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<a href="https://www.mtso.edu/about-mtso/faculty-directory/valerie-bridgeman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Valerie Bridgeman</a> serves as the Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Homiletics and Hebrew Bible at <a href="https://www.mtso.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Methodist Theological School in Ohio</a>. She also currently serves as an <a href="https://mtso.academia.edu/ValerieBridgeman/CurriculumVitae" target="_blank" rel="noopener">associate minister</a> at St. Paul Baptist Church in Philadelphia. According to her university <a href="https://www.mtso.edu/about-mtso/faculty-directory/valerie-bridgeman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biography</a>, Bridgeman teaches a number of courses on ministry and preaching, including Introduction to Homiletics, Preaching and Interpreting Wisdom Traditions, Women in the Biblical World, and Autobiographies for Teaching.
According to their <a href="https://www.mtso.edu/about-mtso/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, the Methodist Theological School of Ohio is an official seminary of the United Methodist Church and prepares students from 20 different denominations for careers in ministry.
In addition to her professorial role at Methodist Theological School of Ohio, Bridgeman currently serves as the CEO of <a href="https://www.womanpreach.org/our-team" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WomanPreach! Inc</a>. The organization trains women and pastors, and works to develop programming for “people of all genders.” During an interview on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUkboNr4XUA&amp;ab_channel=KineticsLive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kinetics Live</a>, Bridgeman explains the organization’s goal of training men and women to perform ministry work from a womanist and feminist point of view
Bridgeman has repeatedly attacked white people across multiple internet platforms. In an op-ed titled <a href="https://churchanew.org/blog/posts/valerie-bridgeman-may-you-be-brave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May You Be Brave</a>, Bridgeman states that she doesn’t feel safe around white people.
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Bridgeman’s personal <a href="https://twitter.com/DrValerieB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> is littered with racial attacks against white people. In one tweet specifically, she alleges that white people “rarely do the right thing”.
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Some days I just wonder how white people, in general, live with their &#8220;American&#8221; history and evil? And why they are able, in general, to sleep well at night. <a href="https://t.co/YCx5px8Mma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/YCx5px8Mma</a>
— Valerie Bridgeman (@DrValerieB) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrValerieB/status/1219748226477281280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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THIS. I am not depending on white people to &#8220;do the right thing.&#8221; As a group, they rarely do. If you feel &#8220;offended,&#8221; ask yourself why the truth hurts you so much? <a href="https://t.co/oo8v4XqDPM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/oo8v4XqDPM</a>
— Valerie Bridgeman (@DrValerieB) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrValerieB/status/1301160940168081408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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While on the <a href="https://eshpodcast.libsyn.com/the-case-of-blm-with-reverend-valerie-bridgeman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Empowerment Starts Here</a> podcast, Bridgeman praised the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. At one point, she stated that Christians don’t believe the Gospel if they cannot bring themselves to say, “Black Lives Matter.”
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In the same podcast, Bridgeman further <a href="https://eshpodcast.libsyn.com/the-case-of-blm-with-reverend-valerie-bridgeman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that Christians who do not believe that Jesus was a “Black Woman” also do not believe in the Gospel.
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Also in the Empowerment Starts Here podcast, Bridgeman stated that she does not care if white people come to love black people. She states that from a “Christian proposition,” white people as a whole need to change their hearts and be redeemed.
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Bridgeman dives deeper into her “womanist” perspectives in her book, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu_mDAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA482&amp;lpg=PA482&amp;dq=womanist+approaches+to+the+prophets+-+valerie+bridgeman&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=FER1LKVrLV&amp;sig=ACfU3U3B-rpnr_yB7-zEOwRBCaNAVbD7aA&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwim58-KvIDwAhUbOs0KHcqaC3EQ6AEwBnoECBAQAw#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oxford Handbook of the Prophets</a>–specifically in a chapter titled <a href="https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859559.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199859559-e-27" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Womanist Approaches to the Prophets</a>. She describes a “womanist” as someone who reads the Bible through the experiences of poor black women or women of color. She claims that this allows readers to view the Bible through critical gender and race theories.
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As Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>, Critical Race Theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism falsely claiming that America and all of its institutions are infected with white supremacy.
The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Bridgeman for comment but did not receive a reply by the time of publication.
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Parents and students may contact <a href="https://www.mtso.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Methodist Theological School of Ohio</a> at 740-363-1146
Updated &#8211; Spring, 2021

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<a href="https://www.mtso.edu/about-mtso/faculty-directory/valerie-bridgeman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Valerie Bridgeman</a> serves as the Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Homiletics and Hebrew Bible at <a href="https://www.mtso.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Methodist Theological School in Ohio</a>. She also currently serves as an <a href="https://mtso.academia.edu/ValerieBridgeman/CurriculumVitae" target="_blank" rel="noopener">associate minister</a> at St. Paul Baptist Church in Philadelphia. According to her university <a href="https://www.mtso.edu/about-mtso/faculty-directory/valerie-bridgeman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biography</a>, Bridgeman teaches a number of courses on ministry and preaching, including Introduction to Homiletics, Preaching and Interpreting Wisdom Traditions, Women in the Biblical World, and Autobiographies for Teaching.

According to their <a href="https://www.mtso.edu/about-mtso/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, the Methodist Theological School of Ohio is an official seminary of the United Methodist Church and prepares students from 20 different denominations for careers in ministry.

In addition to her professorial role at Methodist Theological School of Ohio, Bridgeman currently serves as the CEO of <a href="https://www.womanpreach.org/our-team" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WomanPreach! Inc</a>. The organization trains women and pastors, and works to develop programming for “people of all genders.” During an interview on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUkboNr4XUA&amp;ab_channel=KineticsLive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kinetics Live</a>, Bridgeman explains the organization’s goal of training men and women to perform ministry work from a womanist and feminist point of view

Bridgeman has repeatedly attacked white people across multiple internet platforms. In an op-ed titled <a href="https://churchanew.org/blog/posts/valerie-bridgeman-may-you-be-brave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May You Be Brave</a>, Bridgeman states that she doesn’t feel safe around white people.

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Bridgeman’s personal <a href="https://twitter.com/DrValerieB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> is littered with racial attacks against white people. In one tweet specifically, she alleges that white people “rarely do the right thing”.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Some days I just wonder how white people, in general, live with their "American" history and evil? And why they are able, in general, to sleep well at night. <a href="https://t.co/YCx5px8Mma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/YCx5px8Mma</a>
— Valerie Bridgeman (@DrValerieB) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrValerieB/status/1219748226477281280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
THIS. I am not depending on white people to "do the right thing." As a group, they rarely do. If you feel "offended," ask yourself why the truth hurts you so much? <a href="https://t.co/oo8v4XqDPM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/oo8v4XqDPM</a>
— Valerie Bridgeman (@DrValerieB) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrValerieB/status/1301160940168081408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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While on the <a href="https://eshpodcast.libsyn.com/the-case-of-blm-with-reverend-valerie-bridgeman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Empowerment Starts Here</a> podcast, Bridgeman praised the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. At one point, she stated that Christians don’t believe the Gospel if they cannot bring themselves to say, “Black Lives Matter.”

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In the same podcast, Bridgeman further <a href="https://eshpodcast.libsyn.com/the-case-of-blm-with-reverend-valerie-bridgeman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that Christians who do not believe that Jesus was a “Black Woman” also do not believe in the Gospel.

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Also in the Empowerment Starts Here podcast, Bridgeman stated that she does not care if white people come to love black people. She states that from a “Christian proposition,” white people as a whole need to change their hearts and be redeemed.

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Bridgeman dives deeper into her “womanist” perspectives in her book, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu_mDAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA482&amp;lpg=PA482&amp;dq=womanist+approaches+to+the+prophets+-+valerie+bridgeman&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=FER1LKVrLV&amp;sig=ACfU3U3B-rpnr_yB7-zEOwRBCaNAVbD7aA&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwim58-KvIDwAhUbOs0KHcqaC3EQ6AEwBnoECBAQAw#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oxford Handbook of the Prophets</a>–specifically in a chapter titled <a href="https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859559.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199859559-e-27" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Womanist Approaches to the Prophets</a>. She describes a “womanist” as someone who reads the Bible through the experiences of poor black women or women of color. She claims that this allows readers to view the Bible through critical gender and race theories.

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<img class="size-full wp-image-1347 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Screen-Shot-2021-05-07-at-4.32.12-PM.png" alt="" width="726" height="501" />

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As Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>, Critical Race Theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism falsely claiming that America and all of its institutions are infected with white supremacy.

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Bridgeman for comment but did not receive a reply by the time of publication.

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Parents and students may contact <a href="https://www.mtso.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Methodist Theological School of Ohio</a> at 740-363-1146
Updated - Spring, 2021

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Feminism

Racial Ideology

Anti-Judeo-Christian Values

Socialism

Valerie Bridgeman

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<a href="https://www.unca.edu/person/blu-buchanan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blu Buchanan</a> is a University Fellow at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. He further serves as a fellow for the <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about/fellows/buchanan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS)</a>. According to his biography, Buchanan studies whiteness, masculinity, feminist theory, and how “Black, trans folks develop to resist and decenter violence.” 
A progressive activist, Buchanan advocates for curtailing free speech rights and states that white people pose a direct, physical threat to him. He describes the First Amendment as a concept constructed and enforced for the sole benefit of white people in an article titled “<a href="https://medium.com/@BlaQSociologist/free-but-not-to-kill-me-33b6c64a050b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Free, But Not To Kill Me</a>.” He writes the subjugation of “black bodies” was needed to bolster the free speech of white men:
“Black bodies and communities were enslaved to support the speech and interests of white capitalists.”
Buchanan declares free speech is not a “universal, constant idea,” and he cannot support a person’s free speech to “silence the oppressed.” In a nation composed of cis-white men, he continues, this will inevitably mean that freedom of expression will always benefit society’s most powerful groups and interests.
Buchanan further states “white supremacy, anti-blackness, and transphobia” are normalized in a culture that embraces freedom of expression. He claims this puts “trans folks” like himself at risk for physical assault and even death, and justifies denying “white supremacists and fascists” access to public platforms.  
In a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NxPKUy9cXggZOX8yR72DecS2aV1bIB_TxJPeQR4q1n8/edit#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender “toolkit”</a> that Buchanan co-authored, he again claims that speech from white men threatens trans people. The forward for the document condemns academics who cite the First Amendment in refusing to use a transgender person’s preferred pronouns, writing that it falls beyond the scope of “reasoned debate.”
In his essay titled, “A Burning White Ga(y)ze on “Free Speech” and White Gay Men, Buchanan again characterizes free speech as a manifestation of white supremacy and masculinity. He alleges white men cite the First Amendment as a “dog whistle,” and it comes at expense of the health and safety of marginalized communities. 
In a separate article for <a href="https://medium.com/@BlaQSociologist/black-and-bitter-in-the-time-of-trump-b8867bcb5191" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Medium.com</a>, Buchanan vows to hold white people accountable for their actions. He promised not to “hold back on y’all white folks” and warns that white people will “catch these proverbial hands.” 
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The Professor Watchlist team has reached out to Buchanan for comment prior to publication. This article will be updated accordingly. 
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Published &#8211; December 28, 2022
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University of North Carolina - Asheville

<a href="https://titleix.unca.edu/">Jill Moffitt</a>, an Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Title IX Administrator at the University of North Carolina - Asheville, stopped a sexual predator from explicitly admitting that he enjoys going into the women’s restroom and taking photos so she wouldn’t have to report it or take responsibility. She told him to treat it as simply a fetish.

<a href="https://www.unca.edu/person/blu-buchanan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blu Buchanan</a> is a University Fellow at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. He further serves as a fellow for the <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about/fellows/buchanan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS)</a>. According to his biography, Buchanan studies whiteness, masculinity, feminist theory, and how “Black, trans folks develop to resist and decenter violence.” 

A progressive activist, Buchanan advocates for curtailing free speech rights and states that white people pose a direct, physical threat to him. He describes the First Amendment as a concept constructed and enforced for the sole benefit of white people in an article titled “<a href="https://medium.com/@BlaQSociologist/free-but-not-to-kill-me-33b6c64a050b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Free, But Not To Kill Me</a>.” He writes the subjugation of “black bodies” was needed to bolster the free speech of white men:

“Black bodies and communities were enslaved to support the speech and interests of white capitalists.”

Buchanan declares free speech is not a “universal, constant idea,” and he cannot support a person’s free speech to “silence the oppressed.” In a nation composed of cis-white men, he continues, this will inevitably mean that freedom of expression will always benefit society’s most powerful groups and interests.

Buchanan further states “white supremacy, anti-blackness, and transphobia” are normalized in a culture that embraces freedom of expression. He claims this puts “trans folks” like himself at risk for physical assault and even death, and justifies denying “white supremacists and fascists” access to public platforms.  

In a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NxPKUy9cXggZOX8yR72DecS2aV1bIB_TxJPeQR4q1n8/edit#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender “toolkit”</a> that Buchanan co-authored, he again claims that speech from white men threatens trans people. The forward for the document condemns academics who cite the First Amendment in refusing to use a transgender person’s preferred pronouns, writing that it falls beyond the scope of “reasoned debate.”

In his essay titled, “A Burning White Ga(y)ze on “Free Speech” and White Gay Men, Buchanan again characterizes free speech as a manifestation of white supremacy and masculinity. He alleges white men cite the First Amendment as a “dog whistle,” and it comes at expense of the health and safety of marginalized communities. 

In a separate article for <a href="https://medium.com/@BlaQSociologist/black-and-bitter-in-the-time-of-trump-b8867bcb5191" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Medium.com</a>, Buchanan vows to hold white people accountable for their actions. He promised not to “hold back on y’all white folks” and warns that white people will “catch these proverbial hands.” 

<img class="size-large wp-image-2747 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Copy-of-Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-3-e1672268395562-1024x302.png" alt="" width="640" height="189" />

The Professor Watchlist team has reached out to Buchanan for comment prior to publication. This article will be updated accordingly. 

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Published - December 28, 2022
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Anti-1st Amendment

Violence

Blu Buchanan

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<a href="https://uh.edu/nsm/math/people/Instructional%20Faculty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Andrew Chang</a> is listed as a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Houston. In October 2023, Chang was <a href="https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/university-of-houston-professor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-sources-say/285-81cfcacc-67b7-4f49-91a1-bf58b52730f7">arrested and charged</a> with five counts of possessing child pornography. 
<a href="https://www.fox26houston.com/news/university-of-houston-lecturer-faces-child-pornography-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox 26 Houston reported</a>, “According to court documents Chung possessed digital images of young girls and boys under 18 engaging in sexual acts.”
Fox 26 also published a brief statement from the university:
“The University of Houston is aware of the charges filed against James Chang and his employment…has been suspended. Any further questions should be directed to the Houston Police Department or Harris County District Attorney’s Office.”
<a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2023/10/12/466446/university-of-houston-lecturer-arrested-charged-with-possession-of-child-pornography/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Houston Public Media said</a>, “Chang was in possession of videos of children between eight and 13 engaging in sexual conduct…a judge set his bond at $500,000 [and Chang] cannot reside or go within 1,000 feet of areas where children gather.”
The Professor Watchlist team will monitor the developments of this case. Please send any information regarding James Chang to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://www.uh.edu/class/ccs/people/nicholas-de-genova/">Dr. Nicholas De Genova</a> is a professor and the Chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. His university biography describes him as a scholar of migration, borders, citizenship, labor, critical race, postcolonial, and ethnic studies. Dr. De Genova is an ardent advocate for abolishing national borders and has called for the death of American soldiers.

In an interview for the <a href="https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/linnaeus-university-centre-for-concurrences-in-colonial-and-postcolonial-studies/">Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies</a>, Dr. De Genova <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkF0I1Z9eGo">describes his work in postcolonial studies</a> as taking the free movement of people across borders as a “natural element of the human condition." At one point in the interview, Dr. De Genova implies that national borders should be abolished.

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Continuing, Dr. De Genova states that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkF0I1Z9eGo">national borders are the most violent divisions that humanity has constructed</a>.

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Throughout his work, Dr. De Genova claims that borders are used to elicit racial strife. In a piece written for the Journal of the American Anthropological Association, Dr. De Genova alleges there are <a href="http://www.americananthropologist.org/2020/03/23/everything-is-permitted-trump-white-supremacy-fascism/">parallels between Trump’s policies on the US-Mexico border and a “brutal and bellicose racial nativism” of conservative support for restrictive immigration policies. </a>

In the same paper, Dr. De Genova describes conservatives as fascists who are fomenting a racial civil war against people of color and illegal immigrants through the enforcement of immigration laws. He states:

“We must interrogate the synergies between, on the one hand, the variety of ways that Trump’s supporters are induced to endorse or emulate this brutal and bellicose racial nativism and, on the other hand, the outright cruelty and sadism, of the Trump administration’s border-enforcement tactics and the racist violence that they have institutionalized.” 

Dr. De Genova describes the United States as a nation that embodies white nationalism. Quoting author Wahneema Lubiano, Dr. De Genova states that <a href="http://www.americananthropologist.org/2020/03/23/everything-is-permitted-trump-white-supremacy-fascism/">American history has always “been some form” of white nationalism</a>.

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<a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/2003/03/31/letters-editorprofessor-qualifies-quotation-article-and-addresses-criticism/">In an open letter published by The Columbia Spectator,</a> Dr. De Genova described the United States as an emblem of white nationalism. Alleging the formation of the United States constituted racism and imperialism, Dr. De Genova called on Americans to “repudiate all forms of patriotism.”

The letter is a response to the public outcry to his teach-in at Columbia University, where Dr. De Genova called for “<a href="https://nypost.com/2003/03/31/prof-pilloried-columbia-community-condemns-words-of-hate/">a million Mogadishus” to be inflicted against American troops in Iraq</a>.

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The professor is referring to the Black Hawk Down incident that occurred in Somalia during the <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/etc/cron.html">Battle of Mogadishu in 1993</a>,  where 18 American soldiers were killed and over 70 were wounded. Pictures later emerged of <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/legacy-black-hawk-down-180971000/">the bodies of the servicemen being dragged through the streets</a> by Somalian militia groups. The demoralizing aftermath is considered to have contributed to the decision of then-President Bill Clinton to withdraw America’s humanitarian mission from the country.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. De Genova serves as the chair of the Special Committee on Race and Social Justice at the University of Houston. <a href="https://uh.edu/class/about-us/race-and-social-justice-committee/">According to the university’s official website</a>, the committee organizes events to educate students about topics such as the “racial formation of modern capitalism, mass incarceration, racism in academia, and the “racial underpinnings for contemporary immigration policy and border policing.” according to the University’s official site.

The Professor Watchlist Team has reached Dr. De Genova for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Parents and Students may contact the <a href="https://uh.edu/class/about-us/contact-us/">College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences</a> at the University of Houston at (713)-743-4002.
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<a href="https://uh.edu/hilton-college/Contact-Us/Faculty-Directory/Juan-M.-Madera/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Juan M. Madera</a> is a Curtis L. Carson Endowed Professor of Global Hospitality Leadership at the University of Houston. His research interests include Diversity and Discrimination in the Workplace, Employment Interview and Selection Issues, Training and Development, and Research Methodology. 

<a href="https://issuu.com/uhhiltoncollege/docs/madera_curriculum_vitae" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Madera has multiple publications; including,</a>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Managing group identity in the workplace: The influence of manifestation and suppression on perceived discrimination, job satisfaction, and turnover intentions.” (Cultural Diversity &amp; Ethnic Minority Psychology, 18(2), 165-170)</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Strategies for diversity training: Focusing on empathy in the workplace.” (Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, 35(4), 469-487)</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Diversity training: Examining minority employees’ organizational attitudes.” (Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 3(4), 365-376) </li>
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According to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20506" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, Madera and a few other educators published an article, titled: “<a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/promotion-rejected-your-record-may-not-be-the-problem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Promotion Rejected? Your Record May Not Be the Problem</a>.” The article was published by the <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/promotion-rejected-your-record-may-not-be-the-problem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chronicle of Higher Education</a>, also known as “The Chronicle.” Madera and his co-authors elaborate on a study of fairness and bias in tenure and promotion which “suggests that some candidates are spurned for reasons beyond their control.” The study, “<a href="https://uh.edu/class/psychology/promotionandtenurestudy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fairness and Bias in Promotion and Tenure</a>,” is being conducted through the University of Houston with multiple educators and faculty members, including Madera. The website’s mission statement is to “Determine structural barriers around promotion and tenure limiting the advancement of minority faculty and ultimately the inclusion of all demographic groups in Science.”

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The authors of this article argue, “People of color, especially women of color, are the most unlikely to receive promotions or get onboarded… [A]s a woman of color in an otherwise all-white or primarily white department, and particularly in a department that is also male dominated, you may have been at a disadvantage at the outset in terms of fit…”

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<a href="https://uh.edu/nsm/math/people/Instructional%20Faculty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Andrew Chang</a> is listed as a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Houston. In October 2023, Chang was <a href="https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/university-of-houston-professor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-sources-say/285-81cfcacc-67b7-4f49-91a1-bf58b52730f7">arrested and charged</a> with five counts of possessing child pornography. 

<a href="https://www.fox26houston.com/news/university-of-houston-lecturer-faces-child-pornography-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox 26 Houston reported</a>, “According to court documents Chung possessed digital images of young girls and boys under 18 engaging in sexual acts.”

Fox 26 also published a brief statement from the university:
“The University of Houston is aware of the charges filed against James Chang and his employment…has been suspended. Any further questions should be directed to the Houston Police Department or Harris County District Attorney’s Office.”
<a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2023/10/12/466446/university-of-houston-lecturer-arrested-charged-with-possession-of-child-pornography/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Houston Public Media said</a>, “Chang was in possession of videos of children between eight and 13 engaging in sexual conduct…a judge set his bond at $500,000 [and Chang] cannot reside or go within 1,000 feet of areas where children gather.”

The Professor Watchlist team will monitor the developments of this case. Please send any information regarding James Chang to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Sexualization

James Andrew Chang

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Chenjerai Kumanyika

<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&#8217;t have to wait and &#8220;work with them&#8221; 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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Rutgers University

<a href="https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/kumar-deepa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deepa Kumar</a> is a Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. According to her faculty profile, Kumar is “internationally recognized as a leading scholar of race and anti-Muslim racism.” As the president of Rutgers <a href="https://rutgersaaup.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AAUP-AFT academic union</a>, she also “led the transition to an intersectional approach of <a href="https://www.tempestmag.org/2023/04/intersectional-organizing-wall-to-wall-at-rutgers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unionism</a>, centering on race and gender equity.”

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In April 2023, Kumar participated in an interview with <a href="https://tempestmag.org/2023/04/intersectional-organizing-wall-to-wall-at-rutgers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tempest Magazine</a>, in which she discussed the history of faculty strikes led by the AAUP-AFT academic union. Kumar believes adjunct professors are entitled to the same benefits as full-time and tenured faculty. 

The article states: “The Rutgers AAUP-AFT had worked over a period of years to build a ‘wall-to-wall,’ industrial-style, intersectional union … the union also made race and gender justice central to its organizing and negotiations as a way to bridge divides and to support a diverse student body.”

When asked, “Can you speak to the wall-to-wall organizing strategy and its lessons, methods, and challenges”, Kumar responded:
“The university is a very hierarchical space where status and stature are given to certain people and denied to others. The most senior professors are at the top of this hierarchy of academic workers, whereas adjunct faculty are largely invisible … Beyond this are of course the workers who clean our campuses, feed our students, do administrative work, deliver packages and do various other tasks.”
She further discussed how the state governor pressured the union to suspend the strike and the union’s vote to take a $70 framework to avoid an injunction, which would force adjunct faculty back to return to work.
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— Deepa Kumar (@ProfessorKumar) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar/status/1183758900006477825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Kumar also participated in a protest following the death of George Floyd.
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Hundreds protest at the Capitol in Madison, WI. <a href="https://t.co/36SOAl0Cgo">pic.twitter.com/36SOAl0Cgo</a>
— Deepa Kumar (@ProfessorKumar) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar/status/1266789917687984128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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She’s also an advocate for climate change legislation. 
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So many people that even tho the march has started we are not moving! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/climatemarch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#climatemarch</a> <a href="http://t.co/DzUqfBNY9Q">pic.twitter.com/DzUqfBNY9Q</a>
— Deepa Kumar (@ProfessorKumar) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar/status/513753945706356736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2014</a></blockquote>
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RACIAL IDEOLOGY; ANTI-LAW ENFORCEMENT; TERROR SUPPORTER

Kumar is the author of “<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/products/955-islamophobia-and-the-politics-of-empire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire</a>,” in which she discussed the supposed rise of anti-Muslim racism following the 9/11 <a href="https://www.911memorial.org/911-faqs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Trade Center</a> terrorist attacks. Her perspective of the US government’s response suggests that using surveillance and other methods of securing American civilians were acts of racial prejudice against Arabs and Muslims.

