.”

Chiovenda signed a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pde1AOM2Lt-HUkgZnzt4vD-qlI0YNAU-xL78jsBl8K8/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 2023 petition</a> calling for Duquesne University President Ken Gormley to “denounce the violence being carried out against Palestinians in Gaza with the same force with which he rightly condemned Hamas.”

The letter accuses Israel of committing war crimes:
“The United Nations has released numerous statements, now, declaring that Israel’s military actions amount to war crimes and violations of international law. Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention unequivocally prohibits collective punishment of persons for crimes they haven’t committed. At this point, it is clear that Israel is blatantly violating it and that Israel’s actions constitute a war crime.” 
The petition garnered over 150 signatures from graduate students and faculty. <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/college-students-professors-call-on-university-to-condemn-israels-war-crimes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> reports an email was sent to students at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law on October 20 asking for signatures.
“We are sending a final call for signatures on a letter to President Gormley and the Duquesne administration. We emphasize that this letter calls for equity in the university’s acknowledgment of the ongoing suffering and loss of life in the current conflict.” 
The signatories claim there is “nothing contradictory about condemning Hamas and Israel for their war crimes” and demand “that the U.S. withdraw their support for Israel and initiate calls for a ceasefire.”

The College Fix reached out to Duquesne University on November 3 to “clarify its position on whether Israel has committed atrocities in its war against Hamas”; however, the university did not respond.

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Published - November 14, 2023

<a href="https://www.duq.edu/faculty-and-staff/elisabeth-vasko.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elisabeth Vasko</a> is an Associate Professor at Duquesne University. According to her faculty, profile Vasko “is a passionate educator who empowers young people to think critically about their capacity for social change. Her teaching and research examines the intersection of Christian tradition and racialized and gender violence.”

In 2021, Vasko <a href="https://www.newwaysministry.org/homeforall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed a statement from New Ways Ministry</a> supporting “the church’s teaching that LGBTQ people should not suffer discrimination.” Vasko signed her name in agreement with the declaration that says:
“As Catholic theologians, scholars, church leaders, writers, and ministers, we affirm that Catholic teaching presents a positive case for ending discrimination against LGBTQ people. We affirm the Second Vatican Council’s demand that ‘any kind of social or cultural discrimination … must be curbed and eradicated’ (Gaudium et Spes, 29). We affirm that Catholic teaching should not be used to further oppress LGBTQ people by denying rights rooted in their inherent human dignity and in the church’s call for social equality.”
In the past, Vasko also participated in an event involving a Catholic church’s work on racial justice. 

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In her novel <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Beyond_Apathy/qrEvBQAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=beyond+apathy&amp;pg=PA240&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beyond Empathy: A Theology for Bystanders</a>, Vasko wrote:
“As Christians, we are continually called to reckon with what it means to be passionately engaged in the world today. For privileged Christians, this means not only opening our eyes and ears to the violence that surrounds us but also operates within us. The way beyond apathy (for privileged persons) is not easy. It involves a willingness to enter into compassionate solidarity with those who are marginalized.”
Please send tips and information on Professor Elisabeth Vasko to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion

Anti-Judeo-Christian Values

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<a href="https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/isabella-hammad.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Isabella Hammad</a> is an Artist in Residence at New York University. She is also an author and novelist. 
In an interview with <a href="https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2021/summer/always-more-place-conversation-about-palestine-isabella-hammad-keija-parssinen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Literature Today</a>, Hammad discussed her book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parisian-Isabella-Hammad/dp/0802129439" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Parisian</a>.” While discussing her novel’s protagonist “Midhat,” Hammad claims that Western individualism cannot apply to those who are not European or American:
“You could say that Midhat initially embraces a model of Western individualism, which he then realizes doesn’t apply to him, because the model of the Western individual is only available to the white European or American.”
She proceeds to discuss one of her purposes in writing the novel:
“So if it serves an educational purpose in enlightening some readers who, for example, might have fallen victim to the idea that before the state of Israel was created, Palestine was “a land without a people,” then I’ll be happy about that. But I think that in order for such a thing to happen effectively, the book has to succeed as a novel on its own terms, and it must convince the reader aesthetically and emotionally.” 
To close the interview, Hammad addressed her desire for the Palestine/Israel conflict:
“I don’t want to talk about hope—but I can talk about dreaming and desire. What do I desire? No more house demolitions, no more separation wall, no more administrative detention, no more withholding Palestinian corpses, no more separate roads for Palestinians and Israelis, no more deliberately complicated bureaucratic procedures, no more making the act of staying where you live an exhausting act of resistance, no more arms deals with America, no more testing out weapons and surveillance technology on Palestinians, no more ideology that perceives Palestinians as a demographic threat, no more ‘mowing the lawn’ in Gaza, no more night raids, no more stealing water and selling it back, no more siege, no more killing unarmed civilians, no more checkpoints, no more, no more.”
She continued:
“It’s easy to say what you don’t want and harder to say what you do. Let’s start with this: civil and political rights for everyone on the land. My dream is that one day Palestine will no longer be a cause, it will just be a place, where some of us happen to be from, and we could fly into the airport without being interrogated and drive over to Nablus for lunch and then go further up to Akka and swim in the sea . . .”
The <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/upenn-hosting-antisemitic-literature-festival-featuring-speakers-who-said-death-to-israel-donned-nazi-outfit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestine Writes Literature Festival</a> was hosted at the University of Pennsylvania in September 2023, at which Hammad was a <a href="https://palestinewrites.org/participants-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participant</a> speaker and presenter.
The <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/upenn-hosting-antisemitic-literature-festival-featuring-speakers-who-said-death-to-israel-donned-nazi-outfit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reports that the festival featured “speakers who have made ‘antisemitic’ comments, including ‘Death to Israel,’ and someone who has worn a Nazi-style uniform.”
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<a href="https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/arthur-l-caplan">Arthur Caplan</a> is the Dr. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics at New York University (NYU) and Director of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU.

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As <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6690">reported</a> by Campus Reform, Caplan compares Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign to the rise of Adolf Hitler.

In the weeks following Donald Trump’s <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-announces-2016-presidential-campaign-make-country/story?id=31799741">announcement</a> that he would seek the 2016 Republican nomination, Caplan writes in <a href="https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2015/commentary-the-danger-of-laughing-at-donald-trump/">Poynter, </a> a non-profit journalism and research center, that news organizations must hold Trump and the Republican party accountable “for the damage [Trump] does.” Caplan characterizes Trump’s views as racist and legitimizing of those American citizens who fear changing demographics.

While acknowledging that he views Trump’s chances as winning the nomination for the presidency unlikely, Kaplan draws parallels between Trump's campaign and the unexpected rise of Hitler in Germany.

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Caplan further states in the same article that Trump is dangerous and that his speech is a classic ploy to generate fear and sow divisiveness.  Caplan urges journalists to treat more seriously the “danger” that Trump poses. Caplan accuses Trump of characterizing Mexicans as being criminals, rapists, and carrying diseases. Caplan says that these characterizations are similar to the rhetorical tactics used by the Nazi party against the Jews.

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Despite his comparisons of Trump to Hitler, Caplan <a href="http://www.bioethics.net/2005/07/misusing-the-nazi-analogy/">argued</a> against the use of Nazi analogies to describe other people or political movements. In an article for bioethics.net, Caplan <a href="http://www.bioethics.net/2005/07/misusing-the-nazi-analogy/">states</a> that often those who draw analogies in arguments to Nazis, “do not know what they are talking about.”

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In the same article, Kaplan states that it is “ethically incumbent” on those who use these analogies to understand the history behind the Nazis, and not to diminish the horror of their atrocities. Kaplan describes the “cavalier” use of these analogies as “unethical.”

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<a href="http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty/Mark_Crispin_Miller">Dr. Mark Crispin Miller</a>, a professor at New York University warned that President Bush was spreading propaganda in order to form a theocracy in the United States. He also compared Bush to Hitler, saying “All the major war-drives in modern history... in Germany, in the Soviet Union, and in the Middle East -- have been impelled by people who believed that they were at risk, that they were being persecuted, that they faced annihilation. Hitler actually believed that 'world Jewry' threatened Germany, and that his bloody enterprise was a means of self-defense against the Jews. We know all too well that al-Qaeda's people universally regard the Jews and Christians as plotting to wipe out Islam. And the Christo-fascist types now in control of the United States believe that they're the victims of non-Christians."

<a href="https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/ulrich-c-baer.html">Dr. Ulrich Baer</a> is a Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. He wrote an editorial in the New York Times supporting the suppression of free speech on college campuses. He claimed "The idea of freedom of speech does not mean a blanket permission to say anything anybody thinks. It means balancing the inherent value of a given view with the obligation to ensure that other members of a given community can participate in discourse as fully recognized members of that community."

As of January 25, 2024, Husain has been <a href="https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2024/january/statement-by-nyu-spokesperson-john-beckman-regarding-amin-husain.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> by NYU for remarks made about Zionism and Hamas during a teach-in arranged by Students for Justice in Palestine. A shortened video of the talk can be viewed in a report compiled by <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/nyu-prof-tells-students-hamas-atrocities-untrueu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Free Press</a>. 

During the lecture, which took place at The New School, Husain made several controversial statements about the Israel and Palestine conflict. Mentioning other locations that are friendly to Palestinians, the professor suggested such is not the case in a “Zionist city” like New York. He also said he embraced the “Anti-Semitic” epithet that had been attached to him by the <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Amin_Husain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canary Mission</a> for his views on the Palestinian resistance efforts towards Israel:
“I have a petition going around, right, because I’m antisemitic. I won the honors of antisemitic multiple times.”
During the teach-in, Husain explained his solution for those who “don’t like Hamas” and justified the political and military motives of the various Palestinian resistance groups. The professor stated,
 “If you don’t like Hamas.. free the land and the people. But if you don’t like Hamas, also read their <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charter</a> in 2017… These groups are fighting for the liberation of their people and their land. That’s a right. You do it.”
In October 2023, a Change.org <a href="https://www.change.org/p/demand-the-dismissal-of-nyu-professor-amin-hussain-for-promoting-hate-speech">petition</a> was put in place by NYU alumni calling for Husain’s dismissal from the university.

Husain said he participated in the First Intifada riots in Palestine in 1987. <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/nyu-prof-tells-students-hamas-atrocities-untrueu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Free Press</a> noted “At a Times Square rally in 2016, [Husain] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1lhMCj4ESw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>, ‘Living 18 years in Palestine, I was fighting in the first uprising, I was throwing rocks, Molotov cocktails, the like.’”

Concerning the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023, Husain denied that any Israeli citizens were raped or beheaded. He alleges such events to be lies put forth by the media:
“Don’t take what the media says. It’s really important… Because these kind of questions try to put you on the defensive. They try to say. . .‘Oh my God, you’re supporting rapists and people that behead babies,’ both of which, you know… we know it’s not true.”
 As of the publication Husain has yet to comment on his suspension or the statements that prompted it.
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<a href="https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/amh20.html">Amin Husain</a> is a part-time faculty member at New York University and the Pratt Institute. According to the university’s website, Husain’s work focuses on “resistance and liberation, movement generated theory and practice.”

Husain is also confounded and directs the NYC-based activist group, “<a href="https://decolonizethisplace.org/">Decolonize This Place</a>” (DTP).  According to their website, DTP events center around “Indigenous Struggle, Black Liberation, Free Palestine, Global Wage Workers, and De-Gentrification.”

Husain and DTP are known for their extreme rhetoric and aggressive confrontations with law enforcement. Husain and DTP utilize ANTIFA style-tactics during protests. The <a href="https://decolonizethisplace.org/">homepage</a> of DTP regularly features videos of burning police vehicles.

Prior to the Museum of Natural History’s decision to remove their statue of Theodore Roosevelt, Husain joined a chorus of activists demanding that the statue be removed. DTP itself <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c5e0c57d86cc9226827c754/t/5ee7ad184833d0007a2078fd/1592241433767/How+To+Take+Down+A+Monument_Poster.jpg">posted</a> a detailed graphic with instructions on toppling statues.

In January, DTP posted the following graphic for an upcoming <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14391">protest</a> against the NYP. The damage from the protests led by Husain resulted in 13 arrests and over $100,000 in <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/02/15/nyu-professor-founded-anarchist-group-that-attacked-subways-last-month/">damages</a> to the NYC subway system.

As a member of NYC Solidarity With Palestine, Husain is known for using his position to entwine his anti-police and anti-Israel views. Husain projected his radicalism at the June “No To Annexation” rally, hosted by the anti-Israel group <a href="https://www.wolpalestine.com/about">Within Our Lifetimes</a>. Husain can be seen telling the crowd that police "are our enemy" in a video captured by the Middle-East watchdog the <a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/no-to-annexation-anti-israel-rally-abolish-police-israel-american-government-death-to-america">Middle East Research Institute</a>.

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At an Al-Quds Day rally in 2016, Husain spoke <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1lhMCj4ESw&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=325">glowingly</a> of Islamic Jihadists.

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In a piece for <a href="https://theconversation.com/trumps-promotion-of-an-image-of-strength-after-assassination-attempt-borrows-from-authoritarian-playbook-235038" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a>, Ben-Ghiat wrote about the personal and sociopolitical effect of the July 13 assassination attempt on President-Donald Trump. She compared the assassination attempt with attempts made on fascist leaders in the 20th century:

“The effects of the assassination attempt on Trump are so far in line with authoritarian history. Chief among its aftereffects is a boost to Trump’s victimhood persona.” 

