Leftist Totalitarian Dictator Professors, UNITE!

From today’s Progress Report:
Progress Report, 3/24/05 – American Progress Action Fund

EDUCATION – FLORIDA BILL TARGETS “DICTATOR PROFESSORS”: Conservative Florida legislators are pushing a bill that aims to stamp out “leftist totalitarianism” by “dictator professors” in the classrooms of Florida’s universities. The so-called “Academic Freedom Bill of Rights” legislation is yet another state spin-off of right-wing activist David Horowitz’s campus crusade to prohibit public and private college professors from introducing “controversial matter” into the classroom and shift oversight of college course content to state governments and courts. “According to a legislative staff analysis of the bill, the law would give students who think their beliefs are not being respected legal standing to sue professors and universities,” the University of Florida’s student newspaper reports. Students would also have the right to sue if they believe their professor is “singling them out for ‘public ridicule’ – for instance, when professors use the Socratic method to force students to explain their theories in class.” The bill has two more committees to pass before it can be considered by the full House.

This is what Ward Churchill warns about when he says, “It’s been announced in pretty clear terms by both David Horowitz and Newt Gingrich that I am just the kickoff for a general purge they have in mind.. Academia is to be a cheering section for red, white and blue, as they define it, and it has no other function.”