In the book introduction, Kumar wrote:
“Even before I began my study of the history of Islam, of Muslim-majority countries, and of the relationship between East and West, I knew instinctively that the Islamophobic rhetoric that passed as common sense in the United States was dead wrong … I am grateful to the dozens of Middle East studies scholars and others before me who have studied the ‘Muslim world’ for advancing my knowledge of this subject and helping me to expose the underlying racism inherent in the logic of Islamophobia.”
By the end of the novel, Kumar claimed, “We also saw that  the image of the menacing ‘Muslim threat’ [had] been mobilized largely by ruling elites to serve a political agenda, whether the domination of Europe by the papacy in the eleventh century or US expansionism today.”

Kumar once posted on Twitter that she believed the US government was more brutal than the ISIS terrorist regime. 
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Solidarity with <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ProfessorKumar</a>. Fox News is attacking her for this completely accurate tweet. <a href="https://t.co/SpUPusq5IP">https://t.co/SpUPusq5IP</a>
— Critical Reading (@CriticalReading) <a href="https://twitter.com/CriticalReading/status/625789261615382528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel, Kumar appeared on Democracy Now to refute media reports that terrorists violently raped Israeli women and children during the invasion.  She was <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/8/nyt_investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of 60+ signatories</a> who wrote to The New York Times demanding an investigation into sexual assault claims.

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Please send tips, updates and information on Deepa Kumar to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://jasbirkpuar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jasbir Puar</a> is the Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.

Puar is an editor and author of several publications including a book entitled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Right-Maim-Debility-Disability-Otherwise/dp/0822369184/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CJIPSGV1XZ1X&amp;keywords=Jasbir+Puar%2C+The+Right+to+Maim%3A+Debility%2C+Capacity%2C+Disability&amp;qid=1693330890&amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability</a>.” According to the publisher, the text  is “an interrogation of Israel’s policies toward Palestine, in which [Puar] outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury.” 

The publisher also wrote, “Supplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim, the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure and enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies.”

Rutgers congratulated Puar on the book, despite its racist and anti-semitic themes. In a <a href="https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/news-events/news/1216-congratulations-professor-jasbir-puar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the university awarded Puar with the National Women’s Studies Association 2018 Alison Piepmeier Book Prize for “The Right to Maim.” The publication says:

“Weaving disability studies together with queer theory, transgender studies, biopolitics and assemblage theory, Puar moves from the racialized constitution of transgender through the Israeli occupation of Palestine, focusing on what it means to manipulate bodies on the population level..”

Puar’s anti-semitic writing drew national attention after <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/satyellarson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princeton Professor Satyel Larson</a> featured “The Right to Maim” on a course reading list.

In response to Puar’s book, the<a href="https://www.jns.org/column/antisemitism/23/8/22/312418/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Jewish News Syndicate</a> said, “There are no statistics gathered by UNICEF, the World Health Organization, or even the virulently antisemitic Palestinian Authority to substantiate [Puar’s] claims, nor is there any medical evidence.”

The Syndicate also said, “Lamentably, Puar’s anti-semitic diatribe is just one of many examples of college-level faculty and administration espousing hate against Jewish students and the Jewish state.”

In her <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/terrorist-assemblages-tenth-anniversary-edition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> “Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times,” Puar “argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism and nationalism.” 

Puar <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-7150-2_601.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in the introduction</a>: 

“In Terrorist Assemblages, my primary interest is in the process of the management of queer life at the expense of sexually and racially perverse death in relation to the contemporary politics of securitization, Orientalism, terrorism, torture and the articulation of Muslim, Arab, Sigh and South Asian sexualities.”
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<a href="http://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/faculty/core-faculty/143-jasbir-puar">Dr. Jasbir Puar</a>, a professor at Rutgers University, was invited to speak at Vassar. Her lecture was titled “Inhumanist Biopolitics: How Palestine Matters.” In her lecture, she accuses Israel of “stunting” growth of Palestinian bodies through scientific experiment as well as harvesting their organs.

<a href="http://www.kevin-allred.com/">Kevin Allred</a> was an adjunct instructor at Rutgers University. He underwent a psych evaluation after a series of questionable and possibly threatening tweets relating to Trump and the Second Amendment. He also went to Twitter after the election to complain that Rutgers had not publicly ensured the safety of students after Trump won. He also teaches a class called "Politicizing Beyonce". He was <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/11/21/rutgers-places-adjunct-leave-tweets-he-says-were-based-rhetoric-president-elect">placed</a> on administrative leave from Rutgers 2016, and <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4750992/Former-Rutgers-professor-fired-tweeting-kill-Trump.html">fired from Montclair State</a> University after threatening to kill Trump.

<a href="https://rcws10.rutgers.edu/faculty/Chikindas/">Professor Michael Chikindas</a>, Rutgers University, posted frequent anti-Semitic comments, at one point referring to Jewish people as “international fat Jewish pockets.” “These jewish [sic] motherf*****s do not control me. They can go f**k each other in their fat a***s - you see, I really do not have anything to loose [sic], hence nothing to be controlled,” he wrote in response to an article titled “The Globalists: Who Control Us!”.

<a href="http://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/174-markowitz-norman">Dr. Norman Markowitz</a> is a Professor of History at Rutgers University. Dr. Markowitz is also an active member of the Communist Party USA since 1978.  He writes and teaches about communism using his “Marxist Perspective.” As a supporter of Obama, Markowitz said that it would be good if Obama’s policies were labeled socialist because it would bring socialism to the forefront and looked at more seriously as a viable option for Americans. He has been a longtime defender of the Communist spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and has said he has “enormous respect” for Howard Zinn, a Marxist historian.

<a href="http://www.polisci.rutgers.edu/cb-profile/userprofile/whfield">Dr. William Field</a>, a professor at Rutgers University, sent out an email to all political science majors and minors to protest against Condoleeza Rice serving as their commencement speaker. He was also said to have congratulated one of the lead organizers of the protest who had damaged university property.

<a href="https://law.rutgers.edu/directory/view/mbk69" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Margo Kaplan</a> is a Professor of Law at <a href="https://law.rutgers.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rutgers University Law School</a> in Camden, New Jersey. According to her university biography, she teaches courses on “Criminal Law, Health Law and Policy, and Sex Crimes” and explores the “legal limitations on intimate decisions.”

Dr. Kaplan has spent her academic career attempting to normalize pedophilia. In a paper for the <a href="https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlulr/vol72/iss1/4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington and Lee Law Review</a>, she advocates for the reclassification of pedophilia as a mental disorder so that pedophiles may be awarded more civil rights:

“...we should not categorically deny pedophilia the civil rights protections afforded to other mental disorders without a convincing normative justification supported by cogent scientific evidence. Strengthening civil rights protections for those with pedophilia also increases access to treatment and support that helps prevent child abuse.”

In a similar piece for the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/pedophilia-a-disorder-not-a-crime.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/pedophilia-a-disorder-not-a-crime.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Times</a>—titled, "Pedophilia: A Disorder, Not a Crime,"—Dr. Kaplan attempts a sickening effort to lure readers into sympathizing with pedophiles by characterizing pedophiles as adolescents with harmless, childhood crushes.

“THINK back to your first childhood crush. Maybe it was a classmate or a friend next door. Most likely, through school and into adulthood, your affections continued to focus on others in your approximate age group. But imagine if they did not. By some estimates, 1 percent of the male population continues, long after puberty, to find themselves attracted to prepubescent children. These people are living with pedophilia, a sexual attraction to prepubescents that often constitutes a mental illness. Unfortunately, our laws are failing them and, consequently, ignoring opportunities to prevent child abuse.”

Her intellectual sleight of hand is prevalent in both pieces. Kaplan blames the abuse of children partially on what she views as the severity in which society treats pedophilia, resulting in pedophiles abstaining from seeking treatment.

When later interviewed by <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/10/06/pedophilia-not-a-crime-rutgers-margo-kaplan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Philadelphia Magazine</a>, Dr. Kapland claimed to be “shocked” at the amount of support she had received, accusing critics she did have of not even reading her article.

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<a href="https://history.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/details/1143-bray-mark">Mark Bray</a> is a part-time lecturer in the Department of History at Rutgers University.

Bray first gained notoriety in 2017 when he <a href="https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/antifa/">authored</a> "The Anti-Fascist Handbook," and offered to <a href="https://campusreform.org/?id=14972">donate</a> half of the proceeds to ANTIFA.

Bray fully endorses ANTIFA’s embrace of violence as a tactic, and often describes it as “self-defense”. He has <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9616">stated</a> that in order to “preemptively” shut down far-right events and gatherings,  “physical violence against white supremacists is both ethically justifiable and strategically effective.”

Soon after publication, he appeared on NBC to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/antifa-violence-ethical-author-explains-why-n796106">defend</a> the use of force against opposing protestors. He claimed that as an illiberal organization, ANTIFA has and will continue to shut down the free speech of the far right.

Bray recently penned an op-ed in the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/01/trump-antifa-terrorist-organization/">Washington Post</a> in the midst of mass-rioting following the death of George Floyd. After expressing sympathy with the looters, Bray claims that police officers are, in fact, deadlier than ANTIFA.  He wrote, “...and in the United States, ANTIFA have never killed anyone, unlike their enemies in Klan hoods and squad cars.” 

After his views were <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/dartmouth-president-disavows-professor-justified-antifa-violence-self-defense">condemned</a> by Dartmouth University - his employer at the time - Bray soon began lecturing at Rutgers, where his university biography describes him as a “historian of human rights, terrorism, and politics in Modern Europe.”

<a href="https://asianlanguages.rutgers.edu/menu-i/69-richard-vanness-simmons">Richard VanNess Simmons</a> is a professor of Chinese and East Asian Studies and serves as the <a href="https://www.ciru.rutgers.edu/about-us/people-2">Director of the Confucius Institute</a> at Rutgers University. The Confucius Institute is funded by the Chinese Communist Party and serves as a focal point for the dissemination of propaganda and foreign espionage on American campuses.
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China is the greatest existential threat that the United States currently faces. Through military, governmental, and financial fronts, the authoritarian Chinese government seeks to supplant the United States as the world’s sole superpower. None of their tactics may be more perfidious than the placement of Confucius Institutes on campuses across the country. Currently, Confucius Institutes operate at American universities, high schools, and even elementary schools, serving as focal points of China’s espionage against our country. China has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to indoctrinate students with state-sponsored, communist propaganda, matched by university funds that are enabled by your hard-earned tax dollars.

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As <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nouraerakat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documented</a> in a previous Professor Watchlist profile, Rutgers University’s Africana Studies Professor <a href="https://crimjust.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-directory/details/61-faculty/30-faculty/620-erakat-noura" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noura Erakat</a> is a radical, antisemitic activist who frequently characterizes Israel as a racist state equivalent to the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/apartheid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apartheid-era</a> South African government. She’s also an avid supporter of Boycott, Divestment,  and Sanctions (BDS), <a href="https://bdsmovement.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an anti-Jewish movement</a> that claims to “[work] to end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.” 

On November 29, 2023, Erakat posted on X/Twitter that Elon Musk, President Donald Trump, and Reverend John Hagee are “all explicit antisemites who love Israel.” 
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Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Reverend John Hagee - all explicit antisemites who love Israel. Safety is in justice &amp; solidarity, not ethnic cleansing, colonization, &amp; apartheid. Fighting for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestinians?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestinians</a> means fighting for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/freedom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#freedom</a>, including for Jewish liberation. <a href="https://twitter.com/thereidout?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thereidout</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://t.co/3Mnr6ddaFl">pic.twitter.com/3Mnr6ddaFl</a>
— Noura Erakat (@4noura) <a href="https://twitter.com/4noura/status/1729899924257419330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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On November 4, Erakat addressed a crowd of more than 300,000 people during a pro-Palestinian protest in Washington, DC. Regarding Israel’s response to the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 Jewish people, Erakat declared:
“We’re all here to charge this administration with genocide…Together [Israel and the United States] are rendering international law worthless and irrelevant. Every single tribunal—from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Bosnia to Cambodia, every prosecution from the [International Criminal Court]—was meant to atone for our moral failures…”
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Ms. <a href="https://crimjust.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-directory/details/30-faculty/faculty/620-erakat-noura">Noura Erakat</a> is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University. According to her university profile, Professor Erakat specializes in fields that include international law, humanitarian law, human rights law, national security law, refugee law, and critical race theory. A harsh critic of the state of Israel, the professor has repeatedly demonized and called for the destruction of the only Jewish state in the world.

Professor Erakat’s work frequently characterizes Israel as a racist state that is equivalent to the apartheid-era South African government. In a November 2019 interview with DemocracyNow, she stated, ”<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/19/noura_erakat_israeli_settlements_trump_announcement">we are witnessing the entrenchment of an apartheid regime</a>, and the U.S. [is] at the helm of that process.”

Professor Erakat repeats this false claim to justify her support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. In a November 2020 video panel discussion with the Middle East Institute, Professor Erakat calls on the world <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S7ZkKMFUuU&amp;t=3956s">to resist and alienate Israel via adherence to a BDS platform</a>.

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BDS—short for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions—supporters embrace the following three tenets as a feature of the campaign:

- Boycotting all goods that originate from the state of Israel;

- Divesting all funds (private or public) that are allocated to Israel; and

- Placing sanctions exclusively on Israel.

Mr. Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the BDS movement, admits that the ultimate outcome of these steps is the <a href="https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1267561561565958144">dismantlement of the state of Israel</a>.
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WATCH: The video BDS doesn't want you to see!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BDS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BDS</a> co-founder Omar Barghouti admits that their goal means the end of Israel. <a href="https://t.co/wulUA5hqdE">pic.twitter.com/wulUA5hqdE</a>
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) <a href="https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1267561561565958144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Professor Erakat likewise calls for Israel to be destroyed and replaced by an Arab-majority Palestinian state. As reported by The Spectator in July 2019, Ms. Erakat spoke at an event in Washington, DC, where she <a href="https://spectator.org/noura-erakat-recounts-her-anxiety-over-israels-existence/">advocated for Arabs to “help indigenize” Jews in Israel </a>in order to achieve a sole Palestinian state or a “one-state solution.”

Professor Erakat is far more brazen in calling for the outright destruction of Israel when speaking at anti-Israel protests around the country. During one march in May 2021—captured by News2Share—she called for the <a href="https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1393739882825195521/">liberation of Palestine, “from the river to the sea.</a>”

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According to the Israeli newspaper Arutz Sheva, the chant, “from the river to the sea,” was <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291203">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. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1948/08/02/archives/aim-to-oust-jews-pledged-by-sheikh-head-of-moslem-brotherhood-says.html">The chant is thought to originate from the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan el-Banna</a>, who was qouted 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."

Even though Professor Erakat can be heard calling for the “denuclearization of Israel” in the same speech, she had in 2013 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I20HOx5zfv0&amp;ab_channel=JFhsfohhMN">condemned efforts to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program as “racist</a>.”

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She further <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CMzhsZtBfgg/?igshid=5p918cganhq1">defended this position</a> in a video uploaded to her Instagram in March of 2021, arguing there is no contradiction in opposing sanctions for Iran while supporting sanctions on Israel.

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During a separate march in May of 2021,  Ms. Erakat can be heard chanting “By spirit and by blood, we redeem you, Palestine!” in front of the Israeli Embassy.

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In April of 2020, Noura Erakat’s cousin, Mr. Ahmed Erakat, was killed after <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/06/29/palestinian-rams-a-checkpoint-death-lies-and-videotape/">ramming his car into an Israeli checkpoint during a failed terrorist attack</a>. Despite the publication of footage verifying the incident and a pipe bomb later being found in the van by investigators, Ms. Erakat continues to claim that he was murdered by Israeli forces.
Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://sas.rutgers.edu/">School of Arts and Sciences</a> at (848) 932-7896 or email the School at <a href="mailto:info@sas.rutgers.edu">info@sas.rutgers.edu</a>. 
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Dr. James Livingston is <a href="https://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/172-livingston-james" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a tenured Professor of History</a> at Rutgers University. His specialty is listed as Modern US: Intellectual and Economic History. He considers himself an “economic historian” and professionally writes many publications about politics, economics, and working in the United States.

In his personal time, Dr. Livingston often takes to Facebook to discuss similar topics, but in a less professional manner. <a href="https://pen.org/press-clip/white-professor-accused-of-antiwhite-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a Facebook post from May 31, 2018</a>, Dr. Livingston denounces the white race and belligerently asserts he “hates white people.” Later in the post, he calls white Americans “little caucasian assholes who know their parents will approve of anything they do” and “little shitheads.”

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When Facebook flagged the post and took it down, rather than apologize for his racist rant, he posted the following:

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Shortly after his anti-white tirade, Rutgers launched an investigation into his posts. The university stated that they received several anonymous complaints about the posts, calling them to take action against the Professor. Dr. Livingston claimed he was making a statement about gentrification and told university officials that white supremacists were sending him threatening messages.

The investigation was headed by Carolyn Dellatore, the associate director of the Office of Employment Equity. <a href="https://www.thefire.org/rutgers-investigation-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Her investigation found that</a> “given Professor Livingston’s insistence on making disparaging racial comments, a reasonable student may have concerns that he or she would be stigmatized in his classes because of his or her race. As such, Professor Livingston’s comments have violated university policy.” He argued, however, that his posts were not racist because white people cannot be discriminated against. He also argued that the first amendment gave him the right to freedom of speech.

The university initially decided to sanction Dr. Livingston, but they <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2018/11/15/no-punishment-rutgers-university-professor-over-white-people-comments-facebook/2016377002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ultimately reversed their decision</a> in November 2018, clearing him of all charges. Dr. Livingston is still teaching at Rutgers University today.

<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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<a href="https://sph.rutgers.edu/concentrations/urban-global-public-health/faculty-member.php?id=92133" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Perry Halkitis</a> is the Dean and Hunterdon Professor of Public Health and Health Equity in the School of Public Health at Rutgers University. He is designated as a Distinguished Professor with research interests in infectious diseases such as HIV, HPV, and COVID-19.

Halkitis is the founder and director of the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS). CHIBPS is not a medical clinic but is “an interdisciplinary research center within the Rutgers School of Public Health. <a href="https://sph.rutgers.edu/centers/chibps/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The center’s website</a> says the organization is “nationally recognized for the study of LGBTQ health with a focus on the disparities of infectious diseases including HIV, substance use, and mental health burden.”  

In March 2022, CHIBPS offered a survey and raffle for anyone willing to participate in their research into LGBTQ communities’ vaccination experiences.
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NY/NJ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LGBTQ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LGBTQ</a> friends: We have expanded our study about LGBTQ communities' vaccination experiences to include NY in addition to NJ!
The survey is brief and you can enter a raffle. For more info or to participate, click the link here: <a href="https://t.co/GwCgtsFdXo">https://t.co/GwCgtsFdXo</a>
Please share widely! <a href="https://t.co/Q0QGnZtqY4">pic.twitter.com/Q0QGnZtqY4</a>
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Halkitis put #EthicalDisruptor in his Twitter profile and uses his page to bring awareness to LGBTQ community issues. In a video pinned by Halkitis, a host of New Jersey Power and Politics interviewed him regarding the Colorado Springs <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/grotesque-politicization-colorado-springs-gay-bar-shooting-opinion-1761129" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gay night club shooting</a>.  

Halkitis was asked how he thought rhetoric from political figures enabled people like the shooter to commit hate crimes. Halkitis, who believes microaggressions are a public health issue, stated:

“We’ve been seeing over the course of the last four to five years a steady increase in hate crimes…[We need to] think about how our work in public health has to be responsible enough to call out that rhetoric — whether it be macro aggressions…or the microaggressions that marginalize people on a daily basis.”

Halkitis also said the fact that the club shooter identifies as “nonbinary” is not a factor because “LGBTQ people are raised in a society that also embeds us with trans-homophobia…and many of us internalize it.”
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<a href="https://twitter.com/DeanPNHalkitis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DeanPNHalkitis</a> discusses hate and its affect on public health <a href="https://t.co/X6pX90xkry">https://t.co/X6pX90xkry</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YouTube</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RutgersSPH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RutgersSPH</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RutgersBHS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RutgersBHS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TIPHtweets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TIPHtweets</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ASPPHtweets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ASPPHtweets</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ColoradoSpringsmassacre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ColoradoSpringsmassacre</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ColoradoGay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ColoradoGay</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/chibps?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chibps</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LGBTQPubPopHlth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LGBTQPubPopHlth</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NJGVRC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NJGVRC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RUDiversity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RUDiversity</a>
— Perry N Halkitis, PhD, MS, MPH ♓️🏳️‍🌈🇬🇷🇺🇸⚛️ (@DeanPNHalkitis) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeanPNHalkitis/status/1597264812488429569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In response to the passing of the Respect for Marriage Act, Halkitis said,

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<a href="https://ifh.rutgers.edu/faculty_staff/naa-oyo-a-kwate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Naa Oyo Kwate</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Ecology and in the Department of Africana Studies at Rutgers University. Her faculty profile says she has “wide-ranging interests in racial equity and African American health.” Her research interests include “ways in which urban built environments reflect racial inequities…and how racism, directly and indirectly, affects African American health.”

The University of Pennsylvania invited Kwate to give a talk on February 15, 2023. The <a href="https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/calendar/view/event/event_id/4222/view/event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> says Kwate “examines the ways in which fast food…has shifted from its position of jealously guarded whiteness and wholesome leisure to gauche, homogenized, anachronistic—and black.”

The abstract further states, “Fast food has undergone a complete inversion from its historical origins of serving urban white workers and middle-class white suburban families to become synonymous with urban black space.”

In her book, “<a href="https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/burgers-in-blackface" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Burgers in Blackface</a>,” Kwate discussed restaurant culture from the perspective of slavery and the ridicule of black people. She introduced the book by stating, “This book examines the ways in which American restaurants have traded on denigrating images of black people in names, branding, and architecture. The United States has a long history of black stereotypes being used to sell products, particularly packaged food…”

She concludes the book, “Because racism is the way American society does business, the establishments reviewed here may at first blush suggest simply another–if unique–example of how business is done…It is also possible that racist restaurants mobilize the culture, geography, and institutions of the South.”

Kwate announced on Twitter that her new book “White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation” will drop in May 2023.” 
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Y’all! My book is now available to preorder! White Burgers, Black Cash is dropping this May. <a href="https://t.co/NHXk3neV0l">https://t.co/NHXk3neV0l</a>
I’d love your support for this project long time in coming. With thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/bryantterry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bryantterry</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_CMGreer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Dr_CMGreer</a> for such lovely blurbs!
— Naa Oyo A. Kwate (@professahKwate) <a href="https://twitter.com/professahKwate/status/1585660507293421568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/white-burgers-black-cash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">table of contents </a>for “White Burgers, Black Cash” includes the chapter titles: A Fortress of Whiteness: First-Generation Fast Good in the Early Twentieth Century and Government Burgers: Federal Financing of Fast Food in the Ghetto.

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<a href="https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/faculty/core-faculty/572-cooper-brittney">Brittney Cooper</a> is an associate professor of Africana and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. 

Much of her research and writing centers around the intersections of race, feminism, and gender. Cooper’s work has led to her to develop a number of bizarre opinions:

- While Cooper claims that most American Christians worship a God of “white supremacy and patriarchy,” she chooses to <a href="https://www.salon.com/2015/04/01/the_rights_made_up_god_how_bigots_invented_a_white_supremacist_jesus/">worship a Jesus that was “queer”</a> and “married to a prostitute.” 

- White families <a href="https://www.salon.com/2014/01/07/white_supremacy_wins_again_melissa_harris_perry_and_the_racial_false_equivalence/">can’t properly raise black children</a>.