Ben-Ghiat continued on the same subject:
“[W]ith each failed attempt, the personality cult themes about the leader’s macho toughness, resilience and invincibility gain credence among his followers. This was certainly the case with Castro and Mussolini, and it has been the case so far with former President Donald Trump.”
The professor further claims that Trump wearing a bandage to cover his gunshot wound is a gesture similar to that of Benito Mussolini, who wore a large bandage on his nose after he was almost assassinated. 

According to Ben-Ghiat, these attempts-–including the one on Trump—have been used throughout history to justify authoritarianism:

“The assassination attempt on Trump may be used as justification for these measures, just as other attacks have been used by other authoritarians in history.”

Ben-Ghiat claims the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, were a “self-coup” by former President Donald Trump that influenced other similar alleged “coups” throughout the world. In a July 2024 blog <a href="https://lucid.substack.com/p/autocrats-like-trump-and-maduro-want" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>, Ben-Ghiat wrote the following:

“Although Trump’s ‘self-coup’ failed (the term used for attempts by incumbents to stay in power illegally), it was influential abroad, inspiring Jair Bolsonaro’s failed Jan. 8, 2023 Brazilian insurrection. Having had a coup that led to a decades-long dictatorship, the Brazilians took the danger of propagating electoral fraud seriously, convicting Bolsonaro for it and banning him from politics until 2030.”  

The professor then drew connections between Chinese head of state Xi Jinping and President-elect Donald Trump:

“When Trump <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/184076/trumps-alarming-new-rant-praising-dictators-shows-media-failing-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praises</a> Chinese head of state Xi Jinping for his ability to rule ‘with an iron fist,’ he is praising a situation in which opposition parties don’t exist, which makes elections moot and ‘simplifies’ political life.”

At the conclusion of her post, Ben-Ghiat claimed President-electTrumps' goal is to do away with elections altogether:

“The endgame of MAGA election denial is not challenging this or that election, but convincing Americans that elections as a practice are unnecessary. Trump would be delighted to relieve us of the ‘burden; of voting, just like Mussolini did for Italians a century ago.”

Around the same time as the publication of The Conversation piece, Ben-Ghiat did an interview with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/13/ruth-ben-ghiat-strongmen-book-authoritarian-playbook">The Guardian</a> titled “Rule of the lawless: what does the authoritarian playbook look like?”

In the interview, Ben-Ghiat claimed that President-elect Trump will greatly benefit from the U.S. Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf">ruling</a> in favor of presidents having broad immunity from criminal prosecution. She also stated that Trump ran for president only to escape legal issues:

“Trump is part of the category of authoritarians who run for office, to get back into office, because they have charges against them, and they must get into power so they can make their legal problems go away. Regular politicians don’t want to run for office if they have indictments or charges, but the strongman must run for office because he must make himself feel safe from prosecution… Authoritarianism is about replacing the rule of law with rule by the lawless…”

In another interview in June with <a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-authoritarian-leaders-dismantle-democracy-trump-orban-netanyahu-meloni-by-ruth-ben-ghiat-2024-06-1-2024-06?h=zqERgfHOrWvhXfSv10C5SHJXn2IpYOHBijyEtez%2fd0M%3d&amp;]" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project Syndicate</a>, Ben-Ghiat focused on Trump’s alleged tyrannical goal regarding presidential immunity: 

“I have no doubt that Trump would try to exert dictatorial power so that he could end his legal troubles and repress his critics and investigators without consequences.”

“Now add Trump’s quest to achieve personal immunity for any crimes he will commit, his efforts to attract more unscrupulous cronies by promising pardons, and his vow to grant police officers immunity from prosecution. It becomes easy to see how the rule of law would be transformed into rule by the lawless, with Trump as chief thug.”

Please send tips and updates on Ruth Ben-Ghiat to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/ruth-ben-ghiat.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat</a> is a Professor of Italian and History at <a href="https://as.nyu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York University</a>. Her <a href="https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/ruth-ben-ghiat.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">professional biography lists her as an expert on fascism, authoritarianism, war, propaganda, and Donald Trump.</a> She is the author of the book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strongmen-Mussolini-Present-Ruth-Ben-Ghiat/dp/1324001542" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Strongman: From Mussolini to the Present</a>,” and frequently makes appearances on CNN and MSNBC.

Dr. Ben-Ghiat frequently criticizes conservatives, characterizing them as violent and an outright threat to democracy. She additionally alleges that supporters of the second-amendment birthed a culture that directly resulted in the January 6th “insurrection.”

In an article for CNN—titled, “Parental control is a smokescreen tactic for right-wing activists”—Dr. Ben-Ghiat <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/opinions/parental-control-smoke-screen-right-wing-activists-ben-ghiat/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denounces parents who object to COVID-19 restrictions in schools</a>.

She is referring to <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/orange-county-parents-protest-vaccine-mandates-at-school-board-meeting/ar-AAPZFid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nation-wide protests occurring at county and district school boards</a>. Peaking during the Fall 2021 semester, parents with <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/education/2021/11/03/virginia-parents-democrats-crt-transgender-policies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school-age children are vocally objecting to mandatory masking, COVID-19 vaccinations, and curriculum containing elements of critical race theory.</a> The epicenter of protests against county school boards stemmed from Loudon County, which saw Board Members <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/27/loudoun-county-parents-demand-resignations-over-sexual-assault/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly participate in a cover-up of a sexual assault in a local high school.</a>

Users can learn more about <a href="https://www.schoolboardwatchlist.org/districts/loudoncountypublicschools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Loudon County and other school boards by visiting TPUSA’s School Board Watchlist</a>.

Dr. Ben-Ghiat describes these parents as elements of the “authoritarian culture” that is eroding democracy. She specifically cites their opposition to mandatory masking and vaccination of children, alleging it stems from a “Q-Anon” belief.

She states that “anti-vaccine militants” and “white-christian evangelicals” are using “parental rights” as a smokescreen to abolish private education. She decries parents allegedly “censoring” books that would teach children about the “centrality of racism and slavery” to this country’s founding. She further criticizes calls for parental control in education, describing it as the installation of “authoritarian culture” in towns and local school boards.

In a separate article for the Washington Post—titled,”<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/26/gun-violence-authoritarianism-normalization/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">America’s Gun Culture is Priming Us for Authoritarianism</a>,”—Dr. Ben-Ghiat alleges the Capitol Riots are the inevitable result of an armed citizenry.

She is referring to the incident surrounding January 6, 2021 at the Capital <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in which a number of protestors breached the Capitol’s Doors during certification of the 2020 Presidential Election</a>, some violently so. Despite claims to the contrary, even the FBI has determined that <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/fbi-confirms-there-was-no-insurrection-on-january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no evidence exists that any rioters coordinated to commit an “insurrection.</a>”

Dr. Ben-Ghiat alleges that general access to lethal weapons enables “mass death” and a “democratic decline” in America. She bizarrely connects the January 6th “insurrection” to civilian ownership of firearms, alleging the later enables “mass death” and desensitizes others to human life.

Dr. Ben-Ghiat further alleges that gun owners are willing to harm others in exchange for their freedoms, alleging that no loss of life seems to deter them:

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She then connects gun ownership to a rise of fascism in America, alleging that dictators controlled masses through a climate of fear and mass death. She states that gun owners are using this same formula to encourage “fundamentalist and cult ideologies'':

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<a href="https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&amp;personid=47170" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deborah Archer</a> is a Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Faculty Director of the Center on Race, Inequity, and the law at NYU School of Law. Courses taught by Archer include the titles “Race and Inequality Colloquium”, “Civil Rights Clinic Seminar”, and “Critical Race Theory Seminar.” The <a href="https://its.law.nyu.edu/courses/description.cfm?id=29639" target="_blank" rel="noopener">description for CRT Seminary</a> says,

“This seminar explores Critical Race Theory, a movement that examines the relationship among race, racism, and the U.S. legal system and the role of law in constructing and upholding racial hierarchy…We will also consider the theoretical promises of CRT, its application to the law, and its practical and theoretical limitations in addressing contemporary legal issues.”

In 2020, Archer published “<a href="https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-wp0/wp-content/uploads/sites/278/2020/10/19130728/White-Mens-Roads-Through-Black-Mens-Homes-Advancing-Racial-Equity-Through-Highway-Reconstruction.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Men’s Road Through Black Men’s Homes”: Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction</a>” in the Vanderbilt Law Review. The paper discusses segregated public transportation in the United States prior to Civil Rights reform. Archer’s introduction says,

“The passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act or the Interstate Highway Act, buoyed both highway construction and the destruction of Black communities. Often under the guise of ‘slum removal,’ federal and state officials' purposes targeted Black communities to make a way for massive highway projects.”

She continued,

“In other communities, the highway spared Black homes but became a permanent racial barrier between white and Black neighborhoods, further entrenching racial segregation and walling off economic opportunities.”

Archer’s efforts and research to end racial segregation continue through the Center on Race, Inequity, and the Law. The Center published a video titled “The Enduring Problem of School Segregation” in which civil rights activists and lawmakers are interviewed regarding the progress of integration in the American education systems.

Archer celebrated a long-awaited victory in Tennessee by posting the following Tweet:
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It’s ridiculous that we have to fight for and celebrate this in 2022, yet here we are. <a href="https://t.co/mJnNb4iUzv">https://t.co/mJnNb4iUzv</a>
— Deborah Archer (@DeborahNArcher) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeborahNArcher/status/1590445275940032512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/srl3.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Leonard</a> is a part-time faculty member at the New York University - Gallatin. Her interests include feminism, history of technology, and cultural criticism. Her university profile says she “works at the intersection of old and new left-wing publications in New York City…Her writing about feminism, work, and technology has been widely published.”

Leonard teaches “<a href="https://gallatin.nyu.edu/academics/courses/2022/SP/pract-ug1460_001.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PRACT-UG1460</a>: The Politics of New Media: How the Internet Works and for Whom.” The course description says,

“We will examine surveillance historically and theoretically, with a focus on the role of emerging technologies. We will work our way up to the early anonymous days of the internet, the rise of social media platforms, and finally the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=edward+snowden&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS1026US1026&amp;ei=gpWHY_LJMtDekPIPnIe3oAQ&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjyku7Iudb7AhVQL0QIHZzDDUQQ4dUDCBA&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=edward+snowden&amp;gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIHCC4QsQMQQzIECAAQQzIECAAQQzIECAAQQzIECAAQQzIECAAQQzIFCAAQgAQyBAgAEEMyBwgAELEDEEMyBQgAEIAEOgoIABBHENYEELADOgQILhBDOhEILhCABBCxAxCDARDHARDRAzoLCC4QsQMQgwEQ1AI6DgguELEDEIMBEMcBENEDOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToICAAQsQMQgwE6CAguEIAEELEDOgUILhCABDoLCC4QgAQQsQMQgwE6CAgAEIAEELEDOgsILhCABBCxAxDUAkoECEEYAEoECEYYAFDCDViYHmCVIGgCcAF4AYABdYgBqgiSAQQxMi4ymAEAoAEByAEIwAEB&amp;sclient=gws-wiz-serp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Snowden</a> revelations, the Trump administration and an understanding of the internet…”

Leonard <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Future_We_Want/7IYpAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-authored a book</a> titled “The Future We Want: Radical Solutions for the 21st Century”. In the introduction, she writes,

“The most grotesque feature of the 2016 election is the razor-thin spectrum of solutions proposed by the front runners to a historic set of problems…no viable candidate [offered] any hope for a radically more equal society: the policies on offer would merely mitigate the dire inequality that has been growing since Reagan…The United States is now, in effect, an oligarchy.”

In the chapter Sex Class, she says, 

“Gender currently divides the working class — women’s struggles are often pushed aside as if they are not half the population — but it shouldn’t be central to our struggle, an asset…The first step toward gender justice would require a reexamination of the nuclear family.”

After the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Leonard — who serves as the editor-in-chief for Lux Magazine — published an opinion editorial titled “<a href="https://lux-magazine.com/article/the-next-abortion-strategy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Next Abortion Strategy</a>.” In the opening paragraph, she writes,

“Some part of me laughs as these conservatives grasping for control over women when somewhere, right now, a pregnant person is self-managing an abortion and a hundred Brett Kavanaughs can’t stop it. We’ve always had abortions and we will tomorrow and the next day.”

Leonard was featured in <a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/nyu-hosts-panel-on-sexual-reproductive-justice-featuring-professor-who-defended-violence-against-pro-life-centers-and-universitys-associate-director-of-sexua/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article from Young America’s Foundation</a> (YAF) after she appeared as a panel member for New York University’s discussion “Sexual &amp; Reproductive Justice.” YAF identified Leonard as a “[defender of] the actions of violent abortion activists following the landmark Dobbs victor in the Supreme Court..”

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<a href="https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/adjunct/danielle-elleman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danielle Elleman</a> is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Columbia School of Social Work, Supervisor of the Bellevue Hospital Victim Services Program, and the Associate Director of New York University’s Center for Sexual and Relationship Respect Services. 

Elleman is a co-host of the Center’s podcast <a href="https://www.nyu.edu/students/health-and-wellness/services/healthy-living/good-sex-at-nyu.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Good Sex @ NYU</a>, where guests join her to discuss sexually explicit topics and answer general questions from students on campus. The podcast homepage — which describes the show as “sometimes serious, sometimes funny, always sex-positive” — says,

“We aim to destigmatize conversations around sex and relationships while providing practical information to NYU students and our community. From stories of pleasure to compassionate insights, you’ll hear NYU community members discuss how they feel about their sexual journey, helpful information on the stigma around sex, education, and so much more!”

