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January 20, 2006
UCLA Moonbat Hunt
Talk about shooting fish in a barrel: the Bruin Alumni Association, through its project UCLAProfs.com, is offering a bounty on moonbat profs at UCLA:
Do you have a professor who just can't stop talking about President Bush, about Howard Dean, about the war in Iraq, about MoveOn.org, about the Republican Party, about the Democratic Party, or any other ideological issue that has nothing to do with the class subject matter? ...
If you can help UCLAProfs.com collect information about abusive, one-sided, or off-topic classroom behavior, we'll pay you for your work.
You'll need some documentation to collect your bounty. Rates are as follows:
- Full, detailed lecture notes, all professor-distributed materials, and full tape recordings of every class session, for one class: $100
- Full, detailed lecture notes and all professor-distributed materials, for one class: $50
- Advisory and all professor-distributed materials: $10
UCLAProfs.com has already posted a long list of militant kooks on the UCLA faculty, complete with profiles. The idea of these ideologues shaping young minds with an assist from the taxpayer will make your hair stand on end. Their current Radical of the Week is the ungracefully aging hippie and "Philosophy of Education" professor Douglas Kellner.
Naturally, the project stands accused of "McCarthyism" for suggesting that demagogic professors ought to climb down from their soapboxes and start teaching their classes in a professional manner. UCLAProfs.com responds:
UCLAProfs.com is not conducting a witch-hunt, engaging in police-state surveillance, or targeting privately-held political beliefs. We are concerned solely with indoctrination, one-sided presentation of ideological controversies, and unprofessional classroom behavior, no matter where it falls on the ideological spectrum. As an illustrative example of egregious behavior with which UCLAProfs is concerned, please review the article BAA President Andrew Jones wrote about his experience in a 2002 political science class. Occasional political remarks, jokes, or the like are generally harmless behavior. We are concerned with a class which in full any reasonable observer would agree was taught in an unacceptable or unprofessional manner. ...
Accusing a professor of unprofessional behavior is in essence an accusation of professional malfeasance. UCLAProfs.com will air such charges only after extended reviews of a professor's record. The taping of lectures leaves no room for a vengeful student to take questionable statements out of context, to (deliberately or inadvertently) misquote a professor, or to otherwise give a false portrait of the class. As such, we find the current hysteria, and the many intemperate accusations that the UCLAProfs.com program is a "blacklist," "ratting out" professors, or other contemptible phenomenon, to be a severe distortion. Our program is more fair and more professional than many similar ongoing projects which rely on volunteer reports that in too many cases are thinly backed by independent evidence.
Hat tip: ex-expat
Posted by Van Helsing at January 20, 2006 1:46 PM
Comments
All these liberals so annoyed with the UCLAprofs.com are retarded. Look at UCLA's English Department! It's overflowing with leftist radicals. Don't believe me? See for yourself. (Not that liberals will. These moonbats never see what they don't want to.)
Posted by: R.R. at January 20, 2006 2:52 PM
As all the following comments from Moonbats will so clearly demonstrate, these people are nothing but barking poodles nipping at the heels of civilized men.
Why, all Ward Nutball Churchill can do is POSE with an AK47. He could never figure out how to actually fire one without falling on his white pansy ass and getting his lily white nose bloody.
LMAO!
Posted by: Doug at January 20, 2006 3:21 PM
Campus Watch - www.campus-watch.org was doing a similar job with respect to Middle Eastern Studies and with remarkable success.
Whilst the work is far from over, it too, was branded as McCarthyism, witch-hunts etc. Of course none of the namecalling addressed the academically referenced and well documented examples they cited.
In other words, some people just can't handle being busted.
Posted by: Dan Lew at January 20, 2006 9:35 PM
So, it's "McCarthyism" to reveal to the public exactly what Marxist professors are spouting in their classrooms, but revealing details of classified counter-terrorism activities is good citizenship.
R-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-g-h-t
McCarthy was right, anyway.
Posted by: V the K at January 21, 2006 2:24 PM
He was right, but he was a politician too. Politicians always go for the easy mark, the most visible target, and he wasted his time going after card-carrying communists who, more often than not, were idealists and idiots. The real spies were never members of of the communist party, and never, or rarely, affiliated themselves with visible communist groups.
Posted by: Archonix at January 21, 2006 7:42 PM