- Linear time is a product of a Euro-centric world, or in short, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/rutgers-professor-even-the-concept-of-time-is-racist/">our concept of time is racist.</a>

- A founding principle of our nation is that black people are inhuman, therefore <a href="https://www.salon.com/2015/04/29/black_americas_baltimore_schism_why_the_freddie_gray_tragedy_demands_serious_soul_searching/">riots are really just resistance </a>against an unjust system.   

- BREXIT was the result of <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7760">white nationalism.</a>

- Obesity in the black community is <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13866">caused by racism</a>.

Cooper has publicly attacked conservatives on multiple occasions, most recently during a live stream commentary on the DNC. Before launching into a tirade accusing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for “demolishing the civil rights movement,” Cooper explained <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15668">why American exceptionalism is a myth</a>; 
“I’m not here for the American Patriotism, American Exceptionalism Bulls***. All that stuff is propaganda, but as political theater it is amazing.” 
Cooper has attributed most of the deaths from the pandemic to racism and conservatives, stating that, “I feel like most Black people are clear that this utterly absurd push to re-open the country is all about a gross necropolitical calculation that it is Black people who are dying disproportionately from COVID,” and <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/rutgers-university-prof-reopening-the-country-is-about-killing-black-people/">blaming Trump supporters for the hundreds of thousands of deaths</a> due to the coronavirus.

Cooper has previously stated that a conservative’s beliefs are “rooted in racism.” In an appearance on MSNBC, <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/duncan-schroeder/2020/08/30/deranged-msnbc-pundit-goes-hateful-rant-against-trump-voters">Cooper stated that conservatives have a desire for power</a> at the expense of black and brown Americans. 

“...part of the challenge we have as a nation is that a significant swath of Americans still support Donald Trump. They support his vision of America. And that is rooted in racism. It is rooted in a desire for power at the expense of everyone who is black and brown…”

Cooper has denigrated conservatives and white people throughout her career. <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?444245-2/eloquent-rage&amp;playEvent">During a speech in Baltimore</a>, she stated that as white men lose their power, they will continue to “terrorize” black men and women. On a previous thread, she stated that the black community is being eaten alive by “capitalism, patriarchy, and racism,” and white people won’t feel any negative consequences of these systems so long as they can continue to displace white people through systems like gentrification. 

During an interview with The Root, Copper claimed that white people are committed to being “villians” and claimed, “We gotta take these MF’ers out.” 
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Rutgers professor: "White people are committed to being villains," "We gotta take these MF'ers out."
This professor spewed hatred on a YouTube video with <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRoot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheRoot</a>. <a href="https://t.co/QrGsv77CCC">pic.twitter.com/QrGsv77CCC</a>

— MRCTV (@mrctv) <a href="https://twitter.com/mrctv/status/1453141895291588610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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For more information, check out Charlie Kirk’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvLFFfKIE8c&amp;ab_channel=CharlieKirk">segment</a> on Brittney Cooper on The Charlie Kirk Show below.
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Updated - May 4, 2023

<a href="https://polisci.rutgers.edu/people/department-directory/details/1701-nikolalexander-floyd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikol Alexander-Floyd</a> is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. According to her faculty page, “she teaches a range of courses on black feminism theory, black women’s political activism, and race, gender, media and the law.”

<a href="https://dailytargum.com/article/2022/12/rutgers-experts-discuss-record-number-of-women-elected-to-u-s-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Targum</a> featured Alexander-Floyd’s comments on the number of women—and the lack of “women of color”—in Congress. Despite female politicians winning 149 seats in 2022, Alexander-Floyd declared that “progress is inequitable.” 

She also noted that “While women of color have more presence in the House of Representatives, there is not a single black woman senator." However, she failed to provide evidence or offer an explanation of whether black women traditionally seek such roles in politics. 

In a 2020 <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/29/step-away-fascism-and-toward-brighter-more-just-future-100-black-writers-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled, “A Step Away from Fascism and ‘Toward a Brighter More Just Future’: 100+ Black Writers and Scholars Endorse Bernie Sanders,” Alexander-Floyd was a signatory on the joint letter that said:

“After much research and reflection, we have concluded that while imperfect, as we all are, Bernie Sanders, the politics he advocates, the consistent track record he demonstrates, and the powerful policy changes he has outlined, if elected, would make the most far-reaching and positive impact in the lives and conditions of black people, and all people in the United States…While we are not all democratic socialists, we will not be red-baited to reject and vilify [his] views.”

Alexander-Floyd authored several books including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nationalism-Contemporary-Politics-Comparative-Feminist/dp/1403979669/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20VMCP0TY2PHX&amp;keywords=gender%2C+race%2C+and+nationalism+in+contemporary+black+politics&amp;qid=1691519244&amp;sprefix=gender%2C+race%2C+and+nationalism+in+contemporary+black+poli%2Caps%2C284&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics</a>.” In the introduction, she wrote: 

“Of the works that are critical of black nationalism and show the weddedness of black nationalism to white mainstream politics, there is still a relative ambivalence about its relationship to gender politics. Tunde Adelieke, for instance, shows that although [19th] century black nationalists opposed white supremacy, they nevertheless not only adopted civilizationist ideas but also actively facilitated African colonization…”

Alexander-Floyd further discussed this book in a video published by the university. She defined the book as a “black culture pathology paradigm” and a “backlash against the social movements of the 1960s and 70s and how…discussions have taken place around black family break down.”

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In her <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Re-Imagining-Black-Women-Post-Feminist-Post-Racial-ebook/dp/B08L9HTNWV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3P8CCMBENBO3V&amp;keywords=reimagining+black+women%3A+a+critique+of+post-feminists+and+post-racial+melodrama&amp;qid=1691520097&amp;sprefix=reimagining+black+women+a+critique+of+post-feminists+and+post-racial+mel%2Caps%2C270&amp;sr=8-1">book</a> “Re-Imagining Black Women: A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics,” Alexander-Floyd declared: 

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<a href="https://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/faculty-member/974-roane-j-t" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.T. Roane</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University. Roane’s faculty profile shows him on leave for the 2023-2024 academic year. His research interests include “black geographies,” “black ecologies,” “black gender and sexuality studies” and “African American and African Diaspora History.” Roane is also listed as a <a href="https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/jt-roane" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faculty Fellow</a> at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center.

In June 2023, <a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-black-geography-of-the-city/">Boston Review</a> interviewed Roane about <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Agoras-Insurgent-Social-Politics/dp/1479847674/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21MANUVSI36NU&amp;keywords=dark+agoras&amp;qid=1699479018&amp;sprefix=dark+agoras%2Caps%2C154&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B09X2GLKKH&amp;revisionId=fb4c3c45&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his book</a> “Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place” in which he “investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods.”

Roane introduced the book by stating:
“Dark <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=agoras+meaning&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS1021US1022&amp;oq=agoras+meaning&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIJCAYQABgKGIAEMg0IBxAuGMcBGNEDGIAEMgcICBAAGIAEMgkICRAAGAoYgATSAQkxNTU1MGowajeoAgCwAgA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agoras</a> emerged under slavery through the active reinvention of African socialities and consciousnesses about place, identity, kinship, and belonging as the negation of the spatial and temporal features associated with domination and slave mastery…”
He goes on to state:
“Connections within the sites constituting dark agoras, as well as encounters across them and movement between them, underwrote a distinctive black working-class phenomenology of the city, the basis of what I term black queer urbanism…Black queer urbanism refers to a critical approach that views nonnormative forms of black social-geographic life…”
During the <a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-black-geography-of-the-city/">Boston Review</a> interview, Roane responded to the question: “In your book, you argue that the stoop stands as one of the places that constitute the underground. How does this domestic exterior transform into a vital place for sociality?” Roane said:
“The stoop has a whole genealogy. The black uses of the stoop emerge out of the uses of the quarters in the context of the plantation…that was integrally related to their geographic position to the side of the major formation of the plantation—the big house—and to the spaces of labor, the field...
“When black communities get displaced during the Jim Crow enclosures…they don’t just relinquish those values.”
Roane was also featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/watch-profs-discuss-spirituality-of-non-binary-vaginas-femme-penises-and-black-queer-religions/21679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after participating in the <a href="https://youtu.be/0A3ID6pPsCU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> “Black Queer Religions Afro-Indigenous &amp; New Religions.” Among the topics covered, panelists discussed “the reality of non-binary vaginas and biologically femme penises.”

Roane is an outspoken supporter of Palestine. After the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, he <a href="https://www.answercoalition.org/open_letter_harvard_palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter</a> defending pro-Hamas rallies at Harvard University. The letter states, 
“The case of Harvard University is only one of many examples of the attacks that those who express solidarity with the Palestinians struggle face; attacks that are rapidly escalating at this time. Likewise, violent hate crimes against Palestinians are taking place around the country.”
Roane posted on X, formerly known as Twitter—
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The ongoing bombardment of Gaza is genocidal and ecocidal. The relentless ethnic clearing is going along with stuff like bombing fisheries. This will not strictly be contained to one place/ one people. The logics will spread as will their effects. Ceasefire Now!
— J.T. Roane (@JTRoane) <a href="https://twitter.com/JTRoane/status/1721858110485155992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://law.rutgers.edu/directory/view/shawkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stacy Hawkins</a> is a Professor of Law at Rutgers University. According to her profile, Hawkins “served on the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession Diversity Task Force.” 

On March 26, 2024, Hawkins was featured in a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/rutgers-university-professor-without-dei-offices-there-no-ability-make-meaningful-progress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News article</a> titled “Rutgers University professor says without DEI offices, there is ‘no ability to make meaningful progress.’” The source said Hawkins participated in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gh2ynXTe3I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion panel hosted by Harvard University</a> to evaluate the role of DEI on campus. Fox noted that Hawkins was the only panelist to “defend DEI imperatives.”

During the panel discussion, Hawkins justified DEI on campus by stating:
“I’m a scholar and I do believe in the scholarly methods with analytical and empirical rigor. But I am also an unabashed proponent of diversity. And whether you call it diversity, which I do, as a shorthand for diversity, equity, and inclusion — sometimes also including ‘belonging’ — I do think that it is a rather unassailable, aspirational principle for us in this country.”
Hawkins continued:
“The reason why I think that is, is because it is really consonant with some very foundational values that we have in our country and as part of our democracy — and those are pluralism and equality. Those are really the underlying motivations for why we aspire to and we seek to achieve diversity.”
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In October 2022, Hawkins participated in a <a href="https://newsone.com/4436920/rutgers-law-professor-stacy-hawkins-explains-supreme-court-affirmative-action-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Q&amp;A hosted by Newsone</a> to comment on the racial discrimination cases against Harvard that would eventually lead to SCOTUS overturning federal affirmative action laws in <a href="https://www.sidley.com/en/insights/newsupdates/2023/08/us-supreme-court-ends-affirmative-action-in-higher-education--an-overview-and-practical-next-steps#:~:text=On%20June%2029%2C%202023%2C%20the,Carolina%20(UNC)%2C%20Nos." target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 2023</a>.  
According to the transcript, Hawkins was asked, “What is the implication for higher education?” She responded:
“It depends on whether the Court does what many expect it to do, which overrules longstanding precedent and says that colleges and universities may not consider race or ethnicity in admission — even if it is necessary to achieve diversity … Valuing and promoting diversity has become such an integral part of how many colleges and universities pursue their educational missions that it would require a fundamental change in how those [institutions] operate.”
Later in the interview, Hawkins pointed to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and stated that the “current conservative majority on the Court has demonstrated a willingness to unsettle even the most deeply settled legal precedents.” She also claimed that Justices Roberts, Thomas, and Alito had “already expressed hostility to the use of race and ethnicity in college and university admissions.”

In February 2024, Hawkins joined a virtual <a href="https://fedsoc.org/events/race-at-work-can-businesses-treat-people-differently-on-the-basis-of-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion held by The Federalist Society</a> called “Race At Work.” Hawkins said:
“Affirmative action is not just remedial, but it involves explicit, expressed, and admitted considerations of race or gender in decision-making … That’s not how diversity works. Not only is it not remedial, it also need not and most often does not involve any explicit considerations of race or gender in decision-making — which is the reason why it is highly defensible …
“An employee who is challenging a diversity program has to prove that the employer is lying about the fact that while they might care about diversity, they did not explicitly make a decision on the basis solely of race. That’s not how diversity works.”
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<a href="https://rcha.rutgers.edu/maya-mikdashi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maya Mikdashi</a> is a Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. According to her profile, Mikdashi’s research “focuses on law, citizenship, secularity, religious conversion, sexual difference, and the war on terror.”

On March 30, 2024, Maya Mikdashi was <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13256133/Maya-Mikdashi-Rutgers-University-Israel-Hamas-violent-LGBT-treatment-Gaza.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in an article</a> titled “Bizarre moment Rutgers gender study professor tells seminar that it’s ‘homophobic and violent’ to flag how badly LGBT people are treated in Gaza.” The Daily Mail said, “[Mikdashi] … told students earlier this month that she has been approached by people at pro-Palestine protests who tell her that she would be treated horribly by Hamas.”

Mikdashi reportedly stated, “So, I’ve been at protests where I’m then told ‘don’t you know what Hamas would do to you, if you were in Palestine[?]’ … We have to start naming this as homophobic. You cannot rehearse violence to queer people. It’s violent.”

<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/rutgers-professor-lgbtq-palestine-homophobic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blaze Media wrote</a>, “Mikdashi has absolutely no issue with bashing the United States for transphobia and a slew of other issues … However, Mikdashi will devotedly defend Hamas against anyone who points out the fact that Palestine is fanatically against LGBTQ rights.”

The Hamas terrorist organization <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-790635" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is known</a> to publicly humiliate, torture, and murder those who identify as LGBTQ. 

Press coverage came after Mikdashi joined a <a href="https://youtu.be/P62E9was7G4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rutgers panel discussion</a> called “Palestine is a Feminist and Queer Anti-Imperialist Abolition Struggle.” She opened the talk by stating:
“It’s been 166 days of absolute warfare, siege [inaudible] genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza … We’re here for about two hours … and in that time, about four to five Palestinians will be killed by the hour. So, about six will be dead by the end of today … We are witnessing a manmade famine that will only accelerate … with the scale of violence, and reckoning with the complicity of the United States, which is where we are today — and the reality that this is an American war, an American genocide … I feel helpless and I feel hollow almost everyday.”
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Following the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Orlando-shooting-of-2016" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Orlando nightclub shooting</a> in June 2016 — when an Islamic terrorist murdered 49 people in an LGBTQ bar — Mikdashi wrote the following in her paper “<a href="https://www.academia.edu/28643019/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Orlando" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fear and Loathing in Orlando</a>”:

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<a href="https://law.rutgers.edu/directory/view/8277">Sahar Aziz</a> is a Distinguished Professor of Law and a Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers University. Her faculty profile says, “[Aziz]’s scholarship examines the intersection of national security, race, religion, and civil rights with a focus on the adverse impact of national security laws and policies on racial, religious, and ethnic minorities.”

<a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382299/the-racial-muslim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In her book</a> “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom,” Aziz allegedly “demonstrates how race and religion intersect to create what she calls the Racial Muslim [by] [c]omparing discrimination against immigrant Muslims with the prejudicial treatment of Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and African American Muslims during the twentieth century.” The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Racial-Muslim-Quashes-Religious-Freedom/dp/0520382293?asin=0520382293&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduction</a> says:
“[Aziz] … masterfully demonstrates that while 9/11 is a critical historical juncture in the racialization of Muslims, a comprehensive understanding of the extent to which anti-Muslim racism is rooted in American society requires an awareness of the often-overlooked deep historical roots of Anglo-Saxon Protestant nativism and [w]hite supremacy.”
On her <a href="https://twitter.com/saharazizlaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, Aziz advertised an article from the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights (<a href="https://csrr.rutgers.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RCSRR)</a>, for which she serves as the director:
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Groundbreaking report “Presumptively <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antisemitic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Antisemitic</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Islamophobic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Islamophobic</a> Tropes in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestine</a> - <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel</a> Discourse” released by The Center for Security, Race and Rights <a href="https://twitter.com/RUCSRR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rucsrr</a> co-authored with <a href="https://twitter.com/MJPlitnick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MJPlitnick</a> Read and share! <a href="https://t.co/awDD3rxJLD">https://t.co/awDD3rxJLD</a>
— Sahar Aziz (@saharazizlaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/saharazizlaw/status/1722368803768762762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://csrr.rutgers.edu/issues/presumptively-antisemitic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full article</a> — written in response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack against Israel — includes claims of Islamophobia and human rights violations against Muslims and Arabs by Israel, the United States, and other faith groups. The article says:
“While people of all faiths and ethnicities understand and empathize with the historic plight of the Palestinians, nowhere is pro-Israel bias more obvious than when directed against Muslim and Arab defenders of Palestinian human rights … Even U.S. domestic laws are flouted in order to craft human rights exceptions for the apartheid Israeli regime.”
On April 10, 2024, <a href="https://www.tapinto.net/towns/westfield/sections/education/articles/westfield-school-board-member-sahar-aziz-facing-new-ethics-complaint" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TAPinto Westfield revealed</a> that Aziz — who serves on the <a href="https://www.schoolboardwatchlist.org/districts/westfieldpublicschools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Westfield Public Schools</a> Board of Education — received an ethics complaint from a fellow board member. The source said, “In [Board Member Brendan] Galligan’s complaint, he claims Aziz violated the state School Ethics Act by directing insurance-appointed attorney Matthew Giacobbe to send public records requests for fellow board members’ and administrators’ emails in connection with a separate ethics complaint, filed by [a] town resident.”

The resident’s <a href="https://www.tapinto.net/towns/westfield/sections/education/articles/westfield-school-board-vp-refutes-ethics-complaint-alleging-antisemitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initial complaint</a> accused Aziz of antisemitism due to her “criticism of Israel and support of Palestine.” According to TAPinto Westfield, the plaintiff’s complaint also “claims Aziz used her ‘bully pulpit while a New Jersey education official to attack Jewish people.’” The complaint was ultimately <a href="https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/education/2023/12/22/antisemitism-westfield-school-board-sahar-aziz-rutgers-dismissed/72000125007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissed</a> and Aziz’s request to sanction the plaintiff was denied.

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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracy-budd-46a8bb4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to LinkedIn</a>, Tracy Budd is a full-time, non-tenure Writing Program Faculty member at Rutgers University. She is also listed as an <a href="https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/people/ma-alumni-listing?view=article&amp;id=1109:budd-tracy&amp;catid=255" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alumnus</a> of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Rutgers.

Following the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Budd took to social media to express her regrets that the shooter missed his target. Budd’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tbudd17">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://x.com/thereal_tbudd?lang=en">Twitter</a> accounts have since both been deleted.

<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/rutgers-prof-trump-assassination-attempt-lets-hope-todays-events-inspire-others-exclusive/25959" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> featured Budd’s posts in an article titled “Rutgers professor under internal review for comments after Trump assassination attempt: ‘Let’s hope today’s events inspire others.’”

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Campus Reform recorded the university’s response:
“Rutgers University-New Brunswick condemns calls for violence in the strongest possible terms and remains committed to upholding the principles of civil discourse … The university is reviewing this matter and assures that any appropriate actions will be taken based on our policies.”
Budd’s website, <a href="http://tracybudd.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TracyBudd.com</a>, also appears to be offline. Internet archives <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090106211025/http://www.tracybudd.com/wordpress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">captured a 2008 post</a> entitled “Obama bin Biden his time,” in which Budd commented on the presidential election. She labeled former President Barack Obama a “centrist” and said:
“I am a socialist and a far-leftist. Obama does not sit well with me. This is exactly how our party has drifted to the right … [Y]et you may wonder how I could support Hillary [Clinton] whose voting record and strategies are nearly identical to Barack’s. Please refer to the posts entitled ‘Primary Instinct: V for Vagina, Victory and Vote’ or ‘Woman is the N*gger of the World.’”
The Watchlist could not recover the content mentioned in her quote.

Despite calls for Budd’s <a href="https://nj1015.com/json-ed-durr-calls-for-rutgers-firing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">termination</a>, as of publication, she remains employed by Rutgers University. 

Please send tips, updates, and information on Tracy Budd to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - August 1, 2024

<a href="https://gse.rutgers.edu/faculty/melinda-m-mangin-phd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melinda Mangin</a> is a Professor in the Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration at Rutgers University. According to her faculty profile, “Mangin’s scholarly interests fall into two primary categories: teacher leadership and inclusive schools for transgender people.”

During a 2023 interview with <a href="https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/edcast/23/03/creating-trans-inclusive-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard EdCast</a>, Mangin discussed her view that gender is not binary and how schools fail to affirm this for students. According to Mangin, gender is a journey that kids should be able to explore:

“We want all our kids to be able to go to school and just be themselves, and enjoy school, and have a good day. When you talk to parents, they just want their kids to be happy. And we know that gender's not a binary. So when schools are places where we don't recognize the diversity of genders that our kids bring, they become places where our kids aren't affirmed. And so we want kids to be able to explore who they are, explore learning. Gender's a journey. It's a learning journey to figure out who you are. And so we want schools to be inclusive of that journey for all of our kids.” 

In 2022, Mangin and Mario I. Suarez co-wrote a book titled  “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Trans_Studies_in_K_12_Education/IDehEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;pg=PT7&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trans Studies in K-12 Education</a>.” The publisher describes the books as a “vital inquiry into trans issues in education”:  

“[T]his compelling work argues for the design of education research, policies, and environments that honor all gender experiences and identities… The collection offers a comprehensive examination of how gender is manifested in the educational context.”

The authors claim that gender manifests itself among students through the traditional divisions placed between boys and girls within the school setting. This reinforces cisnormative ideals (which the authors find harmful to “non-binary” students):

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They further claim that K-12 schools are “cisnormative” spaces. This allegedly began with the “colonization of the Americas” and the treatment of Indigenous people by the U.S. and Canada: 
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Please send information on Melissa Mangin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

Published - November 21, 2024

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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 former U.S. President Donald Trump. Specifically, she related the assassination attempt to those attempts made on “authoritarian” leaders in recent history:
“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 concluded her article with the following statement:
“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 former President 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 former President Trumps' 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.”
Please send information 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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Published - November 17, 2022

<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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Published - December 1, 2022

<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

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<a href="https://history.osu.edu/people/jeffries.57" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries</a> is an associate professor of history at <a href="https://www.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio State University</a>. According to his university profile, his areas of expertise include the following:
&#8211; African-American History
&#8211; US History since 1877
&#8211; Human Conflict, Peace, and Diplomacy,
&#8211; Power, Culture, and the State,
&#8211; Race, Ethnicity, and Nation
Dr. Hasan Kwame is an adherent to critical race theory and frequently defends the field in his lectures and speeches. In addition, he advises local high schools and school districts on how to teach critical theory to students.
On his personal Twitter account, Dr. Jeffries <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfJeffries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">frequently characterizes conservatives as white nationalists, supremacists and other epithets</a>. In one tweet, he lashes out at South Carolina Senator Tim Scott—currently the sole black Republican in the United States Senate—as the “blackface” of white supremacy.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GOP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#GOP</a> is the party of white supremacy and Sen. Tim Scott is its Blackface. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EndofDiscussion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#EndofDiscussion</a>
“Fact-checking GOP response to Biden&#8217;s joint address”<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TimScott?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#TimScott</a><a href="https://t.co/bBCqSEWSz2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/bBCqSEWSz2</a>
— Hasan Kwame Jeffries (@ProfJeffries) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfJeffries/status/1387776742245421057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In other lectures, Dr. Jeffries portrays America as a systemically racist nation. He thus defends critical race theory as necessary to understand oppression and the history of racism in the United States.
As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes</a> for Breitbart News, critical race theory—also referred to as “critical 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.
In a speech for <a href="https://www.cityclub.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The City Club of Cleveland</a>, Dr. Jeffries <a href="https://www.cityclub.org/forums/2021/08/20/misunderstanding-critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lauds critical race theory as necessary to understand that racism is “systemic, deeply embedded, and produces racial inequality in our society</a>.” At one point while addressing the accusation that critical race theory brands all white people as racist, Dr. Jeffries retorts that while all white people are not born racist, all white people born in America are, in fact, racist.
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He further characterizes any opposition to critical race theory as a “racial reckoning” used to whip up conservative voters as “racism is the greatest organizing force” in American history. While denying that critical race theory is taught in American schools, he nonetheless advocates for students to learn it.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Jeffries conducts training for local school districts in Ohio. In one lesson plan for <a href="https://www.olentangy.k12.oh.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Olentangy Local School District </a>obtained by the Professor Watchlist team, Dr. Jeffries advises teachers on how to teach critical theory and social justice movements to their students.
In Section One—titled, “Confronting Hard History: Teaching and Talking About Race and Racism in K-12 Classrooms,”—Dr. Jeffries addresses the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and instructs teachers to incorporate the movement’s tenets into their lesson plans.
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>
Despite the destruction, Dr. Jeffries lauds the protests for seeking justice for systemic racism. He urges educators to incorporate this into their lesson plans when teaching about BLM. He further endorses explicitly discussing race and racial issues in the classroom as not doing so— or what Dr. Jeffries defines it as the “color-blind trap”— seeks to “erase” the experiences of people of color.
In part two of the training, Dr. Jeffries instructs teachers that America was founded in the year 1619 rather than 1776. He states that it is vital to understand the nation was founded on the double-helix of racism and capitalism.
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Dr. Nikole Hannah Jones likewise <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</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. <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Though now retracted for numerous false claims</a>, the documents have now been <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added to the curriculum of 4,500 schools across the country</a>.
To read more on Dr. Nikole Hannah Jones, users can <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones">view her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.
Dr. Jones further states that it is vital to teach children how racism is encoded into the Constitution and our founding documents, as well as to regard founding fathers like James Madison as virulent racists.
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Throughout each lecture, Dr. Jeffries stresses the importance of teaching about the lingering effects of racism to students today.
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Jeffries for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State University at (614) 292-1667.
 
