{"id":415,"date":"2016-12-07T06:05:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T06:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=415"},"modified":"2016-12-07T06:05:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T06:05:03","slug":"reclaiming-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/12\/07\/reclaiming-watch-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming the Watch List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some professors were troubled by Professor Watchlist when it debuted last month, viewing it as a serious threat to academic freedom. Yet others saw the site &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2016\/11\/22\/new-website-seeks-register-professors-accused-liberal-bias-and-anti-american-values\" target=\"_blank\">which names and monitors professors<\/a> \u201cwho discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom\u201d (the \u201cpromoting anti-American values\u201d criterion has since been removed) &#8212; as more annoying than dangerous. Some submitted complaints about Indiana Jones, Professor Plum or other fictional academics, for example. Others joked they wished they&#8217;d been named, saying they\u2019d wear it as a badge of honor.<\/p>\n<p>But now Professor Watchlist has met its match in a new blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/professorwatchlist.blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watchlist Redux<\/a>, where being named is intended as a badge of honor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis site is dedicated to showcasing and championing courageous thinkers and teachers &#8212; and at the same time saying \u2018shame, shame, shame\u2019 to those who would insinuate that these people are dangerous,\u201d reads Redux. \u201cThose of us who decided to start this site have taken &#8212; sometimes taught &#8212; courses in logic. We know bad logic when we see it, such as this: Radical equals bad equals dangerous. But [Professor Watchlist] won\u2019t tell you what they mean by \u2018radical.\u2019 They trade in innuendo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2016\/12\/06\/professor-watchlist-receives-challenge-new-blog-watch-list-redux-where-being-named\">Read the entire post here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some professors were troubled by Professor Watchlist when it debuted last month, viewing it as a serious threat to academic freedom. Yet others saw the site &#8212; which names and monitors professors \u201cwho discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom\u201d (the \u201cpromoting anti-American values\u201d criterion has since been removed) &#8212; as&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/12\/07\/reclaiming-watch-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}