In October 2022, Elleman was a participant in NYU’s Student Government Association panel discussion on “Reproductive and Sexual Justice.” The session was closed to the general public but the description on Instagram says the event was held “to spread awareness about advocacy motives and initiatives on campus and beyond.”

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Published - December 1, 2022

<a href="https://www.sps.nyu.edu/homepage/academics/faculty-directory/19002-gabrielle-n-simpson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabrilelle Gambrell</a> is “an Adjunct Instructor in Marketing and Public Relations at New York University (NYU). According to her university profile, she “teaches graduate-level courses in integrated marketing, digital and social media, media relations, corporate communications and more.”

In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzjy8qMUNi4">program</a> for the Dr. Phil Show, Gambrell was consulted for her opinions on censorship and the effect of “offensive” tweets on a person’s job. 

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Responding to Dr. Phil’s question about the censorship of “hate speech,” Gambrell stated: 

“I am extremely in favor of the First Amendment…but we have seen things that happen when social media is not censored…where there’s negativity there should be censorship.” She cited what she deemed were instances of racist, homophobic, and other types of “nasty” behavior recorded on social media posts, but gave no examples.

Gambrell believes that, “In certain instances where [a social media post is] harmful, in certain instances where it can hurt people, where there’s negative intent, there should be censorship.” 

The NYU professor — who formerly held jobs in U.S. media — went on to say she feels satisfaction when users of hate speech lose their jobs because of what they posted on social media:
“In some instances where I see viral videos where someone is clearly racist or homophobic or anything nasty and then the video goes viral, they lose their job, I’m like ‘score’ because that person does not deserve to have this title which can impact certain communities, they need to work on themselves.”
Gambrell’s <a href="https://www.giftofgabrielle.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> states that she is “a champion for diversity, equity and inclusion,” which are also problems she seeks to solve through “e​​xecutive, corporate and brand consulting services.”
Published - January 30, 2023

<a href="https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/isabella-hammad.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Isabella Hammad</a> is an Artist in Residence at New York University. She is also an author and novelist. 

In an interview with <a href="https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2021/summer/always-more-place-conversation-about-palestine-isabella-hammad-keija-parssinen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Literature Today</a>, Hammad discussed her book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parisian-Isabella-Hammad/dp/0802129439" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Parisian</a>.” While discussing her novel’s protagonist “Midhat,” Hammad claims that Western individualism cannot apply to those who are not European or American:
“You could say that Midhat initially embraces a model of Western individualism, which he then realizes doesn’t apply to him, because the model of the Western individual is only available to the white European or American.”
She proceeds to discuss one of her purposes in writing the novel:
“So if it serves an educational purpose in enlightening some readers who, for example, might have fallen victim to the idea that before the state of Israel was created, Palestine was “a land without a people,” then I’ll be happy about that. But I think that in order for such a thing to happen effectively, the book has to succeed as a novel on its own terms, and it must convince the reader aesthetically and emotionally.” 
To close the interview, Hammad addressed her desire for the Palestine/Israel conflict:
“I don’t want to talk about hope—but I can talk about dreaming and desire. What do I desire? No more house demolitions, no more separation wall, no more administrative detention, no more withholding Palestinian corpses, no more separate roads for Palestinians and Israelis, no more deliberately complicated bureaucratic procedures, no more making the act of staying where you live an exhausting act of resistance, no more arms deals with America, no more testing out weapons and surveillance technology on Palestinians, no more ideology that perceives Palestinians as a demographic threat, no more ‘mowing the lawn’ in Gaza, no more night raids, no more stealing water and selling it back, no more siege, no more killing unarmed civilians, no more checkpoints, no more, no more.”
She continued:
“It’s easy to say what you don’t want and harder to say what you do. Let’s start with this: civil and political rights for everyone on the land. My dream is that one day Palestine will no longer be a cause, it will just be a place, where some of us happen to be from, and we could fly into the airport without being interrogated and drive over to Nablus for lunch and then go further up to Akka and swim in the sea . . .”
The <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/upenn-hosting-antisemitic-literature-festival-featuring-speakers-who-said-death-to-israel-donned-nazi-outfit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestine Writes Literature Festival</a> was hosted at the University of Pennsylvania in September 2023, at which Hammad was a <a href="https://palestinewrites.org/participants-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participant</a> speaker and presenter.

The <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/upenn-hosting-antisemitic-literature-festival-featuring-speakers-who-said-death-to-israel-donned-nazi-outfit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reports that the festival featured “speakers who have made ‘antisemitic’ comments, including ‘Death to Israel,’ and someone who has worn a Nazi-style uniform.”
Published - October 20, 2023

<a href="https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/chenjerai-kumanyika/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chenjerai Kumanyika</a> is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at New York University. According to his faculty profile, “Kumanyika specializes in using narrative non-fiction audio journalism to critique the ideology of American historical myths about issues such as race, the Civil War, and policing.”

RACE IDEOLOGY

During his time as a professor at Rutgers University, Kumanyika was featured in a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/rutgers-journalism-prof-claims-language-matters-compares-death-cult-gop-fecal-matter/16410" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> article titled “Rutgers journalism prof claims ‘language matters,’ then compares ‘death cult’ GOP to ‘fecal matter.’” The source said, “In February [2020], [Kumanyika] appeared at an event with Boston University for Anti-Racist Research Director Ibram Kendi in which he declared that ‘language matters.’”

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Kumanyika called conservatives “fecal matter” on social media and told his “liberal friends” to “call out” and “organize against” the Biden-Harris administration if they tried to work with opposition leaders. 
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You don't have to wait and "work with them" for two years as Republicans work to shit out something even more putrid in 2022. <a href="https://t.co/5ROCfjAeDx">https://t.co/5ROCfjAeDx</a>
— Chenjerai Kumanyika (@catchatweetdown) <a href="https://twitter.com/catchatweetdown/status/1331002330284765186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In a 2020 Resilience article called “Seeing White: Chenjerai’s Challenge,” Kumanyika provides a transcript of a podcast where he asked the host <a href="https://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/john-biewen-joins-kenan-institute-for-ethics-as-director-of-storytelling-and-public-engagement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Biewen</a>, “How attached are you to the idea of being white?” Kumanyika also posed questions such as, “[W]hen was whiteness good? It’s kind of like, when was America great?” Later in the episode, he told Biewen:

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Send tips, updates, and information on Chenjerai Kumanyika to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Eugene Zdziarski

<a href="http://offices.depaul.edu/student-affairs/about/staff-directory/Pages/eugene-zdziarski.aspx">Dr. Eugene Zdziarski </a>is the Vice President of Student Affairs at DePaul University, Chicago. Students attending DePaul are not allowed to chalk political messages around campus. In a campus-wide email Zdziarski said, “The university has been addressing campus climate issues in an effort to provide an inclusive and supportive educational environment. In this context, many students, faculty and staff found the chalk messages offensive, hurtful and divisive.” These messages included pro-Trump and pro-police slogans.
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<a href="https://offices.depaul.edu/mission-ministry/about/contact-us/Pages/Abdul-Malik-Ryan.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abdul-Malik Ryan</a> is the Assistant Director of Religious Diversity and Pastoral Care at <a href="https://www.depaul.edu/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DePaul University</a> in Chicago, Illinois.

Ryan routinely alleges on his <a href="https://twitter.com/chaplainabunoor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal Twitter account</a> that white supremacy is embedded into American society. Several of these tweets are listed below.
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"Confederate statutes and Memorials are the idols of white supremacy" <a href="https://twitter.com/omarsuleiman504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@omarsuleiman504</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MASCON2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#MASCON2017</a>
— Abdul-Malik Ryan (@chaplainabunoor) <a href="https://twitter.com/chaplainabunoor/status/946176601766719489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 28, 2017</a></blockquote>
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If one didn't understand the dynamics of race/white supremacy, almost nothing about US politics would make any sense. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/theideathatgoprepresentsreligiousvaluesisajoke?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#theideathatgoprepresentsreligiousvaluesisajoke</a>
— Abdul-Malik Ryan (@chaplainabunoor) <a href="https://twitter.com/chaplainabunoor/status/957988132766519296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In additional tweets <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/05/26/meet-depauls-radical-director-of-religious-diversity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uncovered</a> by Breitbart News, Abdul-Malik Ryan quotes the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/court-rules-militant-rap-brown-64679973" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> cop killer H. Rap Brown, also known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
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"Allah holds Islam out to us and it is a serious thing. We are not going to stay standing still; we are either going up or down."<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImamJamil?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ImamJamil</a>
— Abdul-Malik Ryan (@chaplainabunoor) <a href="https://twitter.com/chaplainabunoor/status/688526633779769344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 17, 2016</a></blockquote>
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— Abdul-Malik Ryan (@chaplainabunoor) <a href="https://twitter.com/chaplainabunoor/status/756491823766528000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://abunooralirlandee.wordpress.com/">While writing for his personal blog</a>, Ryan praised Islamic terrorists and openly called for jihad. Ryan was identified as the author of the blog—titled, "Abu Noor Al-Irlandee,"—<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090302111536/https://muslimmatters.org/about/mm-associates/">by the site MuslimMatters</a>.

In a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081021002740/http://abunooralirlandee.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/alternative-visions-part-3a-shaykh-anwar-al-awlaki/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now-deleted post</a>, he extols Anwar al-Awlaki, the former leader of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, as an articulate and “fearless” speaker. Al-Awlaki <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anwar-al-Awlaki" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was the mastermind </a>behind the Fort Hood Shooting and the attempted Christmas Day bombing attack of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 to Detroit, Michigan.

Ryan <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081021002740/http://abunooralirlandee.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/alternative-visions-part-3a-shaykh-anwar-al-awlaki/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">further applauds</a> the “Mujahideen,” or Islamic guerrilla fighters, for resisting the American presence in Iraq and bringing an “Islamic revival” that will establish an Islamic State in the Middle East.

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In 2008, Ryan posted a “nasheed” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/09/nasheed-how-isis-got-its-anthem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sung</a> by Islamic jihadists and fundamentalists. Nasheeds are religious Capellas that are popular in the Muslim world. In this particular one–titled, "Ghurabaa,"—<a href="https://abunooralirlandee.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/rebel-nasheed-of-the-day-ghurabaa/">the lyrics feature a chant that calls for jihad</a>.

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According to the website, Muslim Matters, Ryan <a href="https://muslimmatters.org/author/abdul-malik-ryan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">converted</a> to Islam in 1994, accrediting heavy influence from <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Malcolm-X" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Malcolm X,</a> the National Representative for the Nation of Islam and a prominent black nationalist.

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You may contact the Division of Mission and Ministry at DePaul University at (312) 362-8000
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<a href="http://offices.depaul.edu/student-affairs/about/staff-directory/Pages/eugene-zdziarski.aspx">Dr. Eugene Zdziarski </a>is the Vice President of Student Affairs at DePaul University, Chicago. Students attending DePaul are not allowed to chalk political messages around campus. In a campus-wide email Zdziarski said, “The university has been addressing campus climate issues in an effort to provide an inclusive and supportive educational environment. In this context, many students, faculty and staff found the chalk messages offensive, hurtful and divisive.” These messages included pro-Trump and pro-police slogans.

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<a href="http://las.depaul.edu/academics/political-science/faculty/Pages/valerie-johnson.aspx">Dr. Valerie Johnson</a> is an Associate Professor of Urban Politics at DePaul University. Dr. Johnson encouraged and assisted students in disrupting a campus event featuring Milo Yiannopoulos. Student Edward Ward, a protege of Johnson, allegedly threatened Mr. Yiannopoulos physically on stage during the disruption.

Dr. Sumi Cho is a <a href="https://law.depaul.edu/faculty-and-staff/Documents/Cho%20cv.10.2018.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tenured law professor at DePaul University College of Law.</a> Dr. Cho lectures on many subjects for the university but most commonly teaches a Critical Race Theory seminar and courses on Employment Discrimination, Feminist Jurisprudence, and Race, Racism &amp; U.S. Law.

In 2018, DePaul University <a href="https://depauliaonline.com/38281/news/front-news-law-school/">began an investigation into Dr. Cho</a> after claims of “disruptive, bullying workplace behavior” came to light. Pending an internal investigation, she faced two years of unpaid suspension. Dr. Cho then countersued against DePaul University and the law school’s Dean. In the suit against the Dean, Dr. Cho alleged she was retaliated against for being outspoken on racial issues and discrimination within the law school, claiming she and others were racially discriminated against. In the suit against the university, she claimed she was not getting equal pay to white, male cohorts. <a href="https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/a-recent-spate-of-gender-discrimination-and-equal-pay-lawsuits-filed-by-female-law-professors-has-shined-a-light-on-the-otherwise-opaque-academic-compensation-process">The university eventually settled in mediation.</a>

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In August 2021, Dr. Cho was one of the core faculty members at the AAPF’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210813210238/https://www.aapf.org/crtsummerschool" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CRT Summer School event</a>. She lectured on racism in the United States and was <a href="https://twitter.com/JossTGreene/status/1425852304046104585" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quoted by Joss Greene</a>, an attendee and postdoctoral fellow, as stating that “anti-blackness is at the root of antidemocratic projects.” Another attendee quoted Dr. Cho accusing conservatives of “co-opting and commandeering the liberal concept of academic freedom to be used as a sword and shield, in terms of ideological warfare.” Dr. Cho was also quoted asserting that today’s bans on CRT in schools are precursors to “school vouchers and white segregation academies.” The Twitter user has since made their profile private.