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<a href="http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/faculty/professor/joshua-dressler/">Joshua Dressler</a> is a Distinguished University Professor and the Frank R. Strong Chair in Law at The Ohio State University.  Dressler told his students that Ted Cruz’s comments to Donald Trump were anti-Semitic. Dressler claimed that Cruz’s infamous “New York values” statement was directed toward Jewish people in a negative way.

<a href="https://history.osu.edu/people/jeffries.57" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries</a> is an associate professor of history at <a href="https://www.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio State University</a>. According to his university profile, his areas of expertise include the following:

- African-American History

- US History since 1877

- Human Conflict, Peace, and Diplomacy,

- Power, Culture, and the State,

- Race, Ethnicity, and Nation

Dr. Hasan Kwame is an adherent to critical race theory and frequently defends the field in his lectures and speeches. In addition, he advises local high schools and school districts on how to teach critical theory to students.

On his personal Twitter account, Dr. Jeffries <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfJeffries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">frequently characterizes conservatives as white nationalists, supremacists and other epithets</a>. In one tweet, he lashes out at South Carolina Senator Tim Scott—currently the sole black Republican in the United States Senate—as the “blackface” of white supremacy.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GOP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#GOP</a> is the party of white supremacy and Sen. Tim Scott is its Blackface. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EndofDiscussion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#EndofDiscussion</a>
“Fact-checking GOP response to Biden's joint address”<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TimScott?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#TimScott</a><a href="https://t.co/bBCqSEWSz2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/bBCqSEWSz2</a>

— Hasan Kwame Jeffries (@ProfJeffries) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfJeffries/status/1387776742245421057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In other lectures, Dr. Jeffries portrays America as a systemically racist nation. He thus defends critical race theory as necessary to understand oppression and the history of racism in the United States.

As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes</a> for Breitbart News, critical race theory—also referred to as “critical 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.

In a speech for <a href="https://www.cityclub.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The City Club of Cleveland</a>, Dr. Jeffries <a href="https://www.cityclub.org/forums/2021/08/20/misunderstanding-critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lauds critical race theory as necessary to understand that racism is “systemic, deeply embedded, and produces racial inequality in our society</a>.” At one point while addressing the accusation that critical race theory brands all white people as racist, Dr. Jeffries retorts that while all white people are not born racist, all white people born in America are, in fact, racist.

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He further characterizes any opposition to critical race theory as a “racial reckoning” used to whip up conservative voters as “racism is the greatest organizing force” in American history. While denying that critical race theory is taught in American schools, he nonetheless advocates for students to learn it.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Jeffries conducts training for local school districts in Ohio. In one lesson plan for <a href="https://www.olentangy.k12.oh.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Olentangy Local School District </a>obtained by the Professor Watchlist team, Dr. Jeffries advises teachers on how to teach critical theory and social justice movements to their students.

In Section One—titled, “Confronting Hard History: Teaching and Talking About Race and Racism in K-12 Classrooms,”—Dr. Jeffries addresses the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and instructs teachers to incorporate the movement’s tenets into their lesson plans.

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>

Despite the destruction, Dr. Jeffries lauds the protests for seeking justice for systemic racism. He urges educators to incorporate this into their lesson plans when teaching about BLM. He further endorses explicitly discussing race and racial issues in the classroom as not doing so— or what Dr. Jeffries defines it as the “color-blind trap”— seeks to “erase” the experiences of people of color.

In part two of the training, Dr. Jeffries instructs teachers that America was founded in the year 1619 rather than 1776. He states that it is vital to understand the nation was founded on the double-helix of racism and capitalism.

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Dr. Nikole Hannah Jones likewise <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</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. <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Though now retracted for numerous false claims</a>, the documents have now been <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added to the curriculum of 4,500 schools across the country</a>.

To read more on Dr. Nikole Hannah Jones, users can <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones">view her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

Dr. Jones further states that it is vital to teach children how racism is encoded into the Constitution and our founding documents, as well as to regard founding fathers like James Madison as virulent racists.

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Throughout each lecture, Dr. Jeffries stresses the importance of teaching about the lingering effects of racism to students today.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Jeffries for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State University at (614) 292-1667.
 
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<a href="https://wgss.osu.edu/people/lindsey.268" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Treva Lindsey</a> is an Associate Professor in the <a href="https://wgss.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies</a> at <a href="https://www.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ohio State University.</a> According to her university bio, Dr. Lindsay specializes in areas such as African American Women’s History, black feminism, critical race, and gender theory, among other sexual politics.

Dr. Lindsay frequently writes and is invited to lecture about sexual assault prevention on college campuses. In a video of a lecture at Portland State University, Dr. Lindsay can be heard <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZugy4C-Udg&amp;ab_channel=PortlandStateUniversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggesting rehabilitating those who’ve committed sexual assault by teaching them to unlearn their “toxic masculinity” and innate homophobia</a>.

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Dr. Treva Lindsay frequently writes for a number of prominent publications—such as <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/9/5/race-in-the-us-herstory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al Jazeera</a>, <a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/author/14721/treva-lindsey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cosmopolitan</a>, and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/27/opinions/r-kelly-conviction-black-women-and-girls-lindsey/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>— accusing the United States of being systematically racist and calling for the abolishment of policing. She additionally praises the BLM movement for its alleged efforts to combat systemic racism.

Black Lives Matter (BLM,) as an organization, was <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/six-years-strong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">founded following the death</a> of Treyvon Martin and the trial of George Zimmerman for his murder. After a jury acquitted Zimmerman in 2013, <a href="https://patrissecullors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patrice Cullors</a> joined with <a href="https://aliciagarza.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alicia Garza</a> and <a href="https://www.opaltometi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Opal Tometi</a> to found the organization. BLM’s mission is to “eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on black communities by the state and vigilantes.”

In an article for Complex, Dr. Lindsay praises BLM and its umbrella organization, the Movement for Black Lives, for their <a href="https://www.complex.com/life/2017/02/black-history-month-five-years-after-trayvon-martin-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">role in awakening Americans to the reality of “anti-black racism</a>.” In the same article, she alleges that “millions” of black Americans have been victims of systemic racism for hundreds of years, and still are today.

In a separate article for NBC News, Dr. Lindsay decries the  passage of Juneteenth, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/juneteenth-honors-black-emancipation-hope-equality-federal-holiday-doesn-t-ncna1271356" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describing it as trivial and merely a “symbolic gesture.</a>” A bill to make Juneteenth—a holiday <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abolition-of-slavery-announced-in-texas-juneteenth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrating the announcement that slavery had ended in Texas</a>— a national holiday was passed with the <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-signs-bill-making-juneteenth-a-federal-holiday/ar-AAL92UE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bipartisan support of both houses</a> before it was signed into law in June of 2020.

Nonetheless, Dr. Lindsay writes that she can’t help but feel “contempt” towards white people for their support, critiquing the holiday as inadequate to combat “sanctioned white supremacy.”

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She mirrors her characterization in an article for Bustle, describing the history of the United States as <a href="https://www.bustle.com/p/the-lack-of-mobilized-outrage-for-police-killing-black-women-is-injurious-erasure-22953764" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encompassing the murder of black people from slavery to the present day</a>.

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Dr. Lindsay builds on her allegation in another article for Complex, <a href="https://www.complex.com/life/2016/09/blue-lives-matter-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">specifically citing “racist policing” and “police brutality'' as the 2 “most visible” forms of state violence</a> against black people. As such, Dr. Lindsay has openly called for the defunding of police on her <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal Twitter account</a>.
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Since Chauvin’s guilty verdict, there have been at least SIX more people killed by police.
A guilty verdict from a criminal punishment system hellbent on preserving itself- it will continue striking back and out until we dismantle. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AbolishThePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AbolishThePolice</a> <a href="https://t.co/a2noWozUCz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/a2noWozUCz</a>

— Treva B (@divafeminist) <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist/status/1386004406500569090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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We out here just trying to survive policing and calling for defunding and abolishing the police.
Just erasing the history of Pride as originating in rebelling against policing. 🙄 <a href="https://t.co/m8v371ftrm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/m8v371ftrm</a> <a href="https://t.co/zYHmwhGH1I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/zYHmwhGH1I</a>

— Treva B (@divafeminist) <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist/status/1395174584639438855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In one tweet, she calls for the abolishment of police officers following the death of Ma’Khia Bryant.
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It’s not a police-involved shooting. GTFOH with that passive, non-specific description.
Columbus police KILLED a 15 y/o Black girl named Ma’Khia. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MakhiaBryant?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MakhiaBryant</a> should be here and these cruel and violent systems should not. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SayHerName?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SayHerName</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AbolishThePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AbolishThePolice</a> <a href="https://t.co/52PraZ2WaL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/52PraZ2WaL</a>

— Treva B (@divafeminist) <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist/status/1384686732193509388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Referencing an August 2020 incident, a <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2021/04/20/graphic-video-columbus-police-release-bodycam-video-of-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbus, Ohio police officer was called over a domestic dispute involving Bryant</a>. When the officer arrived, Bryant was at the center of a fight with several other girls. Bryant then drew a knife and the responding officer ordered her to drop the weapon. Bryant then lunged at another girl with the knife, causing the officer to shoot and fatally wound her.

Despite <a href="https://twitter.com/shanermurph/status/1384703749046915074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1384703749046915074%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Flaw-and-order%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Fgraphic-video-columbus-police-release-bodycam-video-of-shooting%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evidence from the body-cam exonerating his actions</a>, Dr. Lindsay still alleges the incident is further proof of systemic racism and brutality directed specifically at black Americans. In an article for the site Truthout, she describes the officer’s actions—along with anyone who would defend them—<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/we-are-fighting-for-a-world-where-makhia-bryant-would-have-lived/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as the normalization of police violence and “erasing the long and inglorious history” of police violence against black people</a>. Dr. Lindsay further states that Bryant should still be alive while calling for the defunding and eventual abolishment of police.

“Police do not make us safer. Police do not make Black children safer. Not at school. Not on university campuses. Not at home. As the body camera footage shows, police escalate. The killing of Ma’Khia is yet another painful reminder of why a growing number of people are focusing their energies on building alternatives to policing and demanding that we defund the police. It’s a reminder why so many people are agitating to remove the police from our homes, communities, and schools — and eventually abolish policing altogether.”

Despite her defense of Byrant, Dr. Lindsay holds a paradoxical stance on the police shooting of Ashli Babbitt. In a separate article for Bitch Media, Dr. Lindsay <a href="https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/not-applying-say-her-name-to-white-supremacists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defends the actions of the Capitol Officer who shot Babbitt</a>. Describing her as a white supremacist—and providing no evidence—who took part in an insurrection alongside a “lynch mob.”

Dr. Lindsay is referring to the January 6th Capitol Hill Riots, <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>. 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>” Ashli Babbitt was shot by Officer Michael Byrd as she attempted to climb through the broken window of a closed door. A review by the DC Metropolitan Police<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/documents-ashli-babbitt-death-foia-capitol-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> confirmed that Babbitt was unarmed when shot</a>.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Arts and Sciences</a> of The Ohio State University at (614) 292-1667. 
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<a href="https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/find-a-doctor/profiles/scott-f-leibowitz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Scott Leibowitz</a> is an <a href="https://medicine.osu.edu/departments/psychiatry-and-behavioral-health/our-people/our-faculty-h-n" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor</a> in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Leibowitz is also the Medical Director for Behavioral Health at the THRIVE Gender and Sex Development Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

According to the THRIVE <a href="https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/specialties/thrive-program/gender-development" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, “Our behavioral health providers serve patients and families who are seeking gender affirming medical treatment or when gender identity development plays a significant role in their emotional and social wellbeing.”

In June 2021, Dr. Leibowitz and Co-Medical Director of the THRIVE Gender Development Program Dr. Gayathri Chelvakumar, wrote an op-ed for <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2021/06/23/gayathri-chelvakumar-and-scott-leibowitz-bills-increase-stigma-isolation-many-transgender-youth-fee/5297432001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Columbus Dispatch</a> in response to the “national wave of anti-transgender legislation.”

They write, “As healers, we follow ethical guidelines to deliver evidence-informed treatment options that are acknowledged and well-recognized by the academic and professional societies we belong to.” They argue “the last thing that transgender youth need are lawmakers restricting their athletic participation or eliminating important beneficial medical options for them.”

Dr. Leibowitz and Dr. Chelvakumar conclude the article by saying, “We urge our lawmakers to listen to the voices of the transgender youth and families, and those who provide care to them every day and abandon this harmful attempt to further alienate LGBTQ youth.”

Dr. Leibowitz also shared his thoughts about the legislation on Twitter:
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Even the mere introduction of these discriminatory legislative efforts- regardless of their ultimate success- sends a message to trans and gender diverse young people that they are “other”- and that is unacceptable. Support <a href="https://twitter.com/EqualityOhio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@EqualityOhio</a> and protect trans youth. <a href="https://t.co/XYsUanjh6R" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/XYsUanjh6R</a>
— Scott Leibowitz, MD (@ScottLeibowitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottLeibowitz/status/1410047097420779522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 30, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In March 2023, Dr. Leibowitz—along with dozens of other professors—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The statement focuses on two key points:
“First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care.” 
The signatories conclude their <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.” 
Dr. Leibowitz is also a <a href="https://www.wpath.org/member/514" target="_blank" rel="noopener">member</a> of the <a href="https://www.wpath.org/about/mission-and-vision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)</a>. The organization, which is funded primarily through its members, says its mission is “to promote evidence based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transgender health.”

WPATH has a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement that reads, in part:
“WPATH affirms its commitment to diversity and inclusion as principles that enrich individuals, and society as a whole. We strive to learn from diverse perspectives, and through inclusivity, we pay homage to the fundamental principles of dignity, equality, equity, justice, and fairness.” 
In addition:
“WPATH encourages our members to champion these principles as well, and to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in their work, workplaces, and everyday lives.”
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<a href="https://english.osu.edu/people/jani.4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pranav Jani</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University. According to his university profile, Jani is a “longtime social justice activist” who specializes in “South Asia and the South Asian diaspora, Marxist theories of nationalism and colonialism, and the intertwined legacies of colonialism, settler colonialism and slavery.”

After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Jani wrote an article titled “<a href="https://pranavjani.medium.com/finding-the-courage-to-speak-93c4dbf94fb9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finding the Courage to Speak</a>,” where he said:
“Today, political and social forces bear down on us and tell us not to speak against the genocidal war in Gaza - using the terrible death of Israeli civilians as a way to keep our mouths shut about Palestinian civilian deaths, expulsion, and starvation, today and for 75 years.” 
He then encouraged his readers to “stand up against injustice” and “speak out to the best of our ability.”

Jani acts as the faculty advisor for Ohio State’s chapter of <a href="https://activities.osu.edu/involvement/student_organizations/find_a_student_org?i=1422&amp;l=C&amp;page=6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Students for Justice in Palestine</a>. According to the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/its-not-just-students-meet-the-professors-leading-the-academic-embrace-of-hamas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Free Beacon</a>, the group held a “day of resistance” rally where organizers defended Hamas terrorism and condemned Israel’s “apartheid system.” The group also issued a statement defending Hamas’s “right to resist” and denounced “Israel’s continued settler colonial violent murder of Palestinians.”

Jani has been a vocal supporter of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. In 2016, he penned an article titled, “<a href="https://mlaboycott.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/pranav-janis-statement-in-support-of-a-boycott-of-israeli-academic-institutions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement in Support of a Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions</a>,” where he wrote:
“When you join the boycott of Israel you are responding to a call from Palestinian civil society and saying that no, we, as part of a global community that is committed to human rights, will not be silent while atrocities under a military colonial occupation go on month after month, year after year … If you refuse to see this line, you are also taking a stand: for the status quo. You are free to do so, of course. But then please don’t speak to me about your anti-racism.” 
Jani is also an <a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-backlash-against-racial-justice-education-recent-talks-interviews-and-writing-faa2bac2f05c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocate for critical race theory</a>. In an article titled “The Backlash Against Racial Justice Education: Recent Talks, Interviews, and Writing,” he alleges that CRT has become a “catch-all term for challenging racial justice and social justice education.” He writes:
“Under the cover of fighting ‘left-wing indoctrination,’ the White Right goes after all of the gains that educators have made in challenging curricula based on erasing racism, sexism, and oppression in U.S. history and society…”
“...Right-wing media and politicians have created a false narrative about Critical Race Theory, a field in legal studies, as their latest attempt to suppress honest dialogue and policy about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education - particularly as it relates to the topics of racism, slavery, and colonialism.” 
Jani has also called on people to “<a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/organize-and-mobilize-fight-ohio-sb-83-524eac3048d0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organize and mobilize</a>” against Ohio Senate Bill 83. According to <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/03/16/why-should-ohio-senate-bill-83-be-stopped-what-efforts-underway-ohio-state-university-free-speach/70014225007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Columbus Dispatch</a>, Senate Bill 83 would include, among other things, “an end to diversity training mandates, a ban on partnerships with Chinese universities, and mandatory American history courses.”

He believes the bill is an “attempt to roll back the changes in K-12 and higher education, and in society at large, that have taken place since the 1960s.” He attributes this to the “Donald Trump/Ron DeSantis era” which he claims is a “deep backlash against Black rebellion against police violence, trans visibility, growing unionization efforts, DEI programs, and other signs that many sections of U.S. society want to take on both structural oppression and its daily manifestations.”

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Published - October 31, 2023

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<a href="https://law.rutgers.edu/directory/view/8277">Sahar Aziz</a> is a Distinguished Professor of Law and a Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers University. Her faculty profile says, “[Aziz]’s scholarship examines the intersection of national security, race, religion, and civil rights with a focus on the adverse impact of national security laws and policies on racial, religious, and ethnic minorities.”
<a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382299/the-racial-muslim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In her book</a> “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom,” Aziz allegedly “demonstrates how race and religion intersect to create what she calls the Racial Muslim [by] [c]omparing discrimination against immigrant Muslims with the prejudicial treatment of Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and African American Muslims during the twentieth century.” The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Racial-Muslim-Quashes-Religious-Freedom/dp/0520382293?asin=0520382293&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduction</a> says:
“[Aziz] … masterfully demonstrates that while 9/11 is a critical historical juncture in the racialization of Muslims, a comprehensive understanding of the extent to which anti-Muslim racism is rooted in American society requires an awareness of the often-overlooked deep historical roots of Anglo-Saxon Protestant nativism and [w]hite supremacy.”
On her <a href="https://twitter.com/saharazizlaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, Aziz advertised an article from the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights (<a href="https://csrr.rutgers.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RCSRR)</a>, for which she serves as the director:
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Groundbreaking report “Presumptively <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antisemitic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Antisemitic</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Islamophobic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Islamophobic</a> Tropes in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestine</a> &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel</a> Discourse” released by The Center for Security, Race and Rights <a href="https://twitter.com/RUCSRR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rucsrr</a> co-authored with <a href="https://twitter.com/MJPlitnick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MJPlitnick</a> Read and share! <a href="https://t.co/awDD3rxJLD">https://t.co/awDD3rxJLD</a>
— Sahar Aziz (@saharazizlaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/saharazizlaw/status/1722368803768762762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://csrr.rutgers.edu/issues/presumptively-antisemitic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full article</a> — written in response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack against Israel — includes claims of Islamophobia and human rights violations against Muslims and Arabs by Israel, the United States, and other faith groups. The article says:
“While people of all faiths and ethnicities understand and empathize with the historic plight of the Palestinians, nowhere is pro-Israel bias more obvious than when directed against Muslim and Arab defenders of Palestinian human rights … Even U.S. domestic laws are flouted in order to craft human rights exceptions for the apartheid Israeli regime.”
On April 10, 2024, <a href="https://www.tapinto.net/towns/westfield/sections/education/articles/westfield-school-board-member-sahar-aziz-facing-new-ethics-complaint" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TAPinto Westfield revealed</a> that Aziz — who serves on the <a href="https://www.schoolboardwatchlist.org/districts/westfieldpublicschools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Westfield Public Schools</a> Board of Education — received an ethics complaint from a fellow board member. The source said, “In [Board Member Brendan] Galligan’s complaint, he claims Aziz violated the state School Ethics Act by directing insurance-appointed attorney Matthew Giacobbe to send public records requests for fellow board members’ and administrators’ emails in connection with a separate ethics complaint, filed by [a] town resident.”
The resident’s <a href="https://www.tapinto.net/towns/westfield/sections/education/articles/westfield-school-board-vp-refutes-ethics-complaint-alleging-antisemitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initial complaint</a> accused Aziz of antisemitism due to her “criticism of Israel and support of Palestine.” According to TAPinto Westfield, the plaintiff’s complaint also “claims Aziz used her ‘bully pulpit while a New Jersey education official to attack Jewish people.’” The complaint was ultimately <a href="https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/education/2023/12/22/antisemitism-westfield-school-board-sahar-aziz-rutgers-dismissed/72000125007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissed</a> and Aziz’s request to sanction the plaintiff was denied.
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Please send tips and information on Sahar Aziz to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published &#8211; April 12, 2024

Antisemitism

Sahar Aziz

Dr. Neal Lester is a professor of African American Studies at Arizona State University.
As a guest on Dr. Phil, he stated “I put [cultural appropriation] on the same level of white supremacy, because white supremacy [is] intersectional.” According to Dr. Lester, “when we’re putting on someone else’s culture, that is somebody else’s identity.” He continued by stating that “<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-rubin-report/dr-phil-dr-lester-white-supremacy?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white supremacy is embedded in everything,</a> in everything, and cultural appropriation is about that.”
Dr. Lester also <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=20384" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked white people</a> with dreadlocks and afros by calling their appearance a “performance.” He stated, “you do that because it’s edgy, it’s cool, but ultimately because it’s not you.” According to Dr. Lester, “you’re getting some type of cultural capital from that.”
Dr. Lester also wrote an article titled No, I’m not okay in which he discusses <a href="https://www.ahwatukee.com/article_5290bff0-a59e-11ea-b358-cbbc878a7ac0.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racism in America.</a> He states to his “white friends who ask if I am okay, the answer is, ‘No, I am not okay.’” He continues by claiming that asking that question during the Covid-19 pandemic which “is disproportionately killing black and brown people in the US, and while experiencing the trauma resulting from the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd is not good.” He also states that “Dealing with American racism in all of its insidious forms, police brutality, human loss and suffering cannot be captured in sound bites.”
In the same article, he continues, “I am also not okay when I see so many Facebook posts and threads now of alleged white allies asking black folks to give them a blueprint of how and where to direct their anger and outrage.” He then dismisses complaints about the 2020 riots that saw property destroyed across the United States. He says “While I do not legitimize violence as a principle, I ask that concerned individuals &#8211; black and white &#8211; measure the impact of destroying property as compared to killing people.” He states that “Property can be insured and rebuilt. Dead bodies cannot be resurrected with a life insurance policy.”
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Published &#8211; October 19, 2022

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Arizona State University Professor David Boyles—who <a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queer-joy-summer-planting-3-promote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “Sex education is a topic I’ve been obsessed with for a while”—appeared to physically assault a Turning Point USA Frontlines cameraman.  

