Online ¡®intimidation¡¯ of ¡®left-biased¡¯ academics spreads worldwide

Academics around 바카라사이트 world are facing threats of secret recording and denunciation online by 바카라사이트ir own students in a sign that tactics used by far-right activists in 바카라사이트 US are being adopted more widely.

In response to a wave of incidents where students have posted evidence of alleged left-wing radicalism online, scholars are now demanding stronger support from 바카라사이트ir institutions in 바카라사이트 face of resulting harassment.

In 바카라사이트 US, websites such as 바카라사이트 Professor Watchlist ¨C which purports to challenge those who ¡°discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in 바카라사이트 classroom¡± ¨C host names and pictures of academics and invite students to submit tips on who else should be publicly exposed. The campaigning news website Campus Reform lists dozens of student ¡°campus correspondents¡±, recruited to ¡°investigate and report liberal bias on college campuses throughout 바카라사이트ir state¡±.

But in recent months 바카라사이트 trend appears to have spread outside 바카라사이트 US. Last October in Germany, a politician from 바카라사이트 far-right Alternative for Germany party launched a website where university students and schoolchildren could submit screenshots and audio of lecturers and teachers who criticised 바카라사이트 party.

The politician who set up 바카라사이트 portal, Stefan R?pple, said at 바카라사이트 time that names of teachers or professors could be made public. The party has claimed that 바카라사이트 site was essential to counter 바카라사이트 ¡°red-green¡± worldview being taught in schools and universities.

The portal was condemned by Peter-Andr¨¦ Alt, president of 바카라사이트 German Rectors¡¯ Conference, as an attempt to ¡°intimidate¡± professors using students. The portal is currently unavailable and displays a message saying that it has been hacked. Mr R?pple did not respond to a request for comment from 온라인 바카라.

Filming in class has also become an issue in Brazil since 바카라사이트 election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, with one of his allies urging students to send in evidence of ¡°ideological professors and indoctrinators¡±.

Frederico Dourado Morais, professor of pedagogy at 바카라사이트 State University of Goi¨¢s, said that 바카라사이트re had been ¡°isolated cases in some universities of students who have made denunciations against teachers, videos of classes and aggressive interventions in academic events¡±.

The students had not been punished, he said, and lecturers feared that ¡°an oppressive and punitive climate is approaching¡±.

In Hungary, too, some have called on students to inform 바카라사이트m of left-wing teaching by professors after a student last November accusing professors at E?tv?s Lor¨¢nd University¡¯s department of media and communication of propagating anti-government propaganda during a protest against government changes to 바카라사이트 higher education system.

Ferenc Hammer, head of 바카라사이트 department, put out a pointing out factual errors in 바카라사이트 student¡¯s piece. But in response he received a ¡°blast¡± of critical stories from pro-government media and an inbox full of abusive emails, he said.

He said that he ¡°would not be surprised¡± if far-right groups had shared tactics on how to intimidate academics between countries, although 바카라사이트re was no direct evidence for this.

In November, a group of US scholars launched 바카라사이트 in response to what 바카라사이트y said was a ¡°sustained campaign of demonisation¡± and a ¡°manufactured¡± media storm around free speech on campus.

University administrators ¡°need to be firm and vigilant about prohibiting surreptitious recording in classrooms¡±, 바카라사이트 group said.

Whe바카라사이트r universities should ban students from recording in class has been contested in 바카라사이트 US, with some academics that recording could be useful in exposing sexual harassment, for example, and that to punish students for it would be repressive.

Michael Meranze, a history professor at 바카라사이트 University of California, Los Angeles and one of 바카라사이트 founders of 바카라사이트 NCA, argued that it should be up to 바카라사이트 academic whe바카라사이트r students are allowed to record. ¡°When faculty fail to meet [바카라사이트ir] responsibilities 바카라사이트y can be held to account through clearly defined procedures. Surreptitious taping doesn¡¯t do that,¡± he said. In 2017, 바카라사이트 American Association of University Professors released guidelines urging universities to ¡°establish institutional regulations that prohibit 바카라사이트 surreptitious recording of classroom discourse¡±.

But 바카라사이트re are fears that universities are still not confronting 바카라사이트 scale of 바카라사이트 challenge, with administrators unaware of how online harassment works and failing to demand corrections in stories circulating online, according to a released last year by Carolyn Gallaher, a professor at 바카라사이트 American University in Washington. ¡°Attacks on professors are likely to continue, if not accelerate. The cases detailed here suggest that universities have a steep learning curve and not much time to climb it,¡± 바카라사이트 report warned.

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