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Dr. Cho has been featured many times as a “legal scholar”  on a Q&amp;A website titled, <a href="https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Race: The Power of an Illusion”</a> discussing several subjects. Dr. Cho <a href="https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/qa/why-do-recent-immigrants-do-better-african-americans-socioeconomically" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accuses conservatives of pushing</a> a false distinction, not only between race and ethnicity, but also immigrants vs. African Americans. She criticizes conservatives by arguing that they use Asian Americans as the example for why affirmative action is not necessary for other minorities.

<a href="https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/qa/are-reparations-slavery-appropriate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In another Q&amp;A</a>, Dr. Cho details the necessity for reparations for slavery. She writes that she thinks reparations are absolutely necessary. She believes that both individual payments and payments to African American institutions are crucial to make things “equitable”.

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Correction: A previous version of this profile stated the court dismissed the racial claims in Dr. Cho’s lawsuit. The case was allowed to proceed in part before it was settled in mediation in accordance with the Equal Pay Act. The profile has since been corrected.

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Updated - August 22, 2022

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<a href="https://divinity.uchicago.edu/directory/olivia-bustion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Olivia Bustion</a> is a doctoral theology candidate and Martin Marty Center Fellow at the University of Chicago. Bustion is teaching an autumn 2023 course through the Religious Studies Department titled, “<a href="http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/religiousstudies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queering God</a>.”
The course <a href="https://thechicagothinker.com/is-god-queer-uchicagos-religious-studies-department-wants-to-know/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promises to discuss questions</a> such as: 
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Can God be an ally in queer worldmaking?”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Is God queer?” </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“What does queerness have to do with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam?” </li>
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Further, the course description reads:
“This course introduces students to foundational concepts in queer and trans studies by focusing on queer Jewish, Christian, and Islamic theologies. We will analyze the ways that contemporary artists, activists, and scholars are using theology to reimagine gender and experiment with new relational forms. Our readings will include a variety of genres: memoir, letters, scriptural interpretation, and a novel.” 
<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/is-god-queer-university-of-chicago-course-asks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> wrote about Bastion’s University of Michigan doctoral thesis that “focused on the homosexual tendencies of a British poet named W.H. Auden.” Her paper was titled “<a href="https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/96141/obustion_1.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queering the City of God</a>” and her “thesis relied on the work of Leo Bersani, an essayist who published a collection titled ‘Is the Rectum a Grave?’”
“Auden, according to the thesis, wrote a ‘prayer [that] gives gay sex a place in Christian worship. In her thesis, she ‘examines key moments in Auden’s conceptualization of a calling the aligns the charism of same-sex eros with anti-imperialist prophetic critique—from the prayerful question of ‘In Sickness and in Health’ to the playful answer of ‘The Garrison.’” 
The College Fix argues:
“The problem with the course is not just its fundamentally flawed assertion that God could be ‘queer,’ but that it is given an air of respectability by the University of Chicago.”
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<a href="https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/bruce-cumings">Dr. Bruce Cumings</a> is a Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Dr. Cumings placed most of the blame of North Korea’s problems on the United States, while also whitewashing problems in Korea.  For example, Cumings denies the existence of a massive famine in North Korea in the 1990s. Cumings blames the United States for North Korea’s problems, not Communism.

<a href="https://billayers.org/biographyhistory/">Dr. William Ayers</a> is a <a href="https://creativewriting.uchicago.edu/people/william-ayers">member</a> of the Visiting Faculty and Lecturers at the University of Chicago and is formerly a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Ayers was the leader of the “Weather Underground” group responsible for setting off bombs that destroyed government property and infrastructure. Of his group, he said, "We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men ... deeply affected by the historic events of our time in the struggle against U.S. imperialism."

Dr. Emily Landon is an<a href="https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/find-a-physician/physician/emily-landon" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago.</a> Landon specializes in infectious diseases and is a leader of the “academic health system’s infection control and prevention efforts.”

Dr. Landon was featured in a September 2022 BuzzFeed News article titled<a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katiecamero/is-the-pandemic-really-over" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> “No, The Pandemic Isn’t Really Over. Here’s Why.”</a> The article was in response to President Biden’s September 18 interview with 60 Minutes where he said: “The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over.” Landon stated:
“The problem with Biden’s message is that it doubles down on this idea that we don’t really need to worry about COVID anymore … That messaging discourages people from keeping their vigilance up; it discourages people from putting on a mask in a high-risk situation; and it discourages people from getting those really essential boosters.”
 She continued:
“I really don’t think that people are quite as fatigued by the pandemic as they are of change. And while there’s still going to be some change to come, I think we have to do what we can to soothe and ameliorate the changes by avoiding saying things like the pandemic is over, which just creates whiplash.”
<a href="https://thechicagothinker.com/meet-dr-emily-landon-the-face-of-uchicagos-anti-science-covid-decrees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago Thinker</a> reports that Landon “crassly and inappropriately mocks the unvaccinated, retweeting posts that depict them as being low-class and incapable of independent research.”
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Dr. Landon has been very outspoken about her belief that everyone should get vaccinated. In a<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/fda-cdc-second-covid-19-booster-shots-moderna-pfizer-approved/?mkt_tok=MjUwLUNRSC05MzYAAAGDf_fgDphij0DOs6GGRDdZ4GoZ0TZKCkBJOcD5CVHS6_xf6k_s2oq-d1gpKCUW286EDJEEiS6Rwu8QPWA3Lm73Ury4bRl0rjwYrEXVL41JAKT5" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> CBS Chicago</a> article, she said:
“If you find yourself saying: ‘I can’t believe they’re asking me to get another stupid booster. When are they going to stop with this crap?’ you know, I think you need [to] take a little stock of where you are, and what luck you had, and what privilege you have to be in a place to say that about yourself.” 
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<a href="https://globalstudies.uchicago.edu/people/rebecca-journey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rebecca Journey</a> is a Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Journey teaches a course in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies program titled “The Problem of Whiteness.”

The <a href="http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/comparativeraceethnicstudies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course description</a> states “whiteness has long functioned as an “unmarked” racial category” and has “resurfaced as a conspicuous problem within liberal political discourse.” The seminar will examine “the problem of whiteness through an anthropological lens, drawing from classic and contemporary works of critical race theory.”

Daniel Schmidt, a sophomore student at the University of Chicago, <a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/uchicago-professor-seeks-discipline-action-against-student-who-exposed-her-racist-course/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared details about the course</a> in a <a href="https://twitter.com/RealDSchmidt/status/1587557829476777984" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter thread</a> that went viral.

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After the post, Journey claims she received death threats and was the victim of online harassment. According to the <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2022/11/19/23467967/whiteness-course-triggers-online-harassment-death-threats-university-chicago-instructor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago Sun-Times</a>, Journey defended the course saying, “The class is emphatically not about ‘the problem with white people.’ The class approaches whiteness as a problem in the philosophical sense of an open question …[with] whiteness as an object of critical inquiry.”

Professor Journey believes that Schmidt “deliberately misrepresented” her course “to stoke white grievance on social media:”
“I want to stress that these attacks are the direct consequence of this student’s targeted cyberbullying campaign. This was a malicious attack not just on me as a teacher but on anti-racist pedagogy writ large.” 
The University of Chicago issued a statement supporting Journey and the “freedom of instructors to teach any course that has been developed through our faculty-led curricular process.” However, Journey is calling for disciplinary action against Schmidt, saying the university should issue a public condemnation of the student’s actions.

The course is scheduled to begin in Spring 2023.

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Published - December 9, 2022

<a href="https://divinity.uchicago.edu/directory/olivia-bustion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Olivia Bustion</a> is a doctoral theology candidate and Martin Marty Center Fellow at the University of Chicago. Bustion is teaching an autumn 2023 course through the Religious Studies Department titled, “<a href="http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/religiousstudies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queering God</a>.”

The course <a href="https://thechicagothinker.com/is-god-queer-uchicagos-religious-studies-department-wants-to-know/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promises to discuss questions</a> such as: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Can God be an ally in queer worldmaking?”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Is God queer?” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“What does queerness have to do with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam?” </li>
</ul>
Further, the course description reads:
“This course introduces students to foundational concepts in queer and trans studies by focusing on queer Jewish, Christian, and Islamic theologies. We will analyze the ways that contemporary artists, activists, and scholars are using theology to reimagine gender and experiment with new relational forms. Our readings will include a variety of genres: memoir, letters, scriptural interpretation, and a novel.” 
<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/is-god-queer-university-of-chicago-course-asks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> wrote about Bastion’s University of Michigan doctoral thesis that “focused on the homosexual tendencies of a British poet named W.H. Auden.” Her paper was titled “<a href="https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/96141/obustion_1.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queering the City of God</a>” and her “thesis relied on the work of Leo Bersani, an essayist who published a collection titled ‘Is the Rectum a Grave?’”
“Auden, according to the thesis, wrote a ‘prayer [that] gives gay sex a place in Christian worship. In her thesis, she ‘examines key moments in Auden’s conceptualization of a calling the aligns the charism of same-sex eros with anti-imperialist prophetic critique—from the prayerful question of ‘In Sickness and in Health’ to the playful answer of ‘The Garrison.’” 
The College Fix argues:
“The problem with the course is not just its fundamentally flawed assertion that God could be ‘queer,’ but that it is given an air of respectability by the University of Chicago.”
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Published - August 10, 2023

<a href="https://humdev.uchicago.edu/directory/Eman-Abdelhadi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eman Abdelhadi</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include religion, gender, identity, and demography.

After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Abdelhadi <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24238" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a statement</a> titled, “Writers in Solidarity with Palestine.” The letter begins, “We are writers who unequivocally stand with Palestine and its fight for liberation against the illegal occupation of ‘Israel’ and the violent settler colonial apartheid state.”

Some of the letter’s claims include: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The west is actively backing the ongoing settler colonial project that endorses either a slow or fast genocide, but is genocide either way.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Any form of Palestinian resistance is in no way equivalent to the daily violence of ‘Israeli’ settlers, the IOF (‘Israeli’ Occupying Forces), and the entire ‘Israeli’ state apparatus. Palestinian resistance exists because settler colonial occupation exists.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The resistance is an ongoing response to a long history of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Politicians at all levels of government internationally, primarily those in the west, are deliberately weaponizing islamophobic and orientalist language in order to manufacture consent for genocide in Palestine, heighten surveillance and policing domestically, and suppress any manner of showing solidarity with Palestine.” </li>
</ul>
The writers end with several “calls to action” for the signatories and their institutions, including: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To stand in firm, vocal, and unwavering solidarity with Palestinian resistance against their occupation until liberation, by amplifying Palestinian voices in a time of mass disinformation and silencing; and by openly discussing the occupation in your workplace, home, on social media, in your work.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To boycott all other literary institutions who profess Zionist affiliations.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To engage with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Palestinian-led movement to end international support for ‘Israel’s’ oppression of Palestinians and all institutions complicit in ‘Israeli’ apartheid and settler colonialism.” </li>
</ul>
The statement has since been removed but can still be found on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231019194337/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UVp2E4VoBgXTOYDs6BAAWI8fiaEUqFLOHoN50LKy4oI/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internet archives</a>.

Abdelhadi has shared similar sentiments on her <a href="https://twitter.com/emanabdelhadi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X (formerly known as Twitter) account</a>. Some of her posts include:

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Please send any information regarding Eman Abdelhadi to <a href="mailto:watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

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Published - November 6, 2023

Sexualization

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<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/josh-rottman.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joshua Rottman</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Scientific &amp; Philosophical Studies of Mind at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to his university profile, “Rottman&#8217;s research lies at the intersection of cognitive development and moral psychology. His work primarily focuses on children&#8217;s acquisition of moral norms, the role of disgust in moral judgment, and cognitive precursors of environmentalist ethics.” 
Rottman was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”
Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 
Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”
The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”
The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 
They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Joshua Rottman to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published &#8211; April 5, 2024

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<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/quincy-amoah.html">Quincy Amoah</a> is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology/Africana Studies at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

According to his university profile, Amoah “is obsessed with cattle, Nilotic [i.e. pertaining to the Nile River] ‘apparently irrational beliefs,’ and the meaning of ‘good’ when one and their community are dedicated to brigandage.”

Amoah was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America's Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Quincy Amoah to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - March 28, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/stephanie-mcnulty.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephanie McNulty</a> is the Honorable and Mrs. John C. Kunkel Professor of Government at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. McNulty’s university profile states she is a “Latin Americanist with expertise in participatory governance, gender, decentralization, and development.”

In March 2021, McNulty co-authored an <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/03/12/colleges-must-acknowledge-challenges-facing-female-academics-who-juggle-work-and#.YHTMhYqX9L4.link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on equity. The authors put forth the following goal to resolve what they deem to be the lessening of diversity and equity caused by COVID-19:
“For starters, every institution must acknowledge the problem and openly address what can appear invisible and ignored to those of us living in this reality. The academy risks emerging from this pandemic with less diversity and gender equity than before unless we change course. The first step is initiating a conversation and listening. Once people have a space to talk openly about their challenges, a lot of problem solving and solutions naturally emerge.”\
McNulty was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Stephanie McNulty to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 2, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/maria-elena-aldea-agudo.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maria Elena Aldea Agudo</a> is a Senior Teaching Professor of Spanish and Director of the Spanish Language Center at Franklin and Marshall College. 

Aldea Agudo’s university profile describes her academic interest in Spanish history and how it has varied through the years:
“Initially, her scholarship focused on analyzing the idealized representations of war and heroic subjects by Spanish Fascist (Falangist) propaganda in the 1940s.
“After the 2008 economic crisis, her research examined the cinematic and literary depiction of that economic crisis in Spain and how identities were negotiated in this harsh situation. 
“Currently, her work focuses on trauma informed pedagogy.”
Aldea Agudo was one of 125 Franklin and Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Maria Elena Aldea Agudo to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 3, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/erik-anderson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erik Anderson</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to his university profile, Anderson “specializes in creative nonfiction, with an emphasis on the literary essay, science writing, and hybrid/experimental forms. His current writing projects address topics as various as whiteness, pop music, and kinesthesia.” 