TPUSA’s Frontlines team confronted Boyles after <a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/09/meet-the-asu-professor-behind-arizonas-drag-queen-story-hour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">learning</a> that he founded the Arizona chapter of Drag Queen Story Hour. Boyles refused to respond to the Frontlines reporter who asked how long he’d had the obsession with sex education and why he felt children should be exposed to drag queens.

The video of Boyles assaulting the cameraman can be viewed below:
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🚨ASU Professor assaults TPUSA cameraman, caught on video 🚨
Our TPUSA Frontlines reporter tried to ask self-professed “sex education obsessed” queer ASU Professor David Boyles, a few simple questions. Refusing to answer, our cameras caught the exact moment Mr. Boyles assaulted,… <a href="https://t.co/YJWBEzSgRx">pic.twitter.com/YJWBEzSgRx</a>

— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA/status/1712691864850317436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Security camera footage shows Boyles initiating physical contact:

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Following the attack of the TPUSA staff member, Boyles posted the following statement on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/david.boyles3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook page</a>: 

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According to<a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/10/asu-professor-who-founded-drag-story-hour-assaults-reporter-claims-hes-victim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> AZ Free News</a>, “Boyles accused the TPUSA men of terrorism for filming him while asking him questions…Boyles also stated on Instagram that he was jumped from behind by the TPUSA reporter.”

AZ Free News also reported, “The <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.azcentral.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ftempe-breaking%2F2023%2F10%2F12%2Fasu-police-investigating-after-queer-faculty-member-assaulted-in-tempe%2F71160761007%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona Republic</a> claimed in its headline that Boyles was targeted in a campus garage for his sexuality. The original headline read: ‘Targeted’: ASU Investigating After Queer Instructor Confronted by Turning Point USA ‘Crew.’”

12 News reports the incident from another angle as seen below:

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Turning Point USA said in a statement:
 Our team fully intends to share this footage with local law enforcement, and if our cameraman decides to press criminal charges against Professor Boyle, we will fully support that decision. @FrontlinesTPUSA
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Updated - October 19, 2023
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/280652" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Boyles</a> is a Professor of English Writing at Arizona State University (ASU). His “areas of expertise” include but are not limited to “Rhetoric,” “Public Communication,” and “Gender Studies.”

<a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/09/meet-the-asu-professor-behind-arizonas-drag-queen-story-hour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AZ Free News</a> featured Boyles in an article titled “Meet the ASU Professor Behind Arizona’s Drag Queen Story Hour.” The source writes:

“Boyles established Drag Queen Story Hour-Arizona in 2019, a chapter of the national Drag Queen Story Hour organization…Boyles has been featured in several ‘The Art of Drag’ events alongside one of his drag queen storytellers…The most recent event occurred on Wednesday [September 20, 2023].  During the <a href="https://youtu.be/RN0Bou3wmxk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presentation</a>, Boyles said that the notion that drag shows are harmful to children was a ‘myth.’ He also said that drag queens have been long considered the leaders of LGBTQ+ communities.”

During “<a href="https://youtu.be/RN0Bou3wmxk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Art of Drag</a>” talk, Boyles claimed Drag Queen Story Hour-Arizona has been “targeted by acts of violence” and “neo-Nazis showing up to disrupt events.” He also presented what he believed to be the beginning of drag culture in America using the newspaper clip featured below:

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On May 16, 2023, Boyles <a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queer-joy-summer-planting-3-promote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a blog</a> - “Queer Joy Summer Planting #3: Promote Radical Queer Sex Education” - in which he stated he was “trying to plant more queer joy in the world.” He also said:

“Sex education is a topic I’ve been obsessed with for a while…In 2021, I did a three-part ‘<a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queering-sex-ed-part-i" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queering Sex Ed</a>’ series on the history of sex education in America and the ways in which it has traditionally erased queer people, as well as the ways in which queer people have resisted this erasure and cared for their communities by creating their own sex ed underground.”

In the “Queer Sex Ed” blog, Boyles also wrote that sex education has been traditionally racist since “black people and immigrants were typically viewed as being sexually promiscuous and aggressive and sex education was designed to keep good white kids from being ‘infected’ by them.”

In <a href="https://lookoutphx.substack.com/p/bomb-threat-made-against-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another publication</a> promoting his Drag Queen Story Hour initiative, Boyles said:

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<a href="https://cronkite.asu.edu/about/faculty-and-leadership/faculty/gilgerbio">Kristin Gilger</a> is the Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism and the interim dean at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University (ASU). She is the author of the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Theres-No-Crying-Newsrooms-Learned/dp/1538121492">“There’s No Crying in Newsrooms”</a> and has served in various roles at ASU since 2002.

Gilger has been mired in controversy since assuming her role as dean this past summer. The previous candidate, Sonya Forte Duhe, was replaced by Gilger after <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/after-tweet-supporting-good-police-officers-arizona-state-revokes-journalism-dean-offer/">her offer was rescinded by the university</a>. After tweeting an image that was considered too positive towards police officers, Duhe was condemned by university faculty for showing “poor judgment.”

Gilger has come under fire after pressuring Rae’Lee Klein, a senior journalism major, and station manager for ASU’s Blaze radio, to resign from her position after <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/this-is-why-jacob-blake-had-a-warrant-out-for-his-arrest/?preview_id=16209831">tweeting and soon deleting a New York Post article</a> detailing the warrant issued for Jacob Blake’s arrest;

“Always more to the story, folks. Please read this article to get to the background of Jacob Blake’s warrant. You’ll be quite disgusted“ 

Blake—who was wanted for sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend—was shot in the back by police after resisting arrest and allegedly reaching for a knife on the floor of his car.

Facing immediate backlash for her tweet, the Board of Directors at the station <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/18/arizona-student-journalist-cancelled-over-jacob-blake-tweet/">voted unanimously to remove her from her position</a>. Later releasing a statement, the board announced that “Blaze Radio firmly believes that Black Lives Matter.”

“The board gave Klein an opportunity to step down under her own will. As of the time of this statement, Klein has not made the decision to resign…In light of this, we do not recognize Rae'Lee Klein as the station manager of Blaze Radio.”  

Gilger has claimed that the University is not moving to remove Klein. In a statement to the New York Post, Gilger stated that Klein is not being targeted by the university for her views.

“Any actions that are unfolding are not punishment for a tweet. I have been clear with Rae’Lee that she would not be removed as station manager of Blaze Radio, a student internet radio station, because of the views she expressed,”  

However, in email exchanges between Klein and Gilger, she did in fact act to pressure Klein to resign, contrary to her statement.

In their exchange (pictured below) Gilger clearly states that Klein remaining in her position, “is not an option,” as she had lost the confidence of the board.

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Although suggesting new roles that Klein may assume, Gilger cites the "Media Guidelines for Student Journalists" to warn her to refrain in the future from posting information “that could call into question your ability to act independently as a journalist.” This seems to contradict Gilger’s claim that Klein was not being targeted by the university for her views.

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At this time, Klein has refused to step down from her role, and officially remains the station’s manager.

Update: In February of 2021, Klein announced that she <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/college-pays-settlement-conservative-student-ousted-manager-role/">has reached a settlement with Gilger</a> over a lawsuit she had filed against ASU several months prior.
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UPDATE: I am happy to announce we've reached a resolution with Arizona State University for events that took place in September. With the support of my attorney, Jack Wilenchik, and countless other individuals, I am proud to have stood up, fought back and eventually, won.
— Rae'Lee Klein (@RaeLeeKlein) <a href="https://twitter.com/RaeLeeKlein/status/1365067995052085254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2021</a></blockquote>
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According to a <a href="https://newsroom.asu.edu/press/statement-latest-update-asu-and-klein-story-0">statement released by ASU</a>, the University agreed to pay Klein a total of $7,040 for "reimbursement of her school fees."

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Updated - June 2021

<a href="https://cisa.asu.edu/node/7955" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asao Inoue</a> is a professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Equity and Inclusion in the College of Integrative Science and Arts at Arizona State University. According to his University biography, Inoue’s <a href="https://cisa.asu.edu/node/7955" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> focuses on “antiracist and social justice theory and practices in writing assessments.”

Prior to his role at Arizona State, Inoue served as the Director of the Writing Center at the University of Washington-Tacoma. As Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/20/college-writing-center-declares-american-grammar-a-racist-unjust-language-structure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>, Inoue <a href="\&quot;https://stjenglish.com/standing-against-racism-in-the-field-of-writing-dr-asao-inoue-uw-tacoma/\&quot;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commissioned</a> an anti-racist poster in an effort to ensure that his staff did not “embrace racist practices.” Inoue maintains that racism is embedded in the English language as well as in society itself, writing that “racism is the normal condition of things.

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According to the text of the poster, recorded by The College Fix, Inoue writes that his goal is to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-writing-center-combats-racist-unjust-language-structures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">help students become more critical of “unjust language structures”</a> in order to succeed in what Inoue claims is a racist society.

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Inoue would later author a book on his beliefs titled, “Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom.” In an excerpt from the book, Inoue declares that he focuses on grading students for their efforts, and not the “quality” of their writing.

“This book focuses on one kind of grading contract, one that calculates final course grades purely by the labor students complete, not by any judgments of the quality of their writing.”

As Daily Wire reports, Inoue writes that his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arizona-state-dean-grading-writing-based-on-quality-is-racist-promotes-white-language-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beliefs and teaching practices are based on “critical-race theory,” or “labor-based theory.”</a>As Breitbart documents, c<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ritical race theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism</a> that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy.

He writes further that grading students only perpetuates white supremacy.

“The traditional purposes and methods used for grading writing turn out to be de facto racist and White supremacist….Grading by a standard, thus, is how White language supremacy is perpetuated in schools”

Inoue also draws an analogy between issuing grades for English and the institution of slavery, stating that grading is a “slave-making mechanism.”

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Inoue believes that even the physical proximity of white people causes racism. In a YouTube video of Inoue speaking before the 2019 Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Inoue <a href="https://youtu.be/brPGTewcDYY?t=994" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states that even the presence of white people “perpetuates racism.</a>”

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Inoue delivered this speech while <a href="https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/about/chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serving as the Conference Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication</a>, which bills itself as the <a href="https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/about/chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">largest professional organization for researching and teaching writing composition</a>. It is the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, which <a href="https://ncte.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasts over 25,000 English and Language Arts teachers as members all over the country</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Inoue for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents May Contact Arizona State University at (855) 278-5080.
Updated - November 10, 2021

<a href="https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/597528" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lorraine Moya Salas</a> is an Instructor in the <a href="https://socialwork.asu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School of Social Work</a> at <a href="https://campus.asu.edu/dohttps://campus.asu.edu/downtown-phoenixwntown-phoenix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona State University - Downtown Phoenix</a>.

During a lecture in one of her courses—titled, “Foundations of Social Work”—Dr. Lorraine can be heard describing the United States as a “white supremacist system,” that was founded for the benefit of white people at the expense of Native Americans and people of color.

In the class—recorded and provided exclusively to the Professor Watchlist team by an anonymous source—Dr. Salas urges her students to confront the “implicit biases” present in themselves and American society. Claiming that stereotypes and prejudices construct implicit bias, she warns that unconscious actions can cause serious harm.

Attempting to provide an example to bolster her claim, Dr. Salas states that implicit bias causes doctors to act as if their black patients are slaves. She proceeds to cite a study that claims doctors give less pain medication to black patients as compared to white ones.

Dr. Salas alleges this is the product of the legacy of slavery; slave owners viewed blacks as subhuman and able to withstand a large amount of pain, so therefore doctors continue to believe that blacks can withstand a large amount of pain. Doctors will therefore prescribe black patients less pain medication.

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Dr. Salas additionally cites a study that claims teachers will call on boys more often than girls in their classrooms. She claims this as proof that teachers think boys answer questions correctly more often than girls.

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Throughout the lecture, Dr. Salas alleges that numerous racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in society are a result of implicit bias. She urges her students, as future social workers, to confront their own implicit biases and assigns an “implicit bias test” for them to complete before the next class.

Dr. Salas additionally claims that institutional racism produces inequality and disparities, attributing it to the legacy of slavery in the Americas. Although acknowledging that all cultures practiced slavery, she claims that no slave trade was enforced along racial lines until the Europeans did so in order to specifically oppress people of color.

Citing slavery, the genocide of Native Americans and discriminatory, Jim Crow laws, Dr. Salas claims that  America was constructed as a “white supremacist culture” for the sole benefit of white people who have maintained their “white power structures” ever since.

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In the accompanying slides, Dr. Salas cites Critical Race Theory to define white supremacy as a, “political or socio-economic system where white people enjoy structural advantage and rights that other racial and ethnic groups do not, both at a collective and an individual level”.

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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.

Dr. Salas had previously published a paper on critical theory, titled, “Critical Theory: Pathway from Dichotomous to Integrated Social Work Practice.” In it, she urges social <a href="https://socialwork.rutgers.edu/file/4791/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">workers to embrace critical theory in order to accomplish social justice</a> “at all levels of practice.”

Dr. Salas further states that while people of color can hold prejudiced views, they cannot be racist as they have no institutional power in a system that values whiteness. She urges white students in the class to be “allies” in order to help minorities access the resources available to them by way of “white privilege.”

The full audio of the lecture is provided below.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Salas prior for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the School of Social Work at Arizona State University - Downtown Phoenix at (602) 496-0800 or at <a href="mailto:social.work@asu.edu">social.work@asu.edu</a>
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Updated - October 26, 2021
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/888543" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katelyn Cooper</a> is an Assistant Professor and Program Director of Biology Education Research for Arizona State University’s  Center for Biology and Society Program . 

In 2019, Cooper founded the “<a href="https://katelyncooper1.wixsite.com/bioedlab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cooper Biology Education Research Lab</a>” because she, as a gay woman, was “worried about biology research not being inclusive enough of “LGBTQ+ people,” according to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/inclusive-lab-for-lgbt-students-created-by-arizona-state-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College Fix. </a>

Cooper is “upset that heterosexual white [men] dominate the biological sciences.” She told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/professor-making-biology-education-inclusive-lgbtq-undergrads-rcna28813" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a> that “The goal isn’t just to make classrooms more inclusive, she explained, but to bring more diversity to a field that has traditionally been dominated by straight white men.” 

Cooper also told NBC News her hopes for collegiate science education: “Cooper said science educators can make their classrooms more inclusive by being openly supportive of LGBTQ students.” According to Cooper, “Educators can, for example, put an inclusivity statement on their syllabus or website, foster safe environments for students to reveal their LGBTQ identities and familiarize themselves with on-campus LGBTQ resources in case students come to them for support.”

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Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="http://www.breannefahs.com/">Breanne Fahs</a>, Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University, believes women have been, more or less, brainwashed by "the patriarchy" and "sexism" to ignore the "liberatory, political, and social implications of fatness." Fahs, who holds a PhD in clinical psychology and women's studies from the University of Michigan, came to this conclusion after she conducted an experiment in which all 20 of her subjects "expressed terror at the thought of suddenly gaining 100 pounds."

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2193787" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby Loebenberg</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her faculty profile says she “teaches a range of classes and seminars on urban spaces and landscape, architecture, cities, and…play and game studies.”

Loebenberg is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was a protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3177657" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby Wheatley</a> teaches Special Topics and Individualized Instruction at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise are “Cultural Anthropology” and “Transnational Migration.”

Wheatley is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2608679">Adam Rigoni</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. He teaches “Individualized Instruction” and “Special Topics.”

Rigoni is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3171591" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex Young</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. His areas of expertise include violence, “Colonial and Post-Colonial theory,” “American and Ethics Studies,” English, and “Critical Theory.”

Young is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2192175" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April Miller</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. Miller teaches Special Topics and Individualized Instruction. Her areas of expertise include “20th Century American Literature,” “Film Studies,” and “Feminist and Queer Theory.”

Loebenberg is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

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Published February 9, 2023
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3022968" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin Fong</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow and the Associate Director of the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University. <a href="https://sst.asu.edu/content/center-work-and-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Center</a> conducts research into election initiatives and organizes protests during times of political crisis.

Fong is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3022603" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christiane Fontinha de Alcantara</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches "Honors Thesis," "Aesthetics and Society," and "Special Topics" with expertise in “Diaspora Studies,” “Digital Humanities,” and “Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Politics.”

Fontinha de Alcantara is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 15, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3333726" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dagmar Van Engen</a> is an Honors Faculty Fellow at the Barrett Writing Center at Arizona State University. As a member of the LGBT community, Van Engen’s preferred pronouns are they/them/their. Van Engen’s areas of expertise include “Gender and Sexuality,” “Feminist and Queer Theory," and "Science Fiction."

Van Engen is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2746835" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Agruss</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. His areas of expertise include “Victorian Literature and Culture,” “Gender and Sexuality,” “Critical Theory,” and “Feminist and Queer Theory.”

Agruss is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/228488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Fette</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. Fette teaches “Individualized Instruction” and “The Human Event.”

Fette is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2471599" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Meloy</a> is an Associate Professor and Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches "Special Topics," "Individualized Instruction," and "Barrett Honors Internship."

Meloy is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/675885" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabriella Soto</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her research interests include “undocumented migration,” “migrant death and disappearance”, and “archaeology.” 

Soto is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3515243" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgette Briggs</a> is a Senior Lecturer and Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches “Special Topics,” “Individualized Instruction,” and “Honors Independent Study.”

Briggs is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3319768" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Irina Levin</a> is an Assistant Teaching Professor, a Jewish Studies Faculty Affiliate, and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her research interests include the former Soviet Union, migration, nationalism, and gender and sexuality.

Levin is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/45849" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jacquie Scott-Lynch</a> is a Teaching Professor and Barrett Honors Faculty Fell at Arizona State University. She teaches "Special Topics" and "Individualized Instruction." Her areas of expertise include Irish studies, world literature, and race and ethnicity.

Scott-Lynch is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/866912" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Brian</a> is a Faculty Chair and a Honors Faculty Fellow at the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include “Feminist and Queer Theory,” “Feminist Ethics,” and “Race and Gender Politics.”

Brian’s <a href="https://jennydyckbrian.com/">website</a> goes in further detail as to what she teaches. For instance, her “Queer Bioethics” seminar course covers the challenges “LGBTQIA” people supposedly face that stem from bioethics and health policy.

The course <a href="https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2187/92008/pdf;jsessionid=CF01C07A3B0D3B971CE00A931AEA8ACD" target="_blank" rel="noopener">syllabus</a> — which  includes the “ethical issue” of “intersex children” gaining access to treatments — says:

“Some of the pressing ethical issues include access to health care and culturally competent mental health resources, treatments for intersex children, standards for blood donation from same-sex sexually active men, access to assisted reproductive technologies and adoption, health insurance coverage, violence (self and other-inflicted) toward gay and transgender youth, exclusion from clinical trials, and so-called ‘psychotherapies’ designed to change sexual orientation.”

The subjects of puberty blockers, gender diversity, transgenderism among adolescents, and gender dysphoria, are covered in the course. (See image of syllabus below):

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Brian is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Updated August 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/50294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Lynch</a> is a Principal Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Lynch teaches “Special Topics,” “Honors Directed Study,” and “Undergraduate Research.”  

Lynch is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/266886" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Foy</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “Honors Thesis,” “Special Topics,” and “Individualized Instruction.” 

Foy is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2746838" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph O’Neil</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University.  He teaches “Special Topics,” “Individualized Instruction,” and “The Human Event.”

O’Neil is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/973834" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laura Jakubczak</a> is an Affiliate Faculty member in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Jakubczak’s areas of expertise include Anthropology, Paleobotany, Climate Change, and Climate Science.

Jakubczak is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 13, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2457458" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laurie Stoff</a> is the Assistant Director of the Office of National Scholarship Advisement and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Stoff’s areas of expertise include “Russian and East European Studies,” “War and Society,” and “Women and Gender Studies.”

Stoff is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 13, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2012013" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lisa Barca</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Barca’s area of expertise includes "Animal Studies," "Environmental Rhetoric and Sustainability," and "Feminism and Gender Studies."

Barca is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 13, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2740395" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mathew Sandoval</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Sandoval’s areas of expertise include “Activism and Social Movements,” “Cultural Studies,” and “Race and Ethnicity.”

Sandoval is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 13, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2454381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matthew Voorhees</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Voorhees teaches “Honors Thesis,” “Individualized Instruction,” and “Special Topics.”

Voorhees is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2830" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-13-at-3.10.03-PM.png" alt="" width="783" height="735" />

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Published February 13, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2746836" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Ostling</a> is Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Ostling’s university biography says he’s a “religious studies scholar focusing on the history,  historiography, and representation of witches and witchcraft."

Ostling is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2009484" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mina Suk</a> is Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches “Freshman Seminary,” “The Human Event,” and “Individualized Instruction.”

Suk is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 13, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1992537" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nilanjana Bhattacharjya</a> is Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include “Ethnomusicology,” “Film and Media Studies,” and “Popular Music.”

Bhattacharjya is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/85114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Schmidt</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “The Human Event,” “History of Ideas,” and “Individualized Instruction.”

Schmidt is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4002947" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phillip Cortes</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “The Human Event,” “Special Topics,” and “Individualized instruction.”

Cortes is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/247692" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Fedock</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include “Feminist Ethics,” “Moral Psychology,” “Feminism and Gender Studies,” and “Race and Gender Politics.”

Fedock is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2450227" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rebecca Soares</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her research interests include “Spiritualism,” “Transatlantic Studies,” and “Print Culture.”

Soares is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/538564" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Mack</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “Honors Thesis,” “The Human Event,” and “Special Topics.”

Mack is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1796349" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Graff</a> is a Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches “Individualized Instruction,” “The Human Event, and “Special Topics.”

Graff is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/786008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taylor Hines</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include critical social theory and critical theory.

Hines is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/291312" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashad Shabazz</a> is an Associate Professor of African American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University (ASU). Shabazz’s university profile says his “academic expertise brings together human geography, black cultural studies, gender studies, and critical prison studies.” He also holds a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California-Santa Cruz.

Shabazz teaches several race-based courses including “<a href="https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2227/88026">AFR301:</a> Race and Racism in the Black Diaspora.” The course description says, 

“Through slave rebellion in Haiti, black notions of freedom, black ideas of ‘being,’ and what on thinker calls ‘black reason,’ this class aims to show that race and racism is more than a tapestry of dominion, but…a reservoir of revolutionary ideas that…transform the world.”

In response to the killing of Tyre Nichols - a black man who was arrested and beaten and later died in the custody of black police officers - Shabazz <a href="https://theconversation.com/black-police-officers-arent-colorblind-theyre-infected-by-the-same-anti-black-bias-as-american-society-and-police-in-general-198721" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article</a> in The Conversation entitled, “Black police officers aren’t colorblind–they’re infected by the same anti-black bias as American society and police in general.”

In the article, Shabazz argued, “Policing in the U.S. has, from its inception, treated Black people as domestic enemies. From slave patrols…to the murder of George Floyd, and now the death of Nichols, law enforcement officers often have viewed black people as what…W.E.B. Du Bois called a ‘problem.’”

He continued, “It’s hard to investigate the minds of the officers who beat Nichols so savagely and say for sure what motivated them. But there is ample research that suggests anti-blackness is a factor in American policing. And black officers, agents of an institutionally racist system, are affected by this.” 

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2426729" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stuart Rhoden</a> is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Arizona State University. He primarily teaches "Mindset Connections" and "Academic Success."

Rhoden is also a City of Scottsdale Human Relations Commission board member. According to the <a href="https://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/boards/human-relations-commission" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Commission’s website</a>, the organization “will advocate and promote all dimensions of diversity.” Board members also commit to making “recommendations on ways to encourage mutual respect and understanding among people to discourage prejudice and discrimination, and to work towards cultural awareness and unity.”

