Turning Point USA

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9/28/2022
  

  This Conservative Thinks TPUSA is a Dangerous Turn Toward Campus McCarthyism

  by Jonathan Marks

  Turning Point USA is now a $40 million a year behemoth. Its influence is steering campus conservative culture to the conspiratorial and extreme, "more Alex Jones than Allan Bloom."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/17/2020
  

  The Outrage Peddlers Are Here to Stay

  Campus Reform seeks to "stoke outrage at ‘liberal’ professors, with the political intent of creating a viral sensation that circulates through a highly partisan right-wing media ecosystem, and into the broader public discussion,” says Isaac Camola, a political science professor who has been active in organizing professors who are targeted by outrage campaigns.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/12/2020
  

  Me, Tucker Carlson and the Danger to Democracy Posed by False Allegations

  by Danielle Allen

  A Harvard political theorist takes the Fox News host to task for allowing his conservative guest to make inflammatory and unfounded statements about her in-class speech, which led to her receiving death threats.

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
  11/13/2020
  

  When False Allegations from Court Evangelical Charlie Kirk Resulted in Death Threats to a Harvard Professor

  by John Fea

  When right-wing outrage merchants charge professors with thought crimes, is it ethical for the media to amplify those charges without investigation? Tucker Carlson says "sure." 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/24/2020
  

  A Side Effect of Remote Teaching During Covid-19? Videos That Can Be Weaponized

  Turning Point, Campus Reform, and other groups have created a cottage industry of naming and shaming professors who they say advance what they call the liberal agenda.