Anderson was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Erik Anderson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/christine-chalifoux.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christine Chalifoux</a> is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her university profile states, “Her research explores how people forge kinship bonds across ethnic lines in a city where stereotypes bear the weight of colonial and postcolonial histories. She is also interested in rethinking the notions of both caregiving and resistance, and all of her work grapples with the dialectical relationship between intimacy and resentment.”

Chalifoux was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Christine Chalifoux to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/zohra-ansari-thomas.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zohra Ansari-Thomas</a> is an Assistant Professor of Public Health &amp; Sociology at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Ansari-Thomas’s university profile states her “research uses survey data and quantitative methods to examine social and structural inequalities in population health.”

Ansari-Thomas was one of 125 Franklin and Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Zohra Ansari-Thomas to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/jaime-blair.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jaime Blair</a> is a Professor of Biology and the Program Chair of Women's, Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

Blair was one of 125 Franklin and Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Jaime Blair to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/tim-bechtel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Bechtel</a> is the Director of F&amp;M Science Outreach &amp; Senior Teaching Professor of Geosciences at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

Bechtel was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America's Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Tim Bechtel to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/susan-dicklitch-nelson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susan Dicklitch-Nelson</a> is a Professor of Government at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her university profile states that her “research focuses on human rights, specifically Global LGBTI human rights, civil society and democracy.” 

According to the same profile, Dicklitch-Nelson is also “the founder and Principal Investigator (PI) of the <a href="https://www.fandmglobalbarometers.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">F&amp;M Global Barometers,</a>which include the F&amp;M Global Barometer of Gay RightsTM (F&amp;M GBGR) and the F&amp;M Global Barometer of Transgender RightsTM (F&amp;M GBTR). The F&amp;M Global Barometers are part of the LGBTI Global Human Rights Initiative.”  

Moreover, Dicklitch-Nelson “launched the <a href="https://www.lgbtqiperceptionindex.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQI Perception Index</a>: the first-ever global survey that seeks to shed light on the lived human rights realities of LGBTQI individuals in 204 countries. The LGBTQI Perception Index will complement the <a href="https://www.fandmglobalbarometers.org/summit-for-democracy-2021/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQI Human Rights Report Cards</a> that were prepared for the <a href="https://www.state.gov/summit-for-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House Summit for Democracy</a>.”

Dicklitch-Nelson was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Susan Dicklitch-Nelson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/bridget-guarasci.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bridget Guarasci</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Guarasci “is an environmental anthropologist whose work examines how war and conflict create ecological life in the Arab majority world … Her scholarship analyzes how the material effects of emplacing water ecologies is a form of political violence.”

Guarasci was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
 Please send information on Bridget Guarasci to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/shari-goldberg.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shari Goldberg</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her areas of specialization include:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Care and Care Practices”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Illness and Disability”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“History of Psychology, especially Hypnotism and Trauma”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Witnessing and Human Rights”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Literary Theory”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Restivism: the advocacy of rest, through restorative means”</li>
</ul>
Goldberg was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Shari Goldberg to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 4, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/abby-schrader.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby M. Schrader</a> is a Professor of History and the Department Chair of History at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her university profile states that she specializes in Russian literature. Additionally, she writes: 
“At F&amp;M, my teaching reflects my interests in Russian/Soviet and 18th- and 19th-century European history. I incorporate issues related to culture (including literary and visual culture), gender and sexuality, politics broadly conceived, and social trends in all of my courses.”  
Schrader was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Abby M. Schrader to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/josh-rottman.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joshua Rottman</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Scientific &amp; Philosophical Studies of Mind at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to his university profile, “Rottman's research lies at the intersection of cognitive development and moral psychology. His work primarily focuses on children's acquisition of moral norms, the role of disgust in moral judgment, and cognitive precursors of environmentalist ethics.” 

Rottman was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Joshua Rottman to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/nicholas-montemarano.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nicholas Montemarano</a> is the Alumni Professor of Creative Writing and Belles Lettres and a Professor of English at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

Montemarano was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Nicholas Montemarano to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/van-gosse.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Van Gosse</a> is a Professor of History at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to his university profile, Gosse states that his “teaching and scholarship have focused on the African American struggle for citizenship, and politics and culture in the Global Cold War.”

Gosse was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Van Gosse to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/peter-fields.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Fields</a> is the Dr. E. Paul &amp; Frances H. Reiff Professor of Biology at Franklin &amp; Marshall University. According to his university profile, Fields’ research focuses on “the biochemical origins of coral bleaching [and] molecular dynamics simulations to describe the effect of environmental stresses on protein function.”

Fields was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Peter Fields to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/barbara-nimershiem.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barbara E. Nimershiem</a> is a Professor of Mathematics at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. 

Nimershiem was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Barbara E. Nimershiem to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/clara-moore.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clara S. Moore</a> is a Professor of Biology at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Moore researches “Mouse models for Down syndrome, [and the] effects of trisomy on cardiovascular, skeletal, hematopoietic, and other systems during development.”

Moore was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Clara S. Moore to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/jeremy-moss.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy Moss</a> is an Associate Professor of Film, the Film &amp; Media Program Director, and the Department Chair of Art, Art History &amp; Film at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to his university profile, “Jeremy Moss is a filmmaker whose recent experimental works explore fluidity, betweenness, and transgression: unstable boundaries, wavering bodies, shifting landscapes, unsteady frames.”

Moss was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Jeremy Moss to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/leanne-roncolato.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leanne M. Roncolato</a> is an Associate Professor of Economics at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Roncolato has “previously worked at the International [sic] Labour Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Her early publications include work on international trade, structural change, and informal employment. Recently, she has been doing research on the economics of gay and lesbian households, the gendered division of care labor, and the economic experience of NYC subway dancers.” 

Roncolato was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Leanne M. Roncolato to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/nadra-hebouche.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nadra Hebouche</a> is an Associate Professor of Francophone Studies and French and Department Chair of French,Francophone Studies at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. Her university profile states that she researches “Francophone postcolonial literature, migrant literature, diasporic identities, [and] ecocriticism.”

Hebouche was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Nadra Hebouche to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/hollie-tripp.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollie L. Tripp</a> is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Tripp researches the following topics:
“[Tripp] researches individual decision-making behavior and government actions to conduct evaluations of public health policies. For example, she evaluated the Affordable Care Act by using qualitative research to explore how individuals navigated the marketplaces and quantitative research of how state variation of those websites affected user experience. Presently, she is using Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing platform, to understand how individuals make risky decisions about uncertain health outcomes. This study is being used to better understand individual responses to cigarette warning labels and inform tobacco regulations.” 
Tripp was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Hollie L. Tripp to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 5, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/firuzeh-shokooh-valle.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Firuzeh Shokooh Valle</a> is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Franklin &amp; Marshall College. According to her university profile, Valle “is a feminist sociologist and journalist from Puerto Rico. Her research examines how global development policy and discourse frames the relationships between gender, technology, and science, and the ways in which feminist digital activists mobilize around these issues in Latin America and other regions of the global South. Her work is located within a southern political geography that is in contention with the legacy, and persistence, of colonialism.”

Valle was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.”
Please send information on Firuzeh Shokooh Valle to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 10, 2024

<a href="https://www.fandm.edu/directory/elspeth-wilson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elspeth M. Wilson</a> is an Assistant Professor of Government at Franklin &amp; Marshall University. According to her faculty profile, Wilson’s “scholarship focuses on U.S. citizenship, civil rights, constitutional interpretation, and American political development. She is particularly interested in the problem of civic inequality in the United States and its connection to immigration policy and reproductive law. Her current book project, based on her dissertation (“The Reproduction of Citizenship”), examines how laws and judicial decisions targeting the intimate lives of Americans have shaped hierarchies in U.S. citizenship—particularly involving gender, race, class, religion, and sexuality—throughout the twentieth century.”  

Wilson was one of 125 Franklin &amp; Marshall faculty members who jointly signed a <a href="https://yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Letter20of20Solidarity20Final.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to “denounce the [university’s] choice to invite transphobic speaker Paula Scanlan to our campus on March 27, in close proximity to Transgender Day of Visibility.”

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of “transgender” swimmer Lia Thomas, previously William Thomas, who swam on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan has <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sno54-the-university-wanted-us-to-be-quiet-lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-to-matt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> that she was uncomfortable with Thomas being a member of the team due to his gender and felt her female teammates were overlooked in favor of Thomas’s greater strength and athleticism. 

Scanlan embarked on a lecture tour in partnership with Young America’s Foundation during the Spring 2024 semester to discuss her college swim experience at universities across the country. Her lecture was titled “Biological Men Should Not Compete in Women’s Sports.”

The faculty who wrote the letter state that Scanlan “is working with a well-funded, far-right ‘culture war’ machine that seeks to sow division, provoke backlash, generate publicity, and weaken public confidence in higher education.”

The writers further claim that Scanlan is “transphobic” because of her statements about Thomas. They say Scanlan has “refused to acknowledge the identity of the trans community:” 
“In videos of her campus visits available online, we have seen Scanlan disrespect, misgender, and mock trans people. Scanlan also has a history of (a) invoking the unsubstantiated idea that the presence of transgender women creates a threat of sexual violence to cisgender women, and (b) making direct reference to the physical appearance of Lia Thomas’s genitalia.”
Towards the end of their letter, the professors state their supposed commitment to free speech, no matter how disagreeable that speech may be to them. Yet, they are against the university inviting “speakers to campus whose demonstrated aim is to demean, devalue, and threaten the lives of our friends, family, and community members.” 

They conclude the letter with the following statements in affirmation of the “transgender community:”
“We believe that our role as a college community must include speaking out against such dehumanization. To the queer, trans, and nonbinary members of our community: you have allies on this campus who value and support you. We are committed to fighting alongside you. To President Altmann and the F&amp;M administration: we call on you to make a strong, unequivocal statement of care and support on behalf of all of our LGBTQ+ students, colleagues, and community members.” 
Please send information on Elspeth M. Wilson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - April 10, 2024

Joshua Rottman

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<a href="https://www.wdmcs.org//site/default.aspx?PageType=2&amp;PageModuleInstanceID=6637&amp;ViewID=d23c305b-e295-4186-9257-b05a61f233d9&amp;RenderLoc=0&amp;FlexDataID=0&amp;Filter=StaffFullName%3Alange" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Petra Lange</a> is a Language Arts Teacher at <a href="https://www.wdmcs.org/valley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Valley High School</a> in Des Moines, Iowa. She additionally teaches as an Adjunct Professor of Education at <a href="https://simpson.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Simpson College</a> in Indianola, Iowa. Dr. Lange <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blm-propose-day-of-civil-disobedience-to-teach-critical-race-theory-in-iowa-despite-state-ban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made national headlines for bragging about circumventing Iowa State Law in order to teach her high school students Critical Race Theory</a>.
As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes in Breitbart News</a>, “Critical Race Theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy”—to the point of some, including <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iowa-governor-bans-critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iowa has prohibited the teaching and promotion of Critical Race Theory in public schools and government agencies</a>. In June of 2021, upon signing the bill into law, Iowa governor Kim Reynolds described Critical Race Theory in a press release as focusing disproportionately on “labels and stereotypes”:
“Critical Race Theory is about labels and stereotypes, not education. It teaches kids that we should judge others based on race, gender or sexual identity, rather than the content of someone’s character”.
The Iowa bill—<a href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=89&amp;ba=hf802" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tilted House File 802</a>—prohibits the teaching of 10 “ specific defined concepts” listed below:
-That one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex. 
-That the United States of America and the state of Iowa are fundamentally or systematically racist or sexist. 
-That one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex.
&#8211; That the United States of America and the state of Iowa are fundamentally or systemically racist or sexist. 
-That an individual, solely because of the individual&#8217;s race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously. 
-That an individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of the individual&#8217;s race or sex. 
-That members of one race or sex cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect to race or sex. 
-That an individual&#8217;s moral character is necessarily determined by the individual&#8217;s race or sex. 
-That an individual, by virtue of the individual&#8217;s race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex. 
-That any individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of that individual&#8217;s race or sex. 
-That meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist or were created by a particular race to oppress another race.
Despite the law, Dr. Lange has continued to openly promote Critical Race Theory in her classrooms.
Dr. Lange’s comments were originally captured by the Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1439318566914994176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1439318566914994176%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fblm-propose-day-of-civil-disobedience-to-teach-critical-race-theory-in-iowa-despite-state-ban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mythinformed MKE</a> during the online forum “​​UnBan Anti-Racism Education In Iowa.” In the clip, Dr. Lange boasts about allegedly exploiting a loophole in the law.
In her remarks, Dr. Lange tells her students that despite the law, they may still ask questions regarding Critical Race Theory; if they were to ask if America is a systemically racist nation, she will then be able to answer in the affirmative.
The full tweet is embedded below.
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Iowa teacher proudly explains how she is circumventing the Critical Race Theory ban.
Instead of teaching CRT, she reviews the CRT concepts that are called out in the law, and encourages her kids to ask questions about the concepts.
This is her CRT ban workaround. <a href="https://t.co/U7fzmJqDw2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/U7fzmJqDw2</a>
— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1439318566914994176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Lange for comment but have not received a reply by publication.
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Students and Parents may contact <a href="https://www.wdmcs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Des Moines Community Schools</a> at (515) 633-500 or <a href="https://simpson.edu/about-simpson-college/contact-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Simpson College</a> at (515) 961-6251.
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Updated &#8211; September 28, 2021

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<a href="https://www.wdmcs.org//site/default.aspx?PageType=2&amp;PageModuleInstanceID=6637&amp;ViewID=d23c305b-e295-4186-9257-b05a61f233d9&amp;RenderLoc=0&amp;FlexDataID=0&amp;Filter=StaffFullName%3Alange" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Petra Lange</a> is a Language Arts Teacher at <a href="https://www.wdmcs.org/valley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Valley High School</a> in Des Moines, Iowa. She additionally teaches as an Adjunct Professor of Education at <a href="https://simpson.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Simpson College</a> in Indianola, Iowa. Dr. Lange <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blm-propose-day-of-civil-disobedience-to-teach-critical-race-theory-in-iowa-despite-state-ban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made national headlines for bragging about circumventing Iowa State Law in order to teach her high school students Critical Race Theory</a>.