In April 2022, <a href="https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2022/04/14/scottsdales-dei-gurus-accuse-black-dj-of-wearing-blackface/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona Daily Independent</a> featured Rhoden in an article titled, “Scottsdale’s DEI Gurus Accuse Black DJ of Wearing Blackface.” The Daily said, “[Rhoden]...attacked the Scottsdale Unified School District’s Hopi Elementary PTA for hiring Koko Kim Hunter to host a charity auction.” Rhoden said he believed Hunter was wearing blackface during the event. After it was confirmed that Koko is in fact a black man, Rhoden clarified his position with the following social media post:

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1658062" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joyce McCall</a> is an Associate Professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University. McCall’s biography says her research “centers on how race, class and culture impact educational equity in music learning and teaching.”

<a href="https://news.asu.edu/20210721-critical-race-theory-scholar-joins-asu-school-music-dance-and-theatre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ASU News</a> announced McCall’s position in 2021, stating that she was “one of the few scholars whose music education research focuses on race and racism through critical race theory [CRT] and double consciousness theory…”

The article goes on to say that McCall was the only African-American student to earn a doctorate in music education from ASU. McCall also reportedly said that she feels she can offer “an informed perspective based on experience and expertise” that can optimize K-12 learning experiences.

In July 2022, McCall was featured in a <a href="https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/critical-race-theory-music-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Classic FM article</a> titled, “Music professor breaks down [CRT] and why it’s crucial for 21st-century music education.” McCall told the publication:

“‘[CRT] is a tool that was conceptualized and born out of critical legal studies as a means to analyze, critique and to help dismantle racism…Even though…we like to think of ourselves as being more progressive and more innovative…When you look at a university curriculum in America, it gives you a really nice snapshot of Western Europe.’”

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In a book called “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Marginalized-Voices-Music-Education-Talbot/dp/0415788331/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1JZJC8AXCLXQL&amp;keywords=marginalized+voices+in+music+education&amp;qid=1687280532&amp;sprefix=marginalized+voice%2Caps%2C161&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marginalized Voices in Music Education</a>,” McCall authored an introduction with the title, “Speak No Evil: Talking Race as an African American in Music Education.” McCall told “her story” about growing up in a predominantly white school and participating in band class. 

She informs readers of her experiences as an “African American in music education…whose structures and social actors attempted to silence [her] voice.” Although McCall experienced notable success and received much encouragement throughout her pursuits, she wrote: 

“Despite my professors and peers at ASU ensuring me that I was in a safe place, I didn’t believe it because I knew that outside of ASU, society viewed my voice differently and that the profession did not want to hear what I had to say. These were my perceptions…” 
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3016173" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carrie Sampson</a> is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University (ASU). According to Sampson’s faculty profile, “Her research focuses on educational leadership, policy, and equity from three interrelated perspectives—democracy, community advocacy, and politics.” Sampson’s areas of expertise include “Critical Race Theory,” “Feminist Theory,” “Race and Racism in Education,” and “Social Justice in Education.”

Sampson has published several gender- and race-based articles. In 2016, Sampson <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13613324.2020.1842346?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-authored</a> “Engaging (or not) in coalition politics: a case study of Black and Latinx community advocacy toward educational equity.” In the abstract notes, Sampson et al. state: 
“We use ‘Latinx’ as a gender-neutral reference to the people of Latin-American heritage. To not negate gendered experiences, we use Latino/Latina, or Chicano/a when acknowledging individuals or past research identifying with these gendered identities … Although both ‘Black’ and ‘Latinx’ are politicized categories, we recognize the reality of the identities are diverse, intersecting, and fluid.”
In an article titled “Over 1,200 ‘Educators for Palestine’ Sign Open Letter Demanding Ceasefire,” <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/over-a-thousand-educators-for-palestine-sign-open-letter-demanding-ceasefire/#:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20academics%20from%20universities,has%20killed%20more%20than%2011%2C000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Truthout</a> gave a biased account of a statement signed by several university professors, including Sampson. The statement was crafted after the October 7 Hamas attacks against Israel. 

Truthout said, “Hundreds of academics from universities and institutions of higher learning from … across North America have signed on to a joint letter, calling on their governments to demand Israeli ceasefire in Gaza … The signers, calling themselves ‘Educators for Palestine,’ are Palestinian academics and their allies who denounce Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”

The <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BA7ddNwiUF9ns3zJK3t-nrTpn8R4s3ZB_wbZstAo2iY/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter Sampson signed</a> states, in part:
“We have paid careful attention to consistent invocations of children in public officials’ responses to and media portrayals of the attack in Israel on October 7, which took 1400 lives. We mourn this loss of life, and we are also struck by the ways that this concern for children does not extend to the unspeakable number of Palestinian children’s lives taken by Israeli state violence, harmed by apartheid rule, and traumatized by intergenerational experiences of settler colonial dispossession for over [75] years.”
Please send information on Carrie Sampson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4856539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dylan Richard</a> is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. Richard’s faculty profile — which contains the preferred pronouns of “they/them” — says his professional interests include:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Trauma-informed psychotherapy”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Gender- and sexuality-affirmative interventions”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Sex and kink positivity” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“LGBTQ+ workplace concerns”</li>
</ul>
Richard’s Instagram page, “<a href="https://www.instagram.com/the_punk_psychologist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Punk Psychologist</a>,” reveals an apparent obsession with anal sex, “transgenderism,” and multiple sexualities.

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The description for Richard’s 300+ level <a href="https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2241/28325" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biology of Human Sexuality</a> course states: “By the end of the semester you will be able to understand how the following behaviors[sic] in regards to their learning and motivation and the research involved in these discoveries. The list of behaviors includes, but is not limited to:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Sexuality Today”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Gender Development, Gender Roles, and Gender Identity”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Childhood and Adolescent Sexual Development and Education”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Adult Sexual Relationships”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“‘Alternative’ Sex and Polyamory”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Power and Coercion”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Sexual Images and Selling Sex”</li>
</ul>
During ASU’s “<a href="https://eoss.asu.edu/cultural-connections/events/honor-heritage/trans-awareness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trans Awareness Week</a>” celebration in November 2023, Richard offered a session called “<a href="https://asu.campuslabs.com/engage/event/9588130" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lunch with a Queer Psychologist</a>.” The event registration included the following description of Richard:

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Despite <a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4856539">holding</a> multiple psychology degrees and participating in numerous presentations, Richard has only published one article in the field back in 2020. 

Please send tips and information on Dylan Richard to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - April 25, 2024
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<a href="https://news.asu.edu/20240221-law-journalism-and-politics-jemele-hill-deliver-lecture-race-relations-asu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jemele Hill</a> was the featured speaker at the 2024 A. Wade Smith and Elsie Moore Memorial Lecture on Race Relations at Arizona State University (ASU). Hill is primarily known for her incendiary commentary as an American sports journalist on ESPN from 2006 to 2017.  Hill departed from ESPN after posting tweets calling President Donald Trump a “white supremacist” and <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2022/08/05/jemele-hill-opens-up-leaving-espns-conservative-culture/10249552002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaining</a> about “conservative culture” in the workplace.

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Hill also tweeted a statement accusing artist Kid Rock of being racist:

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In an August 2022 article, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2022/08/05/jemele-hill-opens-up-leaving-espns-conservative-culture/10249552002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USA Today published</a> comments from Hill about her departure from ESPN:
 “‘I wasn’t a good fit for the ‘SportsCenter’ culture. Definitely not a good fit for the management that was overseeing the ‘SportsCenter’ at the time. And I got tired. I got really tired of fighting everyday to be myself … It’s the conservative culture at ESPN and so this idea that ESPN is being run by flower children is just a lie. That’s not how it is. It’s the opposite, if anything … 
‘Once critics started seeing my face … then suddenly ESPN is too liberal because what they’re really trying to say is ‘Oh, y’all must be liberal-leaning because you got all these women and all these [b]lack people who are suddenly on my TV everyday.’”
Hill further details the ESPN incident in her book “<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250624376/uphill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Uphill</a>.”

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In January 2024, <a href="https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/jemele-hill-agency-wme-1235887820/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety announced</a>, “Hill has signed with WME for representation in all areas … She is also a co-founder of Lodge Freeway Media. At present, Hill is an executive producer on the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06/01/colin-kaepernick-kneeling-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colin Kaepernick </a>documentary series … which is directed by Spike Lee and will air on ESPN.”

Around the same time, Hill <a href="https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-jemele-hill-race-baiter-fans-slam-ex-espn-analyst-post-criticizing-lions-hc-dan-campbell-resurfaces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went viral again</a> after past tweets resurfaced of her blaming Detroit Lions Coach Don Campbell for the lack of black head coaches in the NFL.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
This is who black coaches are losing opportunities to. <a href="https://t.co/K2o4aZLJ2Q">https://t.co/K2o4aZLJ2Q</a>
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1352377843758600197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In turn, one commenter declared Hill a “race baiter.”

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Please send tips and information on Jemele Hill to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - April 26, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4399703" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shannon Portillo</a> is a Professor and the Director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. According to Portillo’s biography, “Her work helps scholars and practitioners understand how inequities are institutionalized in public organizations … [She also] served as co-chair of Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s Commission on Racial Equity and Justice.”

Portillo’s <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Kw7ABu8AAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published works</a> include topics such as “Social Equity,” “Law &amp; Society,” and “Street-Level Bureaucracy.” She co-authored a paper entitled “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G6j6mAfv3ycBqEtPvz4qR70Tjk8GBjgH/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Advancing Social Equity in the Minnowbrook Tradition</a>,” which discussed the “goals of valuing social equity and using it as a guide in managing public programs.” 

In her work, Portillo refers to a meeting called Minnowbrook I that took place following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. According to the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G6j6mAfv3ycBqEtPvz4qR70Tjk8GBjgH/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnowbrook 50 Social Equity Manifesto</a>, “[A] group of public administration scholars met to reflect on the implications of the social and environmental circumstances for [their] discipline … [Their] call to action … focused on ways to intersect and integrate social equity in the research, teaching, and practice of public administration.”
In the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G6j6mAfv3ycBqEtPvz4qR70Tjk8GBjgH/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnowbrook paper,</a> Portillo et al. wrote:
“In 40 years since Minnowbrook I, the concern for social equity has grown to the point where it now occupies a firm place within the academy … However, despite its growth and general acceptance as a core area of research and concern, evidence of gross societal inequities in the United States and the global community abound.”
Portillo was featured in the <a href="https://news.ku.edu/news/article/2022/02/17/public-administration-should-consider-effects-whiteness-masculinity-well-representation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KU News article</a> titled “Public administration should consider effects of whiteness, masculinity as well as presentation, researchers say,” where she offered her perspective on gender and racial discrimination in the industry.

Portillo states that during President Woodrow Wilson’s term, a push for segregation led to discrimination and the “normalization of white men in bureaucratic roles.” Any truth in this statement is neutralized by her contradictory claim that “[w]hite men have been in charge pretty much forever,” and, at the same time, “[w]e need more empirical evidence” to know whether white men in leadership have helped or harmed professional communities.

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Please send tips, updates, and information on Shannon Portillo to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - May 24, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4219914" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lydia HaRim Ahn</a> is an Assistant Professor in Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University. According to her university profile, Ahn’s academic interests include the following:

“1) examining the detrimental effects of racism and oppression on marginalized communities with an emphasis on within group differences, 2) developmental protective and risk factors between racism and health outcomes with a focus on ethnic-racial socialization and parenting, and 3) enhancing positive psychological outcomes and change through psychotherapy, evidence-based videos, and prevention and intervention programming.” 
In February, Ahn and Thomas P. Le co-wrote an <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Asian American Women’s Racial Dating Preferences: An Investigation of Internalized Racism, Resistance and Empowerment against Racism, and Desire for Status.” In the abstract for the article, the authors state their purpose for writing it: 
“To further understand racialized desire among this underrepresented population, the present study examined the extent to which three sociocultural factors (i.e., internalized racism, resistance and empowerment against racism, and desire for status) were associated with two attraction outcome variables (i.e., dating preferences, physical attraction) across four racial categories of men: Asian men, Black men, Latino men, and White men.” 
They claim the factors of “internalized racism, resistance and empowerment against racism, and desire for status” have caused Asian American women to have a “stronger dating preference toward White men and weaker dating preference and physical attraction to Asian men.”  

In a section of the article titled “Internalized Racism,” the authors address their research on male dating preferences based on race. Focusing on Asian American women, the authors state that the demographic faces “gendered racial microaggressions and model minority stereotypes that produce internalized racism.” They then focus on the differences between Asian and white men with regard to Asian women and dating: 
“Asian American women have reported a desire to date White men for the sake of economic security, as well as to assimilate into White American society, even if their White male partners engaged in racial fetishization of Asian women (Nemoto, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR50" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2006</a>). This preference may promote stereotypes of Asian American men as undesirable and perpetually foreign (Wong &amp; McCullough, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR69" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021</a>) and Black and Latino men as inferior to white men (Cascalheira &amp; Smith, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020</a>). Furthermore, Asian American women face gendered racism (Gamst et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR15" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2023</a>), or experiences of discrimination that are based upon the intersections of their race and gender, which contributes to their disempowerment and negative self-worth within the United States (Ahn et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022</a>).”
The authors conclude their study:
“Overall, our findings highlight how Asian American women’s romantic and intimate desires may be shaped by internalized racism, resistance and empowerment, and desire for social status. Asian American women face gendered racial microaggressions and model minority stereotypes that produce internalized racism (Ahn et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022</a>; Juang et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018</a>; Wei et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR68" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2008</a>).”
Published - June 3, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/202508" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Lober</a> is a Clinical Associate Professor at Arizona State University. Lober also serves as the director of ASU’s Academy of Lactation Programs and the clinical research director at Banner University Medical Center–Phoenix.

During an ASU presentation in March 2023, Lober pointed out that part of the Lactation Programs vision is to “normalize breastfeeding and human milk feeding as an act of social justice and health promotion.”

View the presentation below.

<iframe title="Edson College Speakers Bureau - Angela Lober" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g9TnlMr0cAI" width="1039" height="584" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

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On August 30, 2024, Lober was featured in The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-s-hates-women-faces-future-of-cannibalism-forced-breeding-camps-asu-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> entitled “U.S. ‘hates women,’ faces future of cannibalism, ‘forced breeding campus’: ASU event.” Lober partnered with ASU Professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/jennyirish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jenny Irish</a> who <a href="https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/jenny-irishs-hatch-speculative-future-reproductive-rights?eventDate=2024-08-28&amp;id=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organized an event</a> to discuss abortion.

According to The Fix, “Lober opened the one-hour moderated discussion by stating she ‘got into this space because the United States hates women and everything the female body does.’” 

The School Board Watchlist did not uncover the original audio from the event. However, <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/cannibalism-forced-breeding-professors-fearmonger-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Live Action </a>pointed out:
“Lober also argued that she is discouraging her children from having children, and said the decline in birth rates is a good thing—because the planet is overpopulated. Yet, ironically, the ASU <a href="https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/jenny-irishs-hatch-speculative-future-reproductive-rights?eventDate=2024-08-28&amp;id=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">events page</a> states that Lober’s ‘research is focused on establishing lactation and breastfeeding as a public health imperative’ and that she ‘is dedicated to working for a better world for families’...How, exactly does not create a better world for families or better health for children by encouraging abortion?”
Conservative lawyer and journalist, Jonathan Turley, <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2024/09/01/the-united-states-hates-women-asu-event-offers-dystopian-anti-capitalist-vision-of-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mentioned</a> Lober in an article titled “‘The United States Hates Women’: ASU Event Offer Dystopian, Anti-Capitalist Vision of America.” Reflecting on Lober’s resolution for a future America without abortion, Turley said she called for the audience “to help ‘dismantle capitalism’ and ‘elect a female president.’”

Since the event, Lober has not commented publicly on her role in the conversation with Irish. Based on mainstream media reactions, both professors are committed to espousing anti-American and anti-family values. 
Please send tips and information on Professor Angela Lober to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - September 9, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1903524" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jenny Irish</a> is a Professor of English at Arizona State University.

In a 2023 <a href="https://www.kjzz.org/2024-04-30/content-1878588-stephen-king-seen-just-horror-author-asu-professor-argues-hes-much-more" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with 91.5 KJZZ Phoenix, Irish discussed her thoughts on horror author Stephen King, whose books are currently being <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/stephen-king-florida-book-ban-viral-post-1947396" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed from school libraries</a> in Florida. The KJZZ host asked Irish to comment on her “associations” with the King novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Carrie-Stephen-King/dp/1984898108/ref=asc_df_1984898108/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=692875362841&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=14364719003284224040&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9061155&amp;hvtargid=pla-2281435178818&amp;psc=1&amp;mcid=d9f4354e402c38979d3d64dbfc2a5893&amp;hvocijid=14364719003284224040-1984898108-&amp;hvexpln=73" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carrie</a>”—the story of a high school outcast with telekinetic powers who eventually murders her bullying classmates by setting the town on fire. 

Irish responded to the interviewer stating:
“‘Carrie’ is amazing in the fact that [it] was written 50 years ago, but there’s so much about it that feels pretty tragically contemporary. If Carrie White had had access to a decent sex ed class, the town of Chamberlain, Maine, would still be standing…[I]t’s not hard to think about that in the midst I feel of our current kind of sociopolitical moment, where there’s such an assault on bodily autonomy and considerations of the rights of people to define their own identity and their own bodies and their relationships to them.”
On August 30, 2024, Irish was featured in The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-s-hates-women-faces-future-of-cannibalism-forced-breeding-camps-asu-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> entitled “U.S. ‘hates women,’ faces future of cannibalism, ‘forced breeding campus’: ASU event.” In <a href="https://lincolncenter.asu.edu/wb-workshop-HATCH" target="_blank" rel="noopener">partnership</a> with ASU Professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/angelalober" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Lober</a>, Irish <a href="https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/jenny-irishs-hatch-speculative-future-reproductive-rights?eventDate=2024-08-28&amp;id=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted an event</a> centered on releasing her new book “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hatch/9sHtEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover">Hatch</a>,” a collection of prose poems exploring the future of the human race surviving through AI.

According to <a href="https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810146969/hatch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northwestern University Press</a>:
“The prose poems in Jenny Irish’s newest collection, Hatch, trace the consciousness of an artificial womb that must confront the role she has played in the continuation of the dying of the human species. This apocalyptic vision engages with the most pressing concerns of this contemporary sociopolitical moment: reproductive rights, climate crises, and mass extinction; gender and racial bias in healthcare technology…and the possibilities and dangers of artificial intelligence.”
In the following excerpt, Irish appears to describe an abortion from the artificial womb’s perspective.

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The Professor Watchlist did not recover any original video of the “Hatch” presentation. However, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-s-hates-women-faces-future-of-cannibalism-forced-breeding-camps-asu-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> wrote, “Irish also talked about transgenderism and said there is an ‘all-out assault on the trans community and people’s ability to self-identify.’ It is disgusting, immoral, and wrong,’ she said.”

Please send tips and information on Professor Jenny Irish to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - September 9, 2024

*RECOMMENDED PROFESSOR*
<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/843137" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Owen Anderson</a> is a Professor in the School of Humanities at Arizona State University. He teaches courses focused on philosophy, morality, and religion. As a Christian in a secular institution, Dr. Anderson has been subjected to discrimination and exclusion by the college. 

On September 20, 2024, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/christian-professors-intro-to-christianity-class-torpedoed-at-asu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix featured</a> Anderson in an article titled “Christian professor’s ‘Intro to Christianity’ class torpedoed at ASU.” Quoting Dr. Anderson’s phone interview, the Fix wrote:
“If a class does not have a general education designation, most students won’t enroll and his college will be hesitant to offer it because it won’t attract many students.” 
Dr. Anderson’s Intro to Christianity class was canceled because he said ASU “[doesn’t] want it taught from a Christian perspective.” He provided The Fix with a member from ASU <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/juliasarreal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor Julia Sarreal</a> who said, “The syllabus reflects a Christian way of teaching Christianity, which is to say the course does not adequately provide the kids of critical, reflective, disciplinary skills that students need.”

Dr. Anderson’s rebuttal to Sarreal’s and other’s concerns about the course can be read <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ONMoLSpqoWzMlY84nc4fThVk7RKCCNPHZZwnJKUPnS8/edit">here</a>. A screenshot of the learning objectives can be viewed below. A detailed view of course requirements can be read <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/771107095/REL-270-Introduction-to-Christianity-ASU-Dr-Owen-Anderson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

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After being canceled by ASU, Dr. Anderson posted a response on social media:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Christian scholars and anyone who cares about academic freedom, I need your help. Please help me share widely to expose what is going on at ASU. <a href="https://twitter.com/HdxAcademy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HdxAcademy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CollegeFix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CollegeFix</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prageru?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@prageru</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/megbasham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@megbasham</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ConceptualJames</a> <a href="https://t.co/yDPIqyYl5i">pic.twitter.com/yDPIqyYl5i</a>
— Dr Owen Anderson (@dr_owenanderson) <a href="https://twitter.com/dr_owenanderson/status/1831925907613007950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In an <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/asus-dr-owen-anderson-warns-of-new-policies-threatening-academic-freedom">interview with Turning Point USA</a>, Dr. Anderson stated that he, and his colleagues, were asked to “decolonize” their course syllabi. He described decolonization according to ASU’s definition:
“Decolonize means you become aware of any Western, and especially Christian, influences in your syllabus, and you replace those with what they would call ‘Indigenous people’s perspectives.’ Decolonizing comes out of a communist philosophy…It’s a political philosophy that’s being adopted by ASU to push on the students.”
During the interview, Dr. Anderson also said since he teaches world religions and philosophies, he believes his courses are culturally diverse, therefore, his lesson plans don’t need to be revised.

On March 19, 2024, Dr. Anderson <a href="https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Complaint-Final-with-exhibits.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a complaint</a> with the Arizona Board of Regents after ASU mandated diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training for faculty and staff members. In <a href="https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/case/dismantling-asus-discriminatory-dei-regime/">partnership</a> with the Goldwater Institute, he brought the lawsuit to prohibit the college from using race, ethnicity, or sex—which goes against state and federal laws—to hire and retain employees.

In a June 18 <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/06/my-university-required-dei-training-im-suing/">opinion editorial</a> titled “My University Required DEI Training. I’m Suing,” Dr. Anderson wrote:
“I’m in favor of each of those terms: Diversity…equity…and inclusion…are undoubtedly good things. But when I began the mandatory training, I found something troubling: It engaged in race blaming, warning of the supposed ‘problem’ of whiteness and encouraged judgment of people based on their skin color. I could not, in good conscience, continue such racist training.”
Dr. Anderson <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/asus-dr-owen-anderson-warns-of-new-policies-threatening-academic-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> TPUSA that he believes these cultural shifts occurred as a result of ASU’s evolving definition of “multiculturalism,” which he also said, “caused respect for Christians to deteriorate on campus.” 

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Send feedback on this post to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Dr. Anderson presents a balanced perspective in the classroom and encourages students to think objectively. He upholds constitutional, conservative values despite pressure and ostracism from fellow ASU faculty and administrators. 
The Professor Watchlist considers Dr. Anderson a good professor. 
Published - September 23, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1429800" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julia Sarreal</a> is a Professor in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. Sarreal’s research interests include Latin American Studies, Food, Drugs, and Capitalism. Her top area of expertise is “Consumerism.”

On September 20, 2024, Sarreal was featured in The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/christian-professors-intro-to-christianity-class-torpedoed-at-asu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Christian professor’s ‘Intro to Christianity’ class torpedoed at ASU.” The piece covers the cancelation of <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/drowenanderson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Dr. Owen Anderson’s</a> religious studies course. 

After the college rejected his class, it was revealed that Sarreal objected to the premise of Christianity being taught on campus. The Fix recorded her comments:

“The <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/771107095/REL-270-Introduction-to-Christianity-ASU-Dr-Owen-Anderson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">syllabus</a> reflects a Christian way of teaching Christianity, which is to say the course does not adequately provide the kinds of critical, reflective, disciplinary skills that students need to have in order to study religious traditions.”

“Furthermore, the focus on ‘Western Civilization’ is problematic. It is true that Christianity has been ‘influential’ in European history, it has also been deeply influential elsewhere in ways that are completely ignored in the syllabus.” 