As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes in Breitbart News</a>, “Critical Race Theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy”—to the point of some, including <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England.

<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iowa-governor-bans-critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iowa has prohibited the teaching and promotion of Critical Race Theory in public schools and government agencies</a>. In June of 2021, upon signing the bill into law, Iowa governor Kim Reynolds described Critical Race Theory in a press release as focusing disproportionately on “labels and stereotypes”:

“Critical Race Theory is about labels and stereotypes, not education. It teaches kids that we should judge others based on race, gender or sexual identity, rather than the content of someone’s character”.

The Iowa bill—<a href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=89&amp;ba=hf802" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tilted House File 802</a>—prohibits the teaching of 10 “ specific defined concepts” listed below:

-That one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex. 

-That the United States of America and the state of Iowa are fundamentally or systematically racist or sexist. 

-That one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex.

- That the United States of America and the state of Iowa are fundamentally or systemically racist or sexist. 

-That an individual, solely because of the individual's race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously. 

-That an individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of the individual's race or sex. 

-That members of one race or sex cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect to race or sex. 

-That an individual's moral character is necessarily determined by the individual's race or sex. 

-That an individual, by virtue of the individual's race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex. 

-That any individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of that individual's race or sex. 

-That meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist or were created by a particular race to oppress another race.

Despite the law, Dr. Lange has continued to openly promote Critical Race Theory in her classrooms.

Dr. Lange’s comments were originally captured by the Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1439318566914994176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1439318566914994176%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fblm-propose-day-of-civil-disobedience-to-teach-critical-race-theory-in-iowa-despite-state-ban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mythinformed MKE</a> during the online forum “​​UnBan Anti-Racism Education In Iowa.” In the clip, Dr. Lange boasts about allegedly exploiting a loophole in the law.

In her remarks, Dr. Lange tells her students that despite the law, they may still ask questions regarding Critical Race Theory; if they were to ask if America is a systemically racist nation, she will then be able to answer in the affirmative.

The full tweet is embedded below.
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Iowa teacher proudly explains how she is circumventing the Critical Race Theory ban.
Instead of teaching CRT, she reviews the CRT concepts that are called out in the law, and encourages her kids to ask questions about the concepts.

This is her CRT ban workaround. <a href="https://t.co/U7fzmJqDw2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/U7fzmJqDw2</a>

— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1439318566914994176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Lange for comment but have not received a reply by publication.

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Students and Parents may contact <a href="https://www.wdmcs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Des Moines Community Schools</a> at (515) 633-500 or <a href="https://simpson.edu/about-simpson-college/contact-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Simpson College</a> at (515) 961-6251.
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Petra Lange

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John B. King, Jr. is the Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY). His <a href="https://www.suny.edu/about/leadership/chancellor/#:~:text=King%2C%20Jr.-,John%20B.,education%20in%20the%20United%20States." target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile </a>states, “Before he was appointed Chancellor, King served as president of <a href="https://edtrust.org/">The Education Trust</a>, a national civil rights nonprofit which seeks to identify and close opportunity and achievement gaps for students from preschool through college.”
King was also the U.S. education secretary to President Barack Omaha from January 1, 2016 to January 20, 2017. In December 2022, King was featured in a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20772" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> article titled “Obama education secretary John King to serve as next SUNY chancellor.” 
The article said, “In 2014…when he served as New York education commissioner, the New York State United Teachers [NYSUT] approved a vote of no confidence in King and requested that the state Board of Regents fire him after he forced Common Core standards too rapidly and failed to listen to educators.” 
Campus Reform explained how NYSUT delegates found that “‘King’s rushed implementation of the Common Core standards…[put] emphasis on testing and data than teaching and learning, and King’s failure to listen to classroom teachers on professional issues had evaporated all confidence in the commissioner’s policies and ability to lead.’”
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The Inflation Reduction Act can help unlock the education sector’s ability to advance climate solutions and support healthy sustainable schools. Learn how in this new report: <a href="https://t.co/cRH3wM0v0T">https://t.co/cRH3wM0v0T</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisIsPlanetEd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thisisplaneted</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ESBInitiative?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ESBInitiative</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WorldResources?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WorldResources</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AIEnvironment?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AIEnvironment</a>
— Dr. John B. King, Jr. (@JohnBKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnBKing/status/1593965989791952896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a <a href="https://youtu.be/VS_Uy9xZ4iM">video announcing</a> his appointment, King stated,
“We believe that improving the quality of education is inextricably linked to improving our economy and ensuring opportunity for all people.”
He continued,
This is a moment of fantastic alignment between the governor, the SUNY Board of Trustees and the campus leadership — all of whom believe that SUNY can be the best public higher education system in the country…an engine of economic development for the state and an engine of economic mobility&#8230;”
According to Campus Reform, King’s salary will be $750,000, as well as a $1000/mo vehicle allowance and a $12,500/mo New York housing stipend. 
In May 2021, King also announced his first political campaign for Maryland governor. He is one of 20 Democrats who bid for the position. King’s <a href="https://johnkingforgovernor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> is flagged as a potential security risk by Google and other browser search engines.
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Published January 10, 2023

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John B. King, Jr. is the Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY). His <a href="https://www.suny.edu/about/leadership/chancellor/#:~:text=King%2C%20Jr.-,John%20B.,education%20in%20the%20United%20States." target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile </a>states, “Before he was appointed Chancellor, King served as president of <a href="https://edtrust.org/">The Education Trust</a>, a national civil rights nonprofit which seeks to identify and close opportunity and achievement gaps for students from preschool through college.”

King was also the U.S. education secretary to President Barack Omaha from January 1, 2016 to January 20, 2017. In December 2022, King was featured in a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20772" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> article titled “Obama education secretary John King to serve as next SUNY chancellor.” 

The article said, “In 2014…when he served as New York education commissioner, the New York State United Teachers [NYSUT] approved a vote of no confidence in King and requested that the state Board of Regents fire him after he forced Common Core standards too rapidly and failed to listen to educators.” 

Campus Reform explained how NYSUT delegates found that “‘King’s rushed implementation of the Common Core standards…[put] emphasis on testing and data than teaching and learning, and King’s failure to listen to classroom teachers on professional issues had evaporated all confidence in the commissioner’s policies and ability to lead.’”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
The Inflation Reduction Act can help unlock the education sector’s ability to advance climate solutions and support healthy sustainable schools. Learn how in this new report: <a href="https://t.co/cRH3wM0v0T">https://t.co/cRH3wM0v0T</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisIsPlanetEd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thisisplaneted</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ESBInitiative?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ESBInitiative</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WorldResources?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WorldResources</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AIEnvironment?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AIEnvironment</a>
— Dr. John B. King, Jr. (@JohnBKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnBKing/status/1593965989791952896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a <a href="https://youtu.be/VS_Uy9xZ4iM">video announcing</a> his appointment, King stated,

“We believe that improving the quality of education is inextricably linked to improving our economy and ensuring opportunity for all people.”

He continued,

This is a moment of fantastic alignment between the governor, the SUNY Board of Trustees and the campus leadership — all of whom believe that SUNY can be the best public higher education system in the country…an engine of economic development for the state and an engine of economic mobility...”

According to Campus Reform, King’s salary will be $750,000, as well as a $1000/mo vehicle allowance and a $12,500/mo New York housing stipend. 

In May 2021, King also announced his first political campaign for Maryland governor. He is one of 20 Democrats who bid for the position. King’s <a href="https://johnkingforgovernor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> is flagged as a potential security risk by Google and other browser search engines.

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Published January 10, 2023

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John B. King, Jr.

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<a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/midddata/caitlin-myers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caitlin Myers</a> is the John G. McCullough Professor of Economics at Middlebury College. According to her profile, she teaches statistics, regression analysis, and causal inference.
<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/unplanned-parenthood-professors-research-maps-out-post-roe-abortion-travel-destinations/23676" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> featured Myers in an article titled “‘Unplanned Parenthood’ professor’s research maps out post-Roe abortion travel destinations.” The following map was included to show Myers’ cartography results.
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According to Campus Reform, “[Myers] created the ‘Myers Abortion Facility Database,’ which displays how legal changes to abortion access affect the abortion rate, birth rate, and changes the number of available abortion centers.”
The source said Myers’ project, which launched in 2021, included data from clinics that performed abortions from 2009 through 2023.
Myers is also outspoken about her support for abortion on social media:
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Just because abortions are up nationally doesn’t mean that people aren’t also trapped. Great coverage from <a href="https://twitter.com/TheUpshotNYT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@theupshotNYT</a> of new work w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/danieldench1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@danieldench1</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/MayraPinedaT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MayraPinedaT</a> providing the first estimates of the Dobbs&#8217; effects on births. Here’s the evidence….1/11<a href="https://t.co/g0Fju2uSVX">https://t.co/g0Fju2uSVX</a>
— Caitlin Knowles Myers (@Caitlin_K_Myers) <a href="https://twitter.com/Caitlin_K_Myers/status/1727329764015313297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Proud to be part of this groundbreaking issue of the <a href="https://twitter.com/AEACSWEP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEACSWEP</a> newsletter on the changing landscape of abortion access. Took a brief trip through 5 decades of newsletter archives, and I&#8217;m pretty sure this is a first. Thanks <a href="https://twitter.com/YanaRodgers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YanaRodgers</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/anusha_chari?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@anusha_chari</a>!<a href="https://t.co/GjhhmNVfrv">https://t.co/GjhhmNVfrv</a> <a href="https://t.co/4gRy6BqOgP">pic.twitter.com/4gRy6BqOgP</a>
— Caitlin Knowles Myers (@Caitlin_K_Myers) <a href="https://twitter.com/Caitlin_K_Myers/status/1705171416935481845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2023/10/professor-of-economics-caitlin-myers-maps-abortion-access-across-the-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Middlebury Campus</a> newspaper published an article praising Myers for her work on the abortion map. The source wrote, “When Myers is not teaching regression analysis or statistics … she engages with these issues in real-world contexts, gaining extensive experience as an expert witness and consultant for Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights … Myers’ abortion access dashboard has given her a platform to publish data that visually illustrates the causal effects of limiting access to reproductive care in the United States.”
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Please send tips and information on Caitlin Myers to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published &#8211; February 22, 2024

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<a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/william-nash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Nash</a> is a Professor of American Studies and English at Middlebury College in Vermont. Nash’s faculty biography states that his current research “focuses on historical and contemporary representations of abolitionism and enslavement.” 

His university profile contains a list of courses and descriptions include but are not limited to:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Black Freedom Struggles—This course explores racial tensions of the present moment and situates them in the historical context of the ongoing struggles of black freedom. Topics discussed may include black reparations, abolitionism, mass incarceration, the Black Lives Matter movement and the Civil Rights Movement.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Livin’ for the City—In this course, we will engage the idea of the ‘ghetto’ as constructed through literature, film, music and television…consider its impact on urban African American space…”</li>
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Nash is <a href="https://antiracism.middcreate.net/people/anti-racist-taskforce/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed</a> as a member of <a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/announcements/news/2022/05/working-become-anti-racist-institution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Middlebury’s Anti-Racist Taskforce.</a> The taskforce <a href="https://midd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1b712b2d-9166-4e7d-9d5a-ad57013956f0&amp;start=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduction video</a> describes racism as “an explicit and highly sophisticated piece of technology.”

In August 2023, Nash <a href="https://www.wfae.org/arts-culture/2023-08-30/with-goodbye-mary-molly-tuttle-extends-country-musics-lineage-of-reproductive-rights-songs-to-the-post-roe-era" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an opinion editorial</a> titled, “With ‘Goodbye Mary,’ Molly Tuttle extends country music’s lineage of reproductive rights songs to the post-Roe era.” Nash writes:
“Jason Aldean’s song ‘Try That in a Small Town’ extols small towns as bastions of conservative values standing up against a litany of violent big-city bogeyman…As an American Studies professor who teaches courses on country music, I am interested in the genre’s competing ‘liberal’ lineage.”
He continued:
“Perhaps the most striking of the new ‘abortion songs’ comes from acoustic guitar wizard Molly Tuttle…With ‘Goodbye Mary’...Tuttle creates an intimate portrait of a woman’s struggle for bodily autonomy that captures the potential terrors of a post-Roe America.”
The <a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/william-nash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">description</a> of Nash’s “Cultural Work Country Music” course says, “Arguably, aversion to American country music often tracks with class- and race-based assumptions about makers and consumers of this genre…”

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Published - September 11, 2023

<a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/tara-affolter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tara Affolter</a> is an Associate Professor of Education Studies and the Faculty Director of Equity, Justice &amp; Inclusion at Middlebury College. According to her university profile, Affolter “has over 15 years of experience teaching high school English and theatre while working for racial and social justice within the public schools…” She also serves in Middlebury’s Academic Affairs, “Black Studies,” and Education Studies departments.