Based on the feedback Sarreal received from Dr. Anderson, it appears she either did not read the syllabus or chose to interpret the lesson plans through an objectionable lens. Sarreal specifically described one of the modules as being “focused on ‘the’ biblical worldview” and called this a “fraught oversimplification.”

Dr. Anderson’s rebuttal to Sarreal’s and other’s concerns about the course can be read <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ONMoLSpqoWzMlY84nc4fThVk7RKCCNPHZZwnJKUPnS8/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Please send tips, updates, and information on Julia Sarreal to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - September 25, 2024

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3924315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ruben Espinosa</a> is Professor of English and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University (ASU). According to his faculty profile, Espinosa’s studies are chiefly focused on the work of William Shakespeare. 

On September 16, 2024, ASU’s <a href="https://humanitiesinstitute.asu.edu/events" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Humanities Institute</a> hosted a panel with Espinosa and Professor Curtis Austin on cultural appropriation concerning the plays of Shakespeare. The <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/arizona-state-u-scholars-condemn-white-ownership-of-shakespeare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">event</a> is described by the university as such: 
“What constitutes cultural appropriation, and when is it unethical? Should we adopt voices beyond our own, and if so then what factors must be weighed beforehand?”
“Pressing on hard research questions may lead to ethical dilemmas of how to speak in relation to another. This panel will discuss what it means to think, research, and write across cultures and ways of being.”  
In an audio recording of a l<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/arizona-state-u-scholars-condemn-white-ownership-of-shakespeare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ecture</a> obtained by the College Fix, Espinosa connected the alleged “white exceptionalism” of January 6 rioters U.S. Capitol protesters to Shakespeare. These two are both claimed to be symbols of “white exceptionalism” and “racial hierarchy.” The professor stated:

“It kind of has this origin in anti-immigrant sentiments, right, all the way to January 6th, when we think about that white exceptionalism, and this notion of a kind of white ownership of Shakespeare.”
Espinosa believes that “Shakespeare is the epitome or the marker of white exceptionalism” and sits at the top of the “racial hierarchy.” Thereby, he attached the poet to “whiteness” exclusively over humanity independent of race. 

In 2021, Espinosa published a book titled “<a href="https://www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-on-the-Shades-of-Racism/Espinosa/p/book/9780367183004">Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism</a>.” The publisher’s description states:
“Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism examines Shakespeare in relation to ongoing conversations that interrogate the vulnerability of Black and brown people amid oppressive structures that aim to devalue their worth. By focusing on the way these individuals are racialized, politicized, policed, and often violated in our contemporary world, it casts light on dimensions of Shakespeare’s work that afford us a better understanding of our ethical responsibilities in the face of such brutal racism.”
Please send information and tips on Ruben Espinosa to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - September 30, 2024

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Dr. Neal Lester is a professor of African American Studies at Arizona State University.

As a guest on Dr. Phil, he stated “I put [cultural appropriation] on the same level of white supremacy, because white supremacy [is] intersectional.” According to Dr. Lester, “when we’re putting on someone else’s culture, that is somebody else’s identity.” He continued by stating that “<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-rubin-report/dr-phil-dr-lester-white-supremacy?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white supremacy is embedded in everything,</a> in everything, and cultural appropriation is about that.”

Dr. Lester also <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=20384" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked white people</a> with dreadlocks and afros by calling their appearance a “performance.” He stated, “you do that because it’s edgy, it’s cool, but ultimately because it’s not you.” According to Dr. Lester, “you’re getting some type of cultural capital from that.”

Dr. Lester also wrote an article titled No, I’m not okay in which he discusses <a href="https://www.ahwatukee.com/article_5290bff0-a59e-11ea-b358-cbbc878a7ac0.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racism in America.</a> He states to his “white friends who ask if I am okay, the answer is, ‘No, I am not okay.’” He continues by claiming that asking that question during the Covid-19 pandemic which “is disproportionately killing black and brown people in the US, and while experiencing the trauma resulting from the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd is not good.” He also states that “Dealing with American racism in all of its insidious forms, police brutality, human loss and suffering cannot be captured in sound bites.”

In the same article, he continues, “I am also not okay when I see so many Facebook posts and threads now of alleged white allies asking black folks to give them a blueprint of how and where to direct their anger and outrage.” He then dismisses complaints about the 2020 riots that saw property destroyed across the United States. He says “While I do not legitimize violence as a principle, I ask that concerned individuals - black and white - measure the impact of destroying property as compared to killing people.” He states that “Property can be insured and rebuilt. Dead bodies cannot be resurrected with a life insurance policy.”

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Barry Mehler is a professor at <a href="https://www.ferris.edu/?pk_vid=1b76d13b0ef4fef4164365037299c15e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ferris State University</a> in Big Rapids, Michigan. During one of his online classes, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrOzY86YcEM&amp;ab_channel=BarryMehler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Mehler recorded himself cursing at the university administration and castigating his students as “vectors of disease.”</a>
The class itself was uploaded by Barry Mehler to his personal Youtube account. When the video begins, Dr. Mehler is seen wearing a face shield and face mask while recording in an empty room.
Dr. Mehler begins his lecture by warning that the air we breathe is dangerous, claiming that this is why “experts” continue to advise wearing masks at all times. Continuing, he states that our civilization is collapsing and that our species is going extinct.
After welcoming students to the class, Dr. Mehler launches into a profanity-laced polemic describing how he is “beholden to no c*ck-sucker” and no one in the university administration will tell him how to teach his class. He proceeds to describe his students as “vectors of disease” and states that he “no longer gives a flying f*ck,” as he is retiring at the end of the year.
Dr. Mehler further adds that students have no control over their grades in class—no matter how hard they work—admitting he assigns grades on the first day at random.
Toward the end of the lecture, Dr. Mehler berates his students, again referring to them as diseased. Beginning to yell, Dr. Mehler accuses his class of being “selfish kids” who “don’t give a sh*t” if grandpa lives or dies.” He urges students not to attend class as they risk infecting him and spreading COVID-19.
The full lecture—which has garnered upwards of half-a-million views as of publication—is available to view in full below:
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In a statement to WDIV-TV, Ferris State University President, <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/2022/01/14/michigan-professor-on-leave-after-bizarre-video-about-grades/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Eisler, said he was “shocked and appalled” at the “profane, offensive, and disturbing” lecture</a>, and that its contents in no way reflect the university or its values.
Soon after publishing the video, the university announced that Dr. Mehler was placed on leave while they investigate his conduct. He is <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=18887" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently suing the school for allegedly violating his First Amendment Rights</a>.
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Students and Parents may contact Ferris State University at (231) 591-2000.
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Barry Mehler is a professor at <a href="https://www.ferris.edu/?pk_vid=1b76d13b0ef4fef4164365037299c15e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ferris State University</a> in Big Rapids, Michigan. During one of his online classes, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrOzY86YcEM&amp;ab_channel=BarryMehler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Mehler recorded himself cursing at the university administration and castigating his students as “vectors of disease.”</a>

The class itself was uploaded by Barry Mehler to his personal Youtube account. When the video begins, Dr. Mehler is seen wearing a face shield and face mask while recording in an empty room.

Dr. Mehler begins his lecture by warning that the air we breathe is dangerous, claiming that this is why “experts” continue to advise wearing masks at all times. Continuing, he states that our civilization is collapsing and that our species is going extinct.

After welcoming students to the class, Dr. Mehler launches into a profanity-laced polemic describing how he is “beholden to no c*ck-sucker” and no one in the university administration will tell him how to teach his class. He proceeds to describe his students as “vectors of disease” and states that he “no longer gives a flying f*ck,” as he is retiring at the end of the year.

Dr. Mehler further adds that students have no control over their grades in class—no matter how hard they work—admitting he assigns grades on the first day at random.

Toward the end of the lecture, Dr. Mehler berates his students, again referring to them as diseased. Beginning to yell, Dr. Mehler accuses his class of being “selfish kids” who “don’t give a sh*t” if grandpa lives or dies.” He urges students not to attend class as they risk infecting him and spreading COVID-19.

The full lecture—which has garnered upwards of half-a-million views as of publication—is available to view in full below:

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In a statement to WDIV-TV, Ferris State University President, <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/2022/01/14/michigan-professor-on-leave-after-bizarre-video-about-grades/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Eisler, said he was “shocked and appalled” at the “profane, offensive, and disturbing” lecture</a>, and that its contents in no way reflect the university or its values.

Soon after publishing the video, the university announced that Dr. Mehler was placed on leave while they investigate his conduct. He is <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=18887" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently suing the school for allegedly violating his First Amendment Rights</a>.

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Students and Parents may contact Ferris State University at (231) 591-2000.
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Updated - January 31st, 2022

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<a href="https://www.rcc.edu/catalog/2021-2022/h_faculty_and_administration/b_faculty.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Asatar Bair</a> is an Associate Professor of Economics at <a href="https://www.rcc.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riverside City College</a>. A self-identified communist, Dr. Bair frequently praises dictators like Stalin and Mao.
In a thread on Twitter, Dr. Bair extols Joseph Stalin as “<a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408953211361239042" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of the great leaders of the 20th century.</a>” While acknowledging he was, “not a saint,” he describes the Soviet Dictator as a “revolutionary” and a, “great contributor to Marxist theory.”
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People say I &#8216;idolize&#8217; Stalin. Not true, I hold a fair and balanced view. The man was neither savior nor saint, but he was, at once, a very successful revolutionary, a great contributor to Marxist theory, and said to be a great listener and collaborator during discussions
— Dr. Asatar Bair (@asatarbair) <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Stalin</a> ruled the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. His authoritarian reign led to the deaths of <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20-40 million people through execution, starvation, and deportation</a>. Political dissidents, academics, artists, and even members of the Communist Party were the targets of mass arrests and forced disappearances.
<a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Bair’s</a> Twitter account further hosts praise for the <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USSR</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Communism</a>, and even <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denials of the Uyghur genocide</a>.
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My new friends, I defend Stalin because of the results achieved by Soviet socialism for the masses of ordinary working people, including a massive increase in life expectancy (one of history&#8217;s most rapid in fact), dramatic decreases in infant mortality, and improved health
— Dr. Asatar Bair (@asatarbair) <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
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I share this not to brag, but just to show that communism is the dream of a better life that will not die, and we all instinctively know that capitalism is a brutal, bankrupt system, even if we don&#8217;t know all the details of what happened in the USSR
— Dr. Asatar Bair (@asatarbair) <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
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As one of the world&#8217;s foremost purveyors of propaganda, the NY Times would certainly know it when it sees it, eh? The evidence for a &#8216;Uyghur genocide&#8217; is completely lacking <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/urBYluYJVy</a>
— Dr. Asatar Bair (@asatarbair) <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 23, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Bair has also tweeted his support for the Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong, describing him as “<a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of the greatest revolutionary leaders of all time</a>.”
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I&#8217;m a huge fan of Mao lol. One of the greatest revolutionary leaders of all time
— Dr. Asatar Bair (@asatarbair) <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 23, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mao Zedong</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://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> An estimated 65 million Chinese perished from his regime</a>. Mao&#8217;s campaign known as the “Great Leap Forward” <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caused an estimated 40 million to die from starvation and exhaustion in labor camps alone</a>.
Despite his human rights atrocities, Dr. Bair praises Mao’s policies in lectures hosted on his <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Youtube page</a>. In a video titled “Economic History and Development of Maoist China,” Dr. Bair <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lauds the Great Leap Forward as a “great economic feat</a>.” He claims that Mao’s policies actually improved the quality of life in China. At one point, he makes the extraordinary claim that no evidence exists to implicate Mao in the death of millions.
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Dr. Bair’s Youtube page hosts additional lectures in which he further defends Stalin and the Soviet Union. In a video titled “Introduction to Political Economy: Economic History of the USSR”, Dr. Bair claims that <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">socialism in the USSR improved the quality of life “in every way imaginable.</a>”
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At one point, he claims the Soviets never had to rely on slave labor to achieve this–which Bair accuses other free-market, Western nations of doing.
Despite Dr. Bair’s claim, forced labor was integral to the existence of the Soviet Union. At one point, as much as <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15 percent of the Soviet population was imprisoned</a> in “gulags” and branded as “class enemies.” Prisoners were exploited as slave labor and were often worked to death in sub-zero, in-humane conditions. In one of the most notorious cases, <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tens of thousands died building the White-Sea Canal</a>—in the middle of the Russian winter—only for it to be largely impassable.
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Bair for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riverside City College</a> at (951) 222-8000. 
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<a href="https://www.rcc.edu/catalog/2021-2022/h_faculty_and_administration/b_faculty.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Asatar Bair</a> is an Associate Professor of Economics at <a href="https://www.rcc.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riverside City College</a>. A self-identified communist, Dr. Bair frequently praises dictators like Stalin and Mao.

In a thread on Twitter, Dr. Bair extols Joseph Stalin as “<a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408953211361239042" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of the great leaders of the 20th century.</a>” While acknowledging he was, “not a saint,” he describes the Soviet Dictator as a “revolutionary” and a, “great contributor to Marxist theory.”
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People say I 'idolize' Stalin. Not true, I hold a fair and balanced view. The man was neither savior nor saint, but he was, at once, a very successful revolutionary, a great contributor to Marxist theory, and said to be a great listener and collaborator during discussions
— Dr. Asatar Bair (@asatarbair) <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Stalin</a> ruled the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. His authoritarian reign led to the deaths of <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20-40 million people through execution, starvation, and deportation</a>. Political dissidents, academics, artists, and even members of the Communist Party were the targets of mass arrests and forced disappearances.

<a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Bair’s</a> Twitter account further hosts praise for the <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USSR</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Communism</a>, and even <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denials of the Uyghur genocide</a>.
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My new friends, I defend Stalin because of the results achieved by Soviet socialism for the masses of ordinary working people, including a massive increase in life expectancy (one of history's most rapid in fact), dramatic decreases in infant mortality, and improved health
— Dr. Asatar Bair (@asatarbair) <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
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I share this not to brag, but just to show that communism is the dream of a better life that will not die, and we all instinctively know that capitalism is a brutal, bankrupt system, even if we don't know all the details of what happened in the USSR
— Dr. Asatar Bair (@asatarbair) <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
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As one of the world's foremost purveyors of propaganda, the NY Times would certainly know it when it sees it, eh? The evidence for a 'Uyghur genocide' is completely lacking <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/urBYluYJVy</a>
— Dr. Asatar Bair (@asatarbair) <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 23, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Bair has also tweeted his support for the Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong, describing him as “<a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of the greatest revolutionary leaders of all time</a>.”
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I'm a huge fan of Mao lol. One of the greatest revolutionary leaders of all time
— Dr. Asatar Bair (@asatarbair) <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 23, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mao Zedong</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://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> An estimated 65 million Chinese perished from his regime</a>. Mao's campaign known as the “Great Leap Forward” <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caused an estimated 40 million to die from starvation and exhaustion in labor camps alone</a>.

Despite his human rights atrocities, Dr. Bair praises Mao’s policies in lectures hosted on his <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Youtube page</a>. In a video titled “Economic History and Development of Maoist China,” Dr. Bair <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lauds the Great Leap Forward as a “great economic feat</a>.” He claims that Mao’s policies actually improved the quality of life in China. At one point, he makes the extraordinary claim that no evidence exists to implicate Mao in the death of millions.

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Dr. Bair’s Youtube page hosts additional lectures in which he further defends Stalin and the Soviet Union. In a video titled “Introduction to Political Economy: Economic History of the USSR”, Dr. Bair claims that <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">socialism in the USSR improved the quality of life “in every way imaginable.</a>”

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At one point, he claims the Soviets never had to rely on slave labor to achieve this–which Bair accuses other free-market, Western nations of doing.

Despite Dr. Bair’s claim, forced labor was integral to the existence of the Soviet Union. At one point, as much as <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15 percent of the Soviet population was imprisoned</a> in “gulags” and branded as “class enemies.” Prisoners were exploited as slave labor and were often worked to death in sub-zero, in-humane conditions. In one of the most notorious cases, <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tens of thousands died building the White-Sea Canal</a>—in the middle of the Russian winter—only for it to be largely impassable.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Bair for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact <a href="https://twitter.com/asatarbair/status/1408952378691256320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riverside City College</a> at (951) 222-8000. 
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<a href="https://sllc.umd.edu/directory/tatiana-chi-miranda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tatiana Chi-Miranda</a> is a Ph.D. Student and Spanish teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. 
During an interview with <a href="https://dbknews.com/2022/11/21/umd-spanish-professors-add-anti-racism-curriculum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Diamondback</a>, Chi-Miranda explained how she incorporates anti-racism into her curriculum. Although her Spanish language classes focus on grammar and composition, she admitted the modules are used to discuss racism and phobias:  
“[This] is a great introduction for the anti-racism module because it allows one to establish a personal connection to the text, but also it allows them to get a critical approach to it. And it opens doors for them to have a critical attitude and cultural approach to it,” 
Chi-Miranda provided one module to The Diamondback in which her students pretend to dislike diversity. She said this was an example of xenophobia  and recited the following line:  
“I don’t want you to make friends with other cultures nor do I want you to enjoy the diversity of the world.” 
A sophomore who was interviewed by Diamondback  praised the initiative, stating that American schools have a “whitewashed curriculum:” 
“I think that’s really important because America has a tendency to leave out certain parts of history in their textbooks and teach a very whitewashed curriculum, so it is really important that Maryland and these professors are acknowledging that we have kind of neglected several important parts of history.”
Chi-Miranda’s comments were delivered in an article featuring six Spanish professors who also integrated anti-racist themes into their courses. One professor, Jose Magro, stated this is part of an attempt to put an end to the “colonized learning” that takes place at the university. 
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<a href="https://wgss.columbian.gwu.edu/ashwini-tambe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ashwini Tambe</a> is a Professor of History at George Washington University. Her faculty profile says, “Dr. Tambe is a scholar of transnational South Asian history who focuses on the relationship between law, gender, and sexuality. She is also the Editorial Director of <a href="https://www.feministstudies.org/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Feminist Studies</a>, the oldest journal of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship in the United States.”

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Girlhood-India-Transnational-Maturity-ebook/dp/B081JQQLKX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1XWJWVVP9KFFJ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.kgw37bJcX_xfYQjs5Tv8kg.CC4PMau89w_XcZ-qvCr4dEVPlZgjVc02HRvroaj47Z4&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=defining+girlhood+in+india&amp;qid=1722029284&amp;sprefix=defining+girlhood+in+india%2Caps%2C119&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B081JQQLKX&amp;revisionId=59439648&amp;format=3&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In her book</a> titled “Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws,” Tambe answers the question, “At what age do girls gain the maturity to make sexual choices.” She claimed the book “focuses on legal standards for sexual maturity for girls in India and explores how and why these standards changed over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.” (The age of consensual sex in India is 18.)

In the introduction, she said:
“Strong views dictate the ages at which one can consent to sexual activity, or marry, or transact in sexual services … Sexual age laws are complex matters largely because they are meant to signal social standards for sexual maturity. Age is usually a blunt metric for measuring such maturity … Like legal standards on other sexual practices, such as same-gender marriage and widow remarriage, the age of marriage has come to serve as an index of moral hierarchies among nations.” 
In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCNIVtu_hv0&amp;t=147s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with CGTN America</a>, Tambe discussed “rape culture” and levels of sexual violence among men. At one point, she appeared to suggest that women may play a role in these assaults, stating:
“I think the problem is also not one that is exclusive to men. Actually, I think people in general — women, mothers, mothers-in-law — do enforce certain ideas about what it means to be honorable, what it means to be respectable, notions of how to conduct oneself in public that are actually a part of the problem. So, I would also argue that we shouldn’t just be pointing fingers at men.”
Listen below for full context.

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When asked how sex education could help inform the public about violence against women, Tambe stated:

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Tambe <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Transnational_Feminist_Itineraries/2MQ1EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=ashwini+tambe+lgbt&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-authored the introduction</a> to a book entitled “Transnational Feminist Itineraries: Situating Theory and Activist Practice.” The manuscript was published in 2021 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Tambe et al. said:
“We put the finishing touches on this book during a moment of remarkable civil protests against anti-[b]lack violence. The unprecedented scale of multiracial public demonstrations across large cities and rural areas in the United States revealed a swell in support for dismantling systemic racism … These protests also took place amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic, an experience that has underscored a sense of connectedness across hierarchies of geopolitics.”
Send tips, updates, and information on Ashwini Tambe to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - July 29, 2024

<a href="http://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/profiles/Younus-Faheem/">Dr. Faheem Younus</a> is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. Dr. Younus became infamous for his comments on social media regarding the Charleston shooting. He blamed the shooting on former sniper Chris Kyle as well as Fox News, for creating a 'culture' that encourages mass shooting.

<a href="https://merrill.umd.edu/directory/deneen-brown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeNeen Brown</a> is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland who has vowed to leave America over systemic racism and oppression.

In a Washington Post op-ed—titled, “<a href="https://archive.ph/Kxlhi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Case for Leaving America to Escape Racism</a>”—Dr. Brown reveals that she grew up in the black power movement as she “never really felt at home in America." She then recounts an alleged racial incident in elementary school in which she describes her white classmates as “oppressors” and vows never to internalize their racism.

This would later inspire her work as a journalist to document racism and Black people whom she claims still suffer under “economic, political, and cultural oppression.” This is reflected in another article in which Dr. Brown alleges that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/08/modern-day-mississippi-lynchings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racially-motivated lynchings are a regular occurrence, but provides no evidence to verify her claims</a>.

Dr. Brown explains she began looking for a new place to live abroad after state legislators across the county banned teaching critical race theory in schools. Further citing her concern over the eruption of “racist terror” embodied by January 6th “insurrectionists,” Dr. Brown expresses a desire to live in a country without “entrenched racism” where she has the freedom “to move among people who look like me.”

Dr. Brown further expresses a desire to live in a place where she will not have to discuss her nation’s racism. In a previous Washington Post op-ed, she lamented how<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/17/black-people-are-tired-trying-explain-racism/?itid=ap_deneenl.brown" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> black people at large are “exhausted” over explaining racism to white people</a>. In separate tweets, she further explains the burden of racism must be placed at the feet of white society and urges others to study radicals like Che Guevara to learn how to do so.
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Racism should not be the BURDEN of Black people to always explain. That burden should be placed on society, institutions and individuals who promote racism. Our history is full of Black leaders who’ve been trying to explain it since our ancestors landed on these shores in 1619. <a href="https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0</a>
— DeNeen Brown (@DeNeenLBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeNeenLBrown/status/1275126538707652610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Study Jamaica’s hero Nanny of the Maroons, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture, the Congo’s Patrice Lumumba, and Revolutionary Che Guevara. Study Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin. They were masters at explaining Racism. <a href="https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0</a>
— DeNeen Brown (@DeNeenLBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeNeenLBrown/status/1275133150818193410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Marxist revolutionary is known for installing the <a href="https://www.humanprogress.org/the-truth-about-che-guevara-racist-homophobe-and-mass-murderer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60-year dictatorship in Cuba</a> and for his bigoted statements, such as: “<a href="https://www.heritage.org/political-process/commentary/el-che-the-crass-marketing-sadistic-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The negro is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.</a>"

Comparing her fight against racism to “punching a brick wall,” she concludes that it’s far easier to leave the country entirely, as she can no longer stand being a black person walking through “white institutions.”

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Students and Parents may contact the Philip College of Journalism at (301) 405-2399 or at <a href="mailto:journalism@umd.edu">journalism@umd.edu</a>
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Published - October 11, 2022

<a href="https://sllc.umd.edu/directory/tatiana-chi-miranda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tatiana Chi-Miranda</a> is a Ph.D. Student and Spanish teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. 

During an interview with <a href="https://dbknews.com/2022/11/21/umd-spanish-professors-add-anti-racism-curriculum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Diamondback</a>, Chi-Miranda explained how she incorporates anti-racism into her curriculum. Although her Spanish language classes focus on grammar and composition, she admitted the modules are used to discuss racism and phobias:  

“[This] is a great introduction for the anti-racism module because it allows one to establish a personal connection to the text, but also it allows them to get a critical approach to it. And it opens doors for them to have a critical attitude and cultural approach to it,” 

Chi-Miranda provided one module to The Diamondback in which her students pretend to dislike diversity. She said this was an example of xenophobia  and recited the following line:  

“I don’t want you to make friends with other cultures nor do I want you to enjoy the diversity of the world.” 

A sophomore who was interviewed by Diamondback  praised the initiative, stating that American schools have a “whitewashed curriculum:” 

“I think that’s really important because America has a tendency to leave out certain parts of history in their textbooks and teach a very whitewashed curriculum, so it is really important that Maryland and these professors are acknowledging that we have kind of neglected several important parts of history.”

Chi-Miranda’s comments were delivered in an article featuring six Spanish professors who also integrated anti-racist themes into their courses. One professor, Jose Magro, stated this is part of an attempt to put an end to the “colonized learning” that takes place at the university. 

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Published - December 8, 2022

<a href="https://www.arlis.umd.edu/caroline-orr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caroline Orr</a> is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security at the University of Maryland. According to her university profile, Orr studies misinformation, and disinformation, and how each contributes to “online extremism.”

Orr attributes most domestic violence and radicalization to the political right. On her personal <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, she claims the memes posted by these groups to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  
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I’m not a huge fan of 9/11 comparisons, but this actually does a pretty decent job of explaining how memes enable extremists to “hide in plain sight, disappearing into the clutter of innocent messages” — akin to “turning off the transponders on 9/11.”<a href="https://t.co/IjpDYCIzbr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/IjpDYCIzbr</a> <a href="https://t.co/b1XahopBn8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/b1XahopBn8</a>
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1602692678151454723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Another tweet accuses Elon Musk of encouraging 120 million people to join the “domestic terrorist movement” that is Q-Anon.  
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Elon Musk is now explicitly encouraging his 120 million followers to start following QAnon.
Put differently, Elon Musk is encouraging his 120 million followers to join a domestic terrorism movement. <a href="https://t.co/W7O9nLuivh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/W7O9nLuivh</a>

— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1602490533586378755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a substack article titled, “<a href="https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/violent-extremism-in-america-is-a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Violent extremism in America is a far-right phenomenon</a>,” she writes that attacks by right-wing groups are “surging” and outpace left-wing and Islamist violence. Orr further claims that any who suggest otherwise are attempting to distract from the burgeoning connections between extremists and mainstream conservative groups:  

“Violent extremism is overwhelmingly a problem of far-right extremism, not far-left extremism, and it doesn’t help anyone to misrepresent the threat by turning it into a “both sides” issue when the sides are not even close to equal.”

Elsewhere, not only does Orr dismiss the existence of left-wing violence, she attempts to excuse it. In a separate article, titled “<a href="https://medium.com/arc-digital/in-defense-of-antifa-62c699d86dc5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In Defense of Antifa</a>,” she condemns conservatives for attempting to “vilify” the group:

“It’s easy to see why far-right extremists have worked so hard to vilify antifascists, who represent the most consistent opponents of far-right extremism and the most steadfast allies of those targeted by far-right violence.”

At first, Orr denies the existence of Antifa in her article, describing the group only as a “collection of tactics and philosophies.” She then pivots and praises Antifa for their “quieter activities” such as “research, monitoring, and surveillance of far-right extremist groups, community organizing, and advocating for historically marginalized populations.” Orr claims this is needed to stop “white supremacist” groups from organizing. 

Writing that activists must be intolerant of violent or bigoted speech, Orr claims that direct action is necessary to prevent the far-right from organizing. Comparing Antifa to Jews who resisted Nazi occupation, Orr argues that when violence from Antifa occurs, it's committed in the name of “self-defense:” 

“...consider the possibility that some violence is a regrettable but unavoidable part of preventing much greater violence by fascists.”

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Orr for comment prior to publication. Instead of responding, Orr posted the inquiry on her personal Twitter account and accused the author of committing libel. 
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Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/Ben_Larrabee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Ben_Larrabee</a>,
Got your email, and in the interest of full transparency, I’m responding publicly. Your questions are based on miswording/misrepresenting my statements, and attributing false quotes to me would be libel.

Thanks for your inquiry.

Best,
Dr. Caroline Orr Bueno <a href="https://t.co/NVmhdx5ovc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/NVmhdx5ovc</a>

— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1607809614481084416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Published - December 27, 2022

<a href="https://sllc.umd.edu/directory/jose-magro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jose L. Magro</a> is a Lecturer at the School of Languages, Literatures, &amp; Cultures at the University of Maryland. His research interests are listed as applied linguistics and critical race theory.  

In an interview with, <a href="https://dbknews.com/2022/11/21/umd-spanish-professors-add-anti-racism-curriculum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Diamondback</a>, Margo explained that he incorporates anti-racism into his curriculum. He stated this is part of an attempt to put an end to the “colonized learning” that takes place at the university. 

His comments were delivered following a presentation titled, “<a href="https://arhu.umd.edu/events/antiracist-pedagogy-spanish-language-teaching-theory-practice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antiracist Pedagogy for Spanish Language Teaching: From Theory to Practice</a>,” which featured six Spanish and Portuguese teachers and the anti-racist materials from their classrooms. 

A fellow professor, <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/tatianachimiranda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tatiana Chi-Miranda</a>, admitted that although her Spanish language classes focus on grammar and composition, the modules are used to discuss racism and phobias: 

“[This] is a great introduction for the anti-racism module because it allows one to establish a personal connection to the text, but also it allows them to get a critical approach to it. And it opens doors for them to have a critical attitude and cultural approach to it,” 

A sophomore interviewed by the paper praised the initiative, stating that American schools have a “whitewashed curriculum:” 

“I think that’s really important because America has a tendency to leave out certain parts of history in their textbooks and teach a very whitewashed curriculum, so it is really important that Maryland and these professors are acknowledging that we have kind of neglected several important parts of history.”

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Published - December 28, 2022

<a href="https://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/content/people/name-627864-en.html?&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christabel Cheung </a>is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Her expertise and interests include “Psychosocial Oncology,” “Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA)” and “Health Equity.”

On March 15, 2023, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/professor-arguing-cancer-research-not-antiracist-comment-enough-christabel-cheung" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News featured</a> Cheung in an article titled “Professor argues cancer research not antiracist enough, offers antiracist approaches to patient engagement.” Fox reported, “Cheung’s presentation, ‘Antiracist Patient Engagement in Adolescent &amp; Young Adult Oncology Research and Advocacy,’ cited much of <a href="https://www.ibramxkendi.com/bio">Ibram X. Kendi</a>, the architect of antiracist ideology.”

Fox also said, “Cheung based her definition of antiracism through the lens of Kendi’s work, maintaining the notion that ‘there is no such thing as not being racist…the heartbeat of racism domestically in the United States has been a denial of racism, and the sound of that heartbeat has been the argument, ‘I’m not a racist.’”

<a href="https://youtu.be/AHknFfJHcMQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">During the presentation</a>, Cheung further stated: 

“[Kendi] wants us [and] encourages us to take on the perspective that we’re either being antiracist—where we’re promoting equality—or we’re being racist in the sense of working within systems. [You’re] either being complicit or actually supporting racist approaches.” 

In November 2022, <a href="https://ascopost.com/issues/november-10-2022/how-to-advance-antiracist-approaches-to-patient-engagement-in-aya-oncology-and-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The ASCO Post</a> featured Cheung in a publication where she also discussed the advancement of antiracist patient engagement with AYA. 

ASCO Post said Cheung “challenges researchers to make progress in engaging [BIPOC] AYAs in clinical studies to close the gaps in knowledge about racial and ethnic minority AYA patients and reduce disparities in their cancer outcomes.”

In response to ASCO’s question “how prevalent is racism in AYA clinical care and research [and] how is it manifested in this patient population?” Cheung said:

“The impact of systemic racism in medicine does not appear to manifest differently by age and starts from the design of the clinical trial. Implicit bias and systemic racism are woven into the fabric of the society we live in. Consequently, we all have some measure of implicit bias or unconscious prejudice that we bring to our work and must make extra efforts to address.”

She further declared,

“Antiracist policies call upon AYA oncology to depersonalize reactions to racism, acknowledge mistakes, and take corrective actions in a timely manner. We can dismantle and reorganize long-established systems in the development and testing of clinical trials, so racism does not continue to persist within these systems.”

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<a href="https://sph.umd.edu/people/jessica-fish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jessica Fish</a> is an Assistant Professor of Family Science at the University of Maryland (UMD). According to her faculty profile, Fish is a “human development and family science scholar whose research focuses on the positive development and health of LGBTQ+ people and their families.” 

Fish is also the director of UMD’s Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Health Research Group (SOGI Health). SOGI Health’s <a href="https://sph.umd.edu/research-impact/laboratories-projects-and-programs/sexual-orientation-gender-identity-and-health-sogi-health-research-group" target="_blank" rel="noopener">main page</a> says, “The research group convenes faculty, students, and community partners in an effort to better understand and support the positive development and health of LGBTQ young people.”

In January 2022, Fish <a href="https://www.srcd.org/research/gender-affirming-policies-support-transgender-and-gender-diverse-youths-health">co-authored a report</a> titled “Gender-Affirming Policies Support Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth’s Health.” In the opening paragraph, Fish, et al. stated:
“Transgender and gender diverse youth (i.e., children and adolescents whose gender identity and/or expression differs from their sex assigned at birth) are more likely to experience poor health than their peers whose gender identity aligns with their assigned sex at birth (i.e., cisgender youth) due to stigma and marginalization.”
Fish, et al. goes on to say:
“58% of [transgender youth] also report having been prevented from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity…states and schools can implement policies that protect [transgender youth] from these harmful experiences…Ultimately, [transgender youth] show more positive outcomes in school environments that implement and enforce policies and practices that affirm youth’s gender identity and protect them from discrimination.”
Fish’s <a href="https://twitter.com/DrJessicaNFish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media profile</a> and newsfeed are dedicated to LGBTQ ideologies and her work with the UMD Prevention Research Center. The Center’s <a href="https://sph.umd.edu/research-impact/research-centers/university-maryland-prevention-research-center/umd-prc-about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“About Us” page</a> says, “In collaboration with LGBTQ+ partner organizations, we promote evidence-based training of students and mental health care providers in culturally sensitive and inclusive practices.”

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Published - September 18, 2023

<a href="https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/ray/rashawn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashawn Ray</a> is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland (UMD). Ray’s faculty profile says he “leads [UMD]’s Social Justice Alliance in collaboration with Bowie State University as well as the Anti-Black Racism Initiative housed in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.”

In May 2020, Ray co-authored a <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/care-act-caste-act-jesse-jackson-rainbow-coalition-1502605" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek op-ed</a> titled “The CARES Act Risks Becoming a Caste Act. Here’s How We Change That” to highlight an alleged disproportionate amount of black Americans affected by the pandemic. Ray et al. wrote:
“Black people are over three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than other racial groups…While everyone in America is facing hardships, these hardships collide on the bodies of black Americans in ways that are more substantial and longer lasting.’’
Ray et al. concluded by stating:
“To date, the United States has spent over $3 trillion on COVID-19 relief. Similar to the end of the Civil War and The Great Depression, the most oppressed and vulnerable Americans—black Americans—are being cast to the side and used as guinea pigs.”
In October 2023, Ray was featured in <a href="https://pittnews.com/article/183483/news/rashawn-ray-discusses-policing-implicit-bias-at-africana-studies-event/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Pitt News</a> after participating in a webinar titled “Rotten Trees: Racism and Bad Apples in American Policing.” Ray was quoted saying, “‘Implicit bias is deeply embedded in organizational culture and leads to structurally imposed racial disparities.”

The Pitt goes on to emphasize Ray’s claims that “studies and statistics demonstrate how policing disproportionately affects black people” and that “approximately 70,000 of all people stopped by police in 2011 were black, 56% of these stops involved frisks and only about 2% of stops led to the discovery of contraband…” Ray further claimed, “These statistics are about ‘blackness’ not compliance.”

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtkmREGvtiM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a similar webinar discussion</a>, Ray used the following graph as an example of how police officers have racially profiled black Americans for the last two decades:

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3267 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-07-at-9.32.47 AM-1024x717.png" alt="" width="640" height="448" />

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3268 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/PWL-QUOTES-3-1024x791.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="494" />

In light of Ray’s beliefs and rhetoric, the U.S. Department of Justice released a <a href="https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cbpp18st.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revised 2018 report</a> highlighting the following statistics:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“About 61.5 million residents had at least one contact with police.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Whites (26%) were more likely than blacks (21%), Hispanics (19%), or persons of other races (20%) to experience police contact.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“There was no statistically significant difference in the percentage of whites (12%) and blacks (11%) who experienced police-initiated contact.”</li>
</ul>
Please send any information regarding Rashawn Ray to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>
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Published - November 7, 2023

<a href="https://history.umd.edu/directory/david-freund" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Freund</a> is an Associate Professor of History and an Affiliate Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland (UMD). 

Freund has authored several publications including “Colored Property: State Policy &amp; White Racial Politics in Suburban America”—<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Colored-Property-Politics-Suburban-Historical/dp/0226262766/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZCGIPIR168HC&amp;keywords=colored+property+david+freund&amp;qid=1699309383&amp;sprefix=colored+property+david+freund%2Caps%2C119&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=0226262766&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a book that examines</a> the racialization of housing developments and property rights. In the chapter titled The New Politics of Race and Property, he wrote:
“There is, nonetheless, considerable disagreement about the role that race per se played in fueling white vigilance. Many argue that while black people were clearly the targets of exclusionary practices, racism played little or no part in whites’ decision-making…
“The disagreement about postwar whites’ motivations is rooted, I argue here, in a conceptual assumption that informs most studies of racial conflict in the modern United States. Most commentaries treat white racism as something unchanging and as conceptually separate from other variables that fuel conflict between groups (including racial groups).”
In July 2023, Freund was featured in an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/race-change-to-another-trend-online-rcna93759" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News article</a> titled “Inside the online world of people who think they can change their race.” The publication discusses a Ukrainian-born American who “goes by the Japanese name Miyuki and listens to 'subliminals' that promise she will wake up and be Japanese.” 

NBC News further stated, “Freund…corroborates the idea that a ‘biological race’ does not exist [and] the modern concept of race is inseparable from the systemic racial hierarchy hundreds of years in the making. Simply put, changing races is not possible because ‘biological races’ themselves are not real.”

Freund also told NBC that “the idea of changing one’s race operates differently depending on a person’s racial background and that white people who seek to ‘transition’ to other races can often sidestep the harms of racism.”

Freund supports awarding reparations to black Americans as a form of government compensation for past offenses. He told <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_race-america_reparations-can-money-absolve-sins-past/6208006.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Voices of America</a>, “We can document systems, policies, also private practices that are constantly reproducing racial inequalities…[a]nd no one has been able to convince me otherwise.”
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Published - November 8, 2023

Tatiana Chi-Miranda

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Rosemarie Bongers is a self-proclaimed mathematician, educator, and “transgender woman” (a biological male who identifies as female) at the University of California-Merced. On his <a href="https://sites.ucmerced.edu/rosemarie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty profile</a>, Bongers includes “she/her or they/them” and images of various LGBTQ+ flags.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3880" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-19-at-3.24.45 PM.png" alt="" width="219" height="487" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-19-at-3.24.45 PM.png 219w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-19-at-3.24.45 PM-135x300.png 135w" sizes="(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px" />
In September 2024, Bongers <a href="https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202408/rnoti-p1034.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a journal article titled “Transitioning as an Early-Career Mathematician.” Bongers starts by telling readers how he “majored in mathematics and physics where [he] fell in love with the abstraction and patterns that gave [him] a sense of universal truth.” Bongers quickly moves on to inform his audience about his decision to “transition” his gender.
“For me, being transgender is a source of joy and the deepest happiness that I’ve felt; it’s also a source of struggle, challenge, discrimination, and emotional labor. This identity and awareness permeate every aspect of my life, my career, and my living in American society in 2024.”
Bongers explained “transgender” terminology and how “important” it is to use preferred names and pronouns.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3881" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-1-e1732055339684-1024x752.png" alt="" width="640" height="470" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-1-e1732055339684-1024x752.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-1-e1732055339684-300x220.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-1-e1732055339684-768x564.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-1-e1732055339684-1200x882.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-1-e1732055339684.png 1263w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />
The remainder of the article discussed Bongers’ “coming out” story, his struggle to grow up like a “normal” boy, and his medical castration procedure which he claimed to have “no regrets.” 
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The Professor Watchlist did not find any educational value in the paper. No other significant research contributions were made in the realm of higher education.
Please send tips and updates on Rosemarie Bongers to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published &#8211; November 19, 2024

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<a href="https://engineering.ucmerced.edu/content/abbas-ghassemi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abbas Ghassemi</a> is a Teaching Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of California-Merced. 

According to <a href="https://jweekly.com/2020/12/21/uc-merced-professor-deletes-antisemitism-laden-twitter-account/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Jewish News of California</a>, in June of 2023 Ghassemi tweeted, “… reality bites!!!!!!” accompanied by an image of “The Zionist Brain.”

“The Zionist Brain” image features several “anti-semitic tropes” conveyed through the image and areas of a human brain. (see image of tweet below).

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According to Jewish News, this “same image can be found on a website called ‘Jew World Order,’ which peddles antisemitic conspiracy theories.” (Note: The Professor Watch List team was unable to locate this website.)

Jewish News also reported on Ghasemmi’s tweet following Joe Biden’s election to the U.S. Presidency:
“Surprise, surprise!! The entire system in America is controlled by [the] Zionist. Change of president is just a surface polish, change of veneer. Same trash different pile!”
In another tweet, Ghassemi stated, 
“[T]he Zionists and IsraHell interest have embedded themselves in every component of the American system, media, banking, policy, commerce … just a veneer of serving US interest and population — everyone pretends that is the case.”
When Jewish News sent a request for comment to Ghassemi regarding his social media commentary, his Twitter account was deleted. 

A UC-Merced spokesperson distanced the university from Ghassemi’s antisemitic tweets: 
“As the now-inactive Twitter account made clear, these were the opinions of a private individual, not the positions of the institution.”
As of October 2023, Ghassemi remains employed as a faculty member at UC Merced despite his previous anti-semitic commentary on Twitter.
Published - October 20, 2023

Rosemarie Bongers is a self-proclaimed mathematician, educator, and “transgender woman” (a biological male who identifies as female) at the University of California-Merced. On his <a href="https://sites.ucmerced.edu/rosemarie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty profile</a>, Bongers includes “she/her or they/them” and images of various LGBTQ+ flags.

<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3880" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-19-at-3.24.45 PM.png" alt="" width="219" height="487" />

In September 2024, Bongers <a href="https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202408/rnoti-p1034.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a journal article titled “Transitioning as an Early-Career Mathematician.” Bongers starts by telling readers how he “majored in mathematics and physics where [he] fell in love with the abstraction and patterns that gave [him] a sense of universal truth.” Bongers quickly moves on to inform his audience about his decision to “transition” his gender.

“For me, being transgender is a source of joy and the deepest happiness that I’ve felt; it’s also a source of struggle, challenge, discrimination, and emotional labor. This identity and awareness permeate every aspect of my life, my career, and my living in American society in 2024.”

Bongers explained “transgender” terminology and how “important” it is to use preferred names and pronouns.

<img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3881" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-1-e1732055339684-1024x752.png" alt="" width="640" height="470" />

The remainder of the article discussed Bongers’ “coming out” story, his struggle to grow up like a “normal” boy, and his medical castration procedure which he claimed to have “no regrets.” 

<img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3882" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pwl-2-e1732055434229-1024x738.png" alt="" width="640" height="461" />

The Professor Watchlist did not find any educational value in the paper. No other significant research contributions were made in the realm of higher education.

Please send tips and updates on Rosemarie Bongers to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 19, 2024

Rosemarie Bongers

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Matthew Gabriele is a <a href="https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-religion-and-culture/faculty/matthew-gabriele.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Medieval Studies </a>and Chair of the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, including Apocalyptic Theories, Religion and Violence, and Game of Thrones: The Medieval and the Modern. He has also penned many publications for outlets such as CNN, the Washington Post, TIME, and Teen Vogue. He often writes about history and how conservatives alter historical events to make themselves sound better.
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/03/historical-analogies-covid-fascism-mccarthyism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In an article for the Washington Post</a>, Dr. Gabriele accuses conservatives of making “bad analogies” in order to combat anyone asking them to “reflect on their words or actions.” As an example, he alleges that the political-right compares mask mandates and Covid-19 vaccination cards to the yellow stars the Nazis forced the Jewish to wear during the Holocaust in order to pretend to be a “new persecuted minority.”
Dr. Gabriele does, however, support the analogy that detention facilities for illegal immigrants at the border under conservative leadership are the same as concentration camps during the holocaust.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1786" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-16-at-12.21.03-PM.png" alt="" width="528" height="244" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-16-at-12.21.03-PM.png 528w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-16-at-12.21.03-PM-300x139.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px" />
During the Holocaust, Nazis illegally forced legal citizens of a specific religion, political affiliation, or ethnicity into <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/concentration-camps-1933-39" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concentration camps,</a> where many were ultimately executed. <a href="https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Immigration detention facilities</a> in the United States at the southern border were installed in order to keep those entering the country illegally in one place until they speak with an immigration judge to determine if they can stay in the U.S. or if they will be sent back home.
Dr. Gabriel often takes to Twitter to voice his strong disdain for conservatives and the police. He calls conservatives “bigots” and “sh*tbags” and also compares police precincts to gangs. Some examples are below:
https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1380327296586936321
https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1195098152031981572
https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1446101900554866689
<a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/crusades-trump-supporters-history?utm_source=cmpgn_news&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=vtUnirelDirectEmailCMP_DM610362" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In an article for Teen Vogue</a>, Dr. Gabriele discusses why conservatives are so obsessed with medieval history. He claims that conservatives believe they are “under siege” and try to string together irrelevant historical events and “bullsh#t history” to give “historical legitimacy to their hate.”
Dr. Gabriele perpetuates negative stereotypes and slanderous imagery of conservatives both in his professional publications and on his personal social media. He is a professor who teaches courses on Christianity and religious love but spreads political hate online.
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Parents and Students may contact Virginia Tech at (540) 231-6000.

Matthew Gabriele is a <a href="https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-religion-and-culture/faculty/matthew-gabriele.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Medieval Studies </a>and Chair of the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, including Apocalyptic Theories, Religion and Violence, and Game of Thrones: The Medieval and the Modern. He has also penned many publications for outlets such as CNN, the Washington Post, TIME, and Teen Vogue. He often writes about history and how conservatives alter historical events to make themselves sound better.

<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/03/historical-analogies-covid-fascism-mccarthyism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In an article for the Washington Post</a>, Dr. Gabriele accuses conservatives of making “bad analogies” in order to combat anyone asking them to “reflect on their words or actions.” As an example, he alleges that the political-right compares mask mandates and Covid-19 vaccination cards to the yellow stars the Nazis forced the Jewish to wear during the Holocaust in order to pretend to be a “new persecuted minority.”

Dr. Gabriele does, however, support the analogy that detention facilities for illegal immigrants at the border under conservative leadership are the same as concentration camps during the holocaust.

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1786" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-16-at-12.21.03-PM.png" alt="" width="528" height="244" />

During the Holocaust, Nazis illegally forced legal citizens of a specific religion, political affiliation, or ethnicity into <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/concentration-camps-1933-39" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concentration camps,</a> where many were ultimately executed. <a href="https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Immigration detention facilities</a> in the United States at the southern border were installed in order to keep those entering the country illegally in one place until they speak with an immigration judge to determine if they can stay in the U.S. or if they will be sent back home.

Dr. Gabriel often takes to Twitter to voice his strong disdain for conservatives and the police. He calls conservatives “bigots” and “sh*tbags” and also compares police precincts to gangs. Some examples are below:

https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1380327296586936321

https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1195098152031981572

https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1446101900554866689

<a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/crusades-trump-supporters-history?utm_source=cmpgn_news&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=vtUnirelDirectEmailCMP_DM610362" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In an article for Teen Vogue</a>, Dr. Gabriele discusses why conservatives are so obsessed with medieval history. He claims that conservatives believe they are “under siege” and try to string together irrelevant historical events and “bullsh#t history” to give “historical legitimacy to their hate.”

Dr. Gabriele perpetuates negative stereotypes and slanderous imagery of conservatives both in his professional publications and on his personal social media. He is a professor who teaches courses on Christianity and religious love but spreads political hate online.

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Parents and Students may contact Virginia Tech at (540) 231-6000.