In the Fall of 2022, she taught a course titled “Teaching the 1619 Project” with the following description:
“In this course, we will explore various ways to approach teaching The 1619 Project and examine how the project pushes against miseducation within the U.S. education systems. We will also delve into various states’ bans against teaching the 1619 Project and scrutinize how CRT became wrapped in these bans.”
Affolter is the author of several books including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Through-Fog-Urban-Education-Studies-ebook/dp/B07QSC9VX6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=BU03JAVU00JF&amp;keywords=through+the+fog%3A+towards+inclusive+anti-racist+teaching&amp;qid=1698171833&amp;sprefix=through+the+fog+towards+inclusive+anti-racist+teaching%2Caps%2C112&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B07QSC9VX6&amp;revisionId=cd77f78c&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Through the Fog: Towards Inclusive Anti-Racist Teaching</a>,” where she discussed topics such as “The Story of Race and the Creation of the White World,” “White Privilege” and “White Teachers.”  In the introduction, she writes:
“This book rests on the premise that as a nation, the United States is far from post-racial. Critical race theorists put this best in arguing that racism is endemic in the United States and shapes all of our institutions…
“The disproportionate emphasis on communities of color, the rhetoric of deficit that frames these communities as lacking and parents as not caring, the often-dysfunctional relationship between white educations and students of color, all help to illustrate the ways in which race continues to disrupt meaningful education for all students.” 

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Affolter was featured in <a href="https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2022/11/freedom-dreaming-imagines-an-anti-racist-middlebury-community" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Middlebury Campus</a> after the production of her stage play “Freedom Dreaming: Envisioning an Antiracist Middlebury.” The Middldlebury said, “Onstage, seven actors dressed in their everyday outfits as they read and acted out lines sewn together from interviews conducted with predominantly BIPOC [black, indigenous, people of color] students on campus.”

Affolter also partnered with Middlebury’s Student Government Association to lead a <a href="https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2023/01/panel-discusses-implications-of-supreme-court-decision-on-affirmative-action-for-college-community" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research panel</a> to answer the question, “What would ending affirmative action mean for Middlebury.” Affolter is quoted saying that “student body diversity promotes cross-racial understanding and reduces prejudice, overall leading to more positive interethnic attitudes by the end of college.”

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Published - October 31, 2023

<a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/james-sanchez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Sanchez</a> is an Assistant Professor of Writing &amp; Rhetoric at Middlebury College. His research interests include “cultural and racial rhetorics, public memory and writing assessment.”

Sanchez teaches a course titled “Documentaries, Social Justice” and another course titled “Race, Rhetoric, and Protest.” The latter is described as a “study [of] the theoretical and rhetorical underpinnings of racial protest in America…from bus boycotts to Black Power protests…”

In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Earth-Rhetoric-Preservation-Supremacy/dp/0814142230/ref=sr_1_1?crid=38TGSU3TSKABS&amp;keywords=Salt+of+the+Earth%3A+Rhetoric%2C+Preservation%2C+and+White+Supremacy&amp;qid=1699042342&amp;sprefix=salt+of+the+earth+rhetoric%2C+preservation%2C+and+white+supremacy%2Caps%2C106&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B0BGZF2GNB&amp;revisionId=7f11d136&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his book</a> “Salt of the Earth: Rhetoric, Preservation, and White Supremacy,” Sanchez discussed past life experiences while growing up in Grand Saline, Texas. He writes in the introduction:
“The ‘purity in Grand Saline is within the race of its people, or rather, the whiteness of the town. I define the term whiteness here as ‘a socially constructed category that is normalized within a system of privilege so that it is taken for granted by those who benefit from it…’”
Later in the book he states:
“The town preserves its white culture not out of necessity for life but out of fear of a white cultural death, an unfounded fear that has existed within white communities for centuries.”
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Sanchez is also a member of Middlebury’s “<a href="https://antiracism.middcreate.net/about-the-website/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Racism Taskforce</a>.” In a Middlebury article titled <a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/announcements/news/2022/05/working-become-anti-racist-institution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Working to Become an Anti-Racist Institution</a>, it is stated that the group was “created to develop a process to transform our community into one that is attentive to racism, addresses its destructive force, and creates the conditions to have courageous conversations.”

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Please send information on James Sanchez to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 6, 2023

<a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/midddata/caitlin-myers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caitlin Myers</a> is the John G. McCullough Professor of Economics at Middlebury College. According to her profile, she teaches statistics, regression analysis, and causal inference.

<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/unplanned-parenthood-professors-research-maps-out-post-roe-abortion-travel-destinations/23676" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> featured Myers in an article titled “‘Unplanned Parenthood’ professor’s research maps out post-Roe abortion travel destinations.” The following map was included to show Myers’ cartography results.

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According to Campus Reform, “[Myers] created the ‘Myers Abortion Facility Database,’ which displays how legal changes to abortion access affect the abortion rate, birth rate, and changes the number of available abortion centers.”

The source said Myers’ project, which launched in 2021, included data from clinics that performed abortions from 2009 through 2023.

Myers is also outspoken about her support for abortion on social media:
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Just because abortions are up nationally doesn’t mean that people aren’t also trapped. Great coverage from <a href="https://twitter.com/TheUpshotNYT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@theupshotNYT</a> of new work w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/danieldench1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@danieldench1</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/MayraPinedaT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MayraPinedaT</a> providing the first estimates of the Dobbs' effects on births. Here’s the evidence….1/11<a href="https://t.co/g0Fju2uSVX">https://t.co/g0Fju2uSVX</a>
— Caitlin Knowles Myers (@Caitlin_K_Myers) <a href="https://twitter.com/Caitlin_K_Myers/status/1727329764015313297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Proud to be part of this groundbreaking issue of the <a href="https://twitter.com/AEACSWEP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEACSWEP</a> newsletter on the changing landscape of abortion access. Took a brief trip through 5 decades of newsletter archives, and I'm pretty sure this is a first. Thanks <a href="https://twitter.com/YanaRodgers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YanaRodgers</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/anusha_chari?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@anusha_chari</a>!<a href="https://t.co/GjhhmNVfrv">https://t.co/GjhhmNVfrv</a> <a href="https://t.co/4gRy6BqOgP">pic.twitter.com/4gRy6BqOgP</a>
— Caitlin Knowles Myers (@Caitlin_K_Myers) <a href="https://twitter.com/Caitlin_K_Myers/status/1705171416935481845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2023/10/professor-of-economics-caitlin-myers-maps-abortion-access-across-the-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Middlebury Campus</a> newspaper published an article praising Myers for her work on the abortion map. The source wrote, “When Myers is not teaching regression analysis or statistics … she engages with these issues in real-world contexts, gaining extensive experience as an expert witness and consultant for Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights … Myers’ abortion access dashboard has given her a platform to publish data that visually illustrates the causal effects of limiting access to reproductive care in the United States.”

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Please send tips and information on Caitlin Myers to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/search?query=Kriner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matthew Kriner</a> is Managing Director of the Accelerationism Research Consortium (ARC), as well as the Director of Strategy, Partnerships and Intelligence at Middlebury’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC). (Note: as of publication, Kriner's faculty profile has been deleted).

In light of a gesture made by Elon Musk during the 47th Presidential Inauguration, Kriner wrote an <a href="https://theconversation.com/musks-inauguration-salute-is-not-the-only-apparent-fascist-signal-from-trumps-administration-248517">article</a> alleging a long-time connection between Nazism and conservatives in American politics. The title of the article is “Musk’s inauguration salute is not the only apparent fascist signal from Trump’s administration.”

Kriner wrote: 

“As a <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=e8ecZu8AAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scholar of far-right extremism</a>, I regularly review instances of coded fascist symbols and other right-wing messages being sent by public figures and their supporters, some more obvious than others.”

Kriner claimed the stage at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference was shaped in the fashion of an odal rune, which he describes as “an ancient pagan symbol coopted by Germany’s Nazi regime and worn prominently during World War II on the uniforms of the brutal <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/waffen-ss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Waffen SS</a> units.”

In 2021, MyPillow Founder Mike Lindell discounted a pillow from $49.88 to $14.88, which, according to Kriner, is allegedly “aligned with the 14-word white supremacist slogan and the numerical reference ‘88’ that white supremacists use to mean ‘Heil Hitler’ because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.”

At the article’s conclusion, Kriner claims these alleged coincidences of “fascism” and fascist symbolism with the American right-wing have a direct connection to Nazi Germany: 

“But as the old saying goes, ‘where there’s smoke there’s fire’ – and in this case the smoke is probably closer to a book-burning bonfire in Berlin than a tiki torch carried in Charlottesville.”

In a 2023 <a href="https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DoevMiddleburyComplaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a>, Kriner, among other defendants ( several of whom worked with Middlebury College), was accused of labor trafficking and not compensating an independent contractor in the same field of research (terrorism studies) as Kriner. The plaintiff, called Jane Doe in the lawsuit, sued the defendants on 11 counts.  

The plaintiff was initially asked to help Kriner with research in accelerationism:

“Defendant Matthew Kriner introduced himself to Doe on social media. He described himself as a private sector analyst who worked on similar topics. He was interested to learn more about accelerationism because  of her singular expertise on the subject matter…Kriner also  increasingly needed non-public information into her proprietary research to pitch the threat to high-level government officials. Kriner told Doe it ‘would be good to get more granularity from you on it all if you can.’”

In several research articles written by Kriner and defendants, Doe was not given credit or pay for her contributions and involvement in their scholarly work. Yet, she was continually asked for research assistance on following projects, which led to the same outcome for her. Over time, this treatment from the defendants allegedly led to the dilapidation of the plaintiff’s mental health. 

Toward the end of the complaint, the following claim is made: 

“Doe will never be able to return to the workplace or attain a doctorate as she intended due to the severe psychological injuries and enduring trauma caused by the Defendants.”

The case was <a href="http://portal-dc.tylertech.cloud/app/RegisterOfActions/#/A9FD50059C1B644BC03C64C2FF6F0570B090735330CC39DCD734F240CC06C74B23EE8F70682458011D8D106B0687D14A17F9A84303016DAFE983B2CC10EFA67BE210A368F7474E9F156C97AB7474C6EB/anon/portalembed">closed</a> several times despite the plaintiff’s repeated attempts to reopen it. The latest attempt was made in May of 2024, which was denied by Judge Todd E. Edelman.
Published - February 4, 2025

Abortion

Caitlin Myers

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<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/center/caaas/nathan-alexander-moore" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nathan Alexander Moore</a> is an Assistant Professor of Black Trans and Queer Studies in the Department of Women &amp; Gender Studies at CU Boulder. A biological male, Moore identifies as a female and uses “she/they” pronouns when referring to himself. 
According to his university profile, Moore is an “interdisciplinary scholar who is interested in critical and creative methods to explore the nuances of Blackness, queerness, and temporality. [His] research and writing interests include Black transfemininity, Black speculative arts practices, Black temporalities, and Black visual art and literature.” He also describes himself as a “Black transfemme writer, scholar, and educator.”
In April, Moore published a fictional book titled “<a href="https://www.hajarpress.com/books/the-rupture-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Rupture Files</a>,” which centers around black queer characters. The book’s publisher, Hajar Press, describes it as follows: 
“Across multiple worlds in upheaval, a curious cast of Black queer characters must choose between what they already know themselves to be and what they might yet become in the cataclysm. […]At once tender and audacious, Nathan Alexander Moore’s debut collection tells the stories of extraordinary creatures making impossible but human decisions. Traversing apocalypses both big and small, these captivating tales vibrate with the tensions between loss and growth; self and community; precarity and possibility.”
In 2023, Moore co-wrote an <a href="https://www.academia.edu/118016610/A_Tranifesto_for_the_Dolls_Toward_a_Trans_Femme_of_Color_Theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “A Tranifesto for the Dolls: Toward a Trans Femme of Color Theory.” The article is a dialogue between “trans women and femme scholars of color” who discuss “what a trans femme of color theory might look like.” These academics ponder a theory “that positions trans femmes of color not only as objects of study but also as producers of knowledge and subjects central to the ﬁeld of trans studies.”
During Moore’s portion of dialogue, the professor criticizes “black normative gender performance” and argues that masculinity is allegedly the mode by which blacks have thought through their emancipation during history. 
“Black normative gender performance is one way that Black beings have attempted to lessen the violence that began with the transatlantic slave trade. What I ﬁnd most interesting is that gender, and more particularly maleness or masculinity, have been the key to thinking through one’s emancipation.”
Addressing masculinity further, Moore states: 
“If maleness and masculinity have meant one vector through which attempts at freedom have been actualized, then perhaps it is productive that we think about how femaleness, femininity, and speciﬁcally Black transfemininity is a space that ruptures these attempts, that unsettles the linear progression from enslaved fungible ﬂesh to Black normatively gendered citizen.”
For Moore, “Black transfemininity” — alluded to towards the end of the above paragraph — is the way to “rupture” black gender normativity (for instance, the supposed masculine image that represents the fight for freedom, according to Moore).
“Black transfemininity both moves with the weight of history, while at the same time pointing us toward those uncharted territories for more livable futures. In this way, Black transfemmes might be conceived as walking ruptures of temporality and the supposedly stable geographies of normative gender. I want to propose Black transfemininity as a space of rupturing, an opening up and a pulling apart of the social fabric, a rending of our discursive lexicons, and the productive unsettling of our imaginaries.”
Please send information on Nathan Alexander Moore to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Dr. <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/jennifer-ho">Jennifer Ho</a> is a Professor of Asian American Studies and Director of the Center for Humanities &amp; the Arts at the University of Colorado-Boulder. According to her university <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/jennifer-ho">biography</a>, Professor Ho’s research interests include cultural studies, intersectionality, critical race studies, anti-racist theory, and critical mixed race studies.

Critical Theory, or Critical Race Theory, is an intellectual branch of Marxism that alleges American society and all of its founding institutions are infected with white supremacy. Furthermore, proponents of Critical Race Theory believe that people should take proactive steps to dismantle these institutions in the name of equity, which is also referred to as being “anti-racist.” Some Critical Race Theorists, such as Nikole Hannah-Jones, also <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/">claim</a> that America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England.

In an <a href="https://theconversation.com/white-supremacy-is-the-root-of-all-race-related-violence-in-the-us-157566">article</a> for The Conversation, titled, “White Supremacy is the Root of all race-related violence in the US,” Professor Ho alleges that all hate crimes committed in the United States are the result of white supremacy. The article is her response to the March 16th, 2021 <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-dead-shooting-georgia-massage-parlor-suspect-loose-n1261262">mass shooting</a> of massage parlors in Atlanta, George, that killed eight people, six of them being Asian-Americans.

Professor Ho attributes not just the March 2021 Atlanta shootings to white supremacy, but she actually attributes all hate crimes to white supremacy, regardless of whether or not they were committed by a white person. In the same <a href="https://theconversation.com/white-supremacy-is-the-root-of-all-race-related-violence-in-the-us-157566">article</a>, Professor Ho lists a series of anti-Asian hate crimes perpetrated by black men before stating that white supremacy is the cause for all of them.

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Professor Ho further <a href="https://theconversation.com/white-supremacy-is-the-root-of-all-race-related-violence-in-the-us-157566">describes</a> white supremacy as an ideology “ingrained” into American institutions and the driving force behind the dehumanizing of Asian-Americans as well Black Americans.

The University of Colorado-Boulder features Professor Ho’s work on the College of Arts and Science’s website, in a <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2020/04/08/anti-asian-racism-and-covid-19">web page</a> titled, “Anti-Asian Racism and Covid-19”. In addition to claiming that “millions” of unarmed black men have been killed by police, Professor Ho also alleges that it is also racist to state that COVID-19 originated in China.

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Professor Ho also co-<a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/antiracism-1#instructors">teaches</a> a class on anti-racism, titled, “Anti-Racism l”. According to the description of the course, participants will learn the following from Professor Ho:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">How to critically discuss “Whiteness.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Recognize that all white people possess white privilege.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">How the history of racism in the United States has created racial hierarchies that still exist.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The true foundations of the United States are that of “settler colonialism."</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">How white supremacy benefits white people.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Why the phrases, “All Lives Matter” and “Blue Lives Matter” are racist.</li>
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For more information on Critical Race Theory, readers may view TPUSA Founder and CEO Charlie Kirk’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36js0wIiulM&amp;ab_channel=CharlieKirkCharlieKirkVerified">explanation</a> of the field below.

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The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Professor Ho for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Parents may contact the College of Arts and Sciences at the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/">University of Colorado-Boulder</a> at 303-492-7294.
Updated - May 2021

<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/reiland-rabaka" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Reiland Rabaka</a> is a Professor of Africana Studies as well as Critical Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Ethnic Studies</a> at the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Colorado at Boulder</a>. He also serves as <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/humanities/reiland-rabaka" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Humanities</a> in the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/artsandsciences/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Arts and Sciences</a>.

Dr. Rabaka identifies publicly as a “democratic socialist” and a scholar of fields such as “black radical politics,” decolonial theory, and critical race theory. His lectures depict the United States as an inherently white-supremacist nation and herald the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement as a necessary counter to systematic racism.

In a video sponsored by the university, Dr. Rabaka describes American society as having <a href="https://www.coursera.org/lecture/antiracism-2/dr-reiland-rabaka-interventions-in-racist-terminologies-qp12a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">culminated in the “social, economic, spiritual, and cultural” death of black people</a>. He attributes this to our nation's alleged addiction to “black death.”

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He repeated this accusation during a lecture for Florida Gulf Coast University’s <a href="https://www.fgcu.edu/ccres/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Critical Race and Ethnic Studies</a>. During the event—hosted by professor and the Center Director, <a href="https://www.fgcu.edu/directory/tthornhill">Dr. Ted Thornill</a>—Dr. Rabaka <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsS6RAfiesI&amp;ab_channel=FGCUUniversityMarketingCommunications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">characterizes the nation as a “colonial project” that was built on racial and economic enslavement</a>.

To learn more about Dr. Thornhill, readers can view his <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/tedthornhill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist</a>.

Dr. Rabaka addresses BLM at length during the Q&amp;A section, characterizing the movement as a response to the nation’s “deeply entrenched racism.” At one point, a member of the audience asks Dr. Rabaka how he would respond if BLM was characterized as a terrorist organization; Rather than answer the question, he proceeds to deflect and counter that Christopher Columbus should be considered a terrorist for committing a “holocaust” against Native Americans. He denounces both the Founding Fathers and Pilgrims in his tirade, accusing each of participating in “racial terrorism.”

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Continuing, he urges “white administrators” to invest in BLM-themed curriculums and workshops in order to raise consciousness about the movement. Dr. Rabaka <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2021/03/02/black-lives-matter-course-aims-foster-campus-transformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personally teaches a BLM-themed course at UC-Boulder</a>.

BLM was <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/six-years-strong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">founded following the death</a> of Treyvon Martin and the acquittal of George Zimmerman for his murder. Although purporting to be a civil-rights organization, the movement has been tied to violent confrontations and riots across the country.

According to a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study conducted by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)</a>, BLM can be linked to 95% of the riots around the country–notably in Summer 2020 following the death of George Floyd. In an analysis of the study, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Federalist</a> found, “of the 633 incidents coded as riots, 88 percent are recorded as involving Black Lives Matter Activists.” The resulting riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>

Throughout his lecture, Dr. Rabaka praises Angela Davis and Assata Shakur, whose work he considers instrumental to the BLM movement. Shakur is a former <a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/black-lives-matter-praising-terrorist-assata-shakur/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">member of the Black Liberation Army and convicted cop killer</a>. She currently resides in Cuba as a guest of the communist government; authorities have offered 2 million dollars for her capture.

Angela Davis is a former vice-presidential candidate for the Communist Party and early member of the Black Panther Party. Davis is notoriously known for <a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/hollywoods-undying-love-communist-angela-davis-arnold-ahlert/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her role in the Marin County Civic Center Attack, which left 4 dead</a>.

To learn more about Angela Davis, users can view her <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/angeladavis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist</a>.

Another individual Dr. Rabaka praises in his lecture is scholar W.E.B Du Bois. A prominent author at the turn of the 20th century, Du Bois was a life-long adherent to communism, going <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/biographies/1953/03/16.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">so far as to eulogize Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin after his death in 1953</a>.

In a separate lecture at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Reiland+Rabaka+" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Rabaka lauds Du Bois specifically for his contributions to socialism</a>. At one point, the professor displays pictures of Du Bois meeting with Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Zedong, hailing both as proof of Du Bois international standing.

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<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mao-Zedong">Mao</a>—who chaired the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 until his death in 1976—is widely considered one of the deadliest heads of state in history–<a href="https://www.heritage.org/asia/commentary/the-legacy-mao-zedong-mass-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an estimated 65 million Chinese perished from his regime</a>. Mao's deadliest campaign—referred to as the “Great Leap Forward”—<a href="https://www.hudson.org/research/7342-mao-s-great-leap-forward-and-the-power-of-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caused an estimated 40 million to die from starvation and overwork in labor camps</a>.

All three lectures are listed at the bottom of the profile in full.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Rabaka for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Updated - October 13, 2021

<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/wgst/soares" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Kristie Soares</a> is an Assistant Professor of Women &amp; Gender Studies, and Co-Director of the LGBTQ Studies Certificate Program at the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Colorado Boulder</a>. 

On her <a href="https://www.kristiesoares.com/bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, she states that her <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfnX4ygH_Uc&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teaching</a> focuses on queer and performance methodologies. “I encourage students to ‘try out’ intellectual concepts using their bodies, through decolonial pedagogies such as Spoken Word Poetry and Theatre of the Oppressed.”

Additionally, her <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/kristie-soares/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">current book project</a>, “Salsa Epistemology, engages with salsa — a music and dance tradition — to show how embodied playfulness figures as an integral part of queer activism in the Spanish Caribbean diaspora.”
Some of her featured publications include:

<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/wgst/sites/default/files/attached-files/cuban_missile_crisis.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cuban Missile Crisis of White Masculinity: Tito Bonito and the Burlesque Butt.</a>” The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Pop Culture in Latin America. Routledge (2017) 
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">“but his sexuality and gender performance are queered by where he keeps his Cubanness—on his butt. He lifts the flag so that the audience can applaud his bare butt cheeks, which he gyrates enticingly before bending down to pick up just two props for his stage exit—his bright blue raft and the tiny American flag which he waves with a comic enthusiasm as he backs off of the stage, indicating the fragility of both U.S.-based and Cuban masculinities.”</li>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Reflections on Anti-Racist Feminist Pedagogy &amp; Organizing: This Bridge, 40 Years Later.” Forthcoming in a special issue of Feminist Studies. (2021)</li>
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Published — October 3, 2022

<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/center/caaas/nathan-alexander-moore" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nathan Alexander Moore</a> is an Assistant Professor of Black Trans and Queer Studies in the Department of Women &amp; Gender Studies at CU Boulder. A biological male, Moore identifies as a female and uses “she/they” pronouns when referring to himself. 

According to his university profile, Moore is an “interdisciplinary scholar who is interested in critical and creative methods to explore the nuances of Blackness, queerness, and temporality. [His] research and writing interests include Black transfemininity, Black speculative arts practices, Black temporalities, and Black visual art and literature.” He also describes himself as a “Black transfemme writer, scholar, and educator.”

In April, Moore published a fictional book titled “<a href="https://www.hajarpress.com/books/the-rupture-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Rupture Files</a>,” which centers around black queer characters. The book’s publisher, Hajar Press, describes it as follows: 
“Across multiple worlds in upheaval, a curious cast of Black queer characters must choose between what they already know themselves to be and what they might yet become in the cataclysm. […]At once tender and audacious, Nathan Alexander Moore’s debut collection tells the stories of extraordinary creatures making impossible but human decisions. Traversing apocalypses both big and small, these captivating tales vibrate with the tensions between loss and growth; self and community; precarity and possibility.”
In 2023, Moore co-wrote an <a href="https://www.academia.edu/118016610/A_Tranifesto_for_the_Dolls_Toward_a_Trans_Femme_of_Color_Theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “A Tranifesto for the Dolls: Toward a Trans Femme of Color Theory.” The article is a dialogue between “trans women and femme scholars of color” who discuss “what a trans femme of color theory might look like.” These academics ponder a theory “that positions trans femmes of color not only as objects of study but also as producers of knowledge and subjects central to the ﬁeld of trans studies.”

During Moore’s portion of dialogue, the professor criticizes “black normative gender performance” and argues that masculinity is allegedly the mode by which blacks have thought through their emancipation during history. 
“Black normative gender performance is one way that Black beings have attempted to lessen the violence that began with the transatlantic slave trade. What I ﬁnd most interesting is that gender, and more particularly maleness or masculinity, have been the key to thinking through one’s emancipation.”
Addressing masculinity further, Moore states: 
“If maleness and masculinity have meant one vector through which attempts at freedom have been actualized, then perhaps it is productive that we think about how femaleness, femininity, and speciﬁcally Black transfemininity is a space that ruptures these attempts, that unsettles the linear progression from enslaved fungible ﬂesh to Black normatively gendered citizen.”
For Moore, “Black transfemininity” — alluded to towards the end of the above paragraph — is the way to “rupture” black gender normativity (for instance, the supposed masculine image that represents the fight for freedom, according to Moore).
“Black transfemininity both moves with the weight of history, while at the same time pointing us toward those uncharted territories for more livable futures. In this way, Black transfemmes might be conceived as walking ruptures of temporality and the supposedly stable geographies of normative gender. I want to propose Black transfemininity as a space of rupturing, an opening up and a pulling apart of the social fabric, a rending of our discursive lexicons, and the productive unsettling of our imaginaries.”
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Published - July 9, 2024

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Jodi Linley

<a href="https://education.uiowa.edu/person/jodi-linley">Professor Jodi Linley,</a> University of Iowa, detailed her extensive commitment to teaching classes that “deconstruct whiteness” in an academic journal article, arguing that to do otherwise would make her “complicit” in perpetuating white supremacy and white privilege.

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University of Iowa

<a href="https://clas.uiowa.edu/anthropology/people/ellen-lewin">Dr. Ellen Lewin</a> is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. Dr. Lewin recently came under fire for her passionate response to a campus-wide email sent by the College Republicans. The email was an advertisement for “Conservative Coming Out Week!” Lewin, in a fit of rage, replied, “F@#$ YOU, REPUBLICANS.” Not only was she outraged that Republicans were active on campus, but she also did not approve of their event names nor the use of the phrase “coming out.”

<a href="https://education.uiowa.edu/person/jodi-linley">Professor Jodi Linley,</a> University of Iowa, detailed her extensive commitment to teaching classes that “deconstruct whiteness” in an academic journal article, arguing that to do otherwise would make her “complicit” in perpetuating white supremacy and white privilege.