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[[Discover the Networks]] is 'a website dedicated to exposing radical professors'.<ref>Gary Younge, G2: Silence in class: University professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers suspended for their politics; students encouraged to report on their tutors. Are US campuses in the grip of a witch-hunt of progressives, or is academic life just too liberal?, ''The Guardian'', 4-April-2006</ref> Launched in 2005<ref>Discover the Network, [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/readnews.asp?newsitem=123 Contact], discoverthenetworks.org, Accessed 20-May-2011</ref> the group is connected to [[David Horowitz]] who is involved with the similar websites [[Campus Watch]], [[Jihad Watch]], [[Professors Watch]] and [[Media Watch]].<ref>Gary Younge, G2: Silence in class: University professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers suspended for their politics; students encouraged to report on their tutors. Are US campuses in the grip of a witch-hunt of progressives, or is academic life just too liberal?, ''The Guardian'', 4-April-2006</ref> Horowitz also founded [[Students for Academic Freedom]], a group designed to 'force American universities to adopt quotas for conservative professors as well as monitor the political inclinations of their staff'.<ref>Gary Younge, G2: Silence in class: University professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers suspended for their politics; students encouraged to report on their tutors. Are US campuses in the grip of a witch-hunt of progressives, or is academic life just too liberal?, ''The Guardian'', 4-April-2006</ref>
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[[Discover the Networks]] is a database website that describes itself as 'a 'Guide to the Political Left.<ref>[http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7030 What this Site is About], DiscovertheNetworks.org, accessed 20 June 2011 </ref> It has also been described as 'a website dedicated to exposing radical professors'.<ref name="Silence">Gary Younge, G2: Silence in class: University professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers suspended for their politics; students encouraged to report on their tutors. Are US campuses in the grip of a witch-hunt of progressives, or is academic life just too liberal?, ''The Guardian'', 4-April-2006</ref>  
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Launched in 2005<ref>Discover the Network, [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/readnews.asp?newsitem=123 Contact], discoverthenetworks.org, Accessed 20-May-2011</ref> the group is connected to [[David Horowitz]] who is involved with the similar websites [[Campus Watch]], [[Jihad Watch]], [[Professors Watch]] and [[Media Watch]].<ref name="Silence"/> Horowitz also founded [[Students For Academic Freedom]], a group designed to 'force American universities to adopt quotas for conservative professors as well as monitor the political inclinations of their staff'.<ref name="Silence"/>
  
 
==Paul Gilroy==
 
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Chair of African American studies at Yale University, Paul Gilroy, was listed by Discover the Networks after speaking at a university-sponsored teach-in on the Iraq war. Gilroy argued that:
 
Chair of African American studies at Yale University, Paul Gilroy, was listed by Discover the Networks after speaking at a university-sponsored teach-in on the Iraq war. Gilroy argued that:
  
:I think the morality of cluster bombs, of uranium-tipped bombs, (of) daisy cutters are shaped by an imperial double standard that values American lives more. adding that (The war seems motivated by) a desire to enact revenge for the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon . . . (It's important) to speculate about the relation between this war and the geopolitical interests of Israel.<ref>Gary Younge, G2: Silence in class: University professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers suspended for their politics; students encouraged to report on their tutors. Are US campuses in the grip of a witch-hunt of progressives, or is academic life just too liberal?, ''The Guardian'', 4-April-2006</ref>
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:I think the morality of cluster bombs, of uranium-tipped bombs, (of) daisy cutters are shaped by an imperial double standard that values American lives more. adding that (The war seems motivated by) a desire to enact revenge for the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon . . . (It's important) to speculate about the relation between this war and the geopolitical interests of Israel.<ref name="Silence"/>
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==Affiliations==
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*[[David Horowitz Freedom Center]]
  
 
==Website==
 
==Website==
 
 
[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/ Discover the Networks]
 
[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/ Discover the Networks]
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
 
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[[Category:Academic Freedom]]

Latest revision as of 07:18, 10 March 2015

Discover the Networks is a database website that describes itself as 'a 'Guide to the Political Left.[1] It has also been described as 'a website dedicated to exposing radical professors'.[2]

Launched in 2005[3] the group is connected to David Horowitz who is involved with the similar websites Campus Watch, Jihad Watch, Professors Watch and Media Watch.[2] Horowitz also founded Students For Academic Freedom, a group designed to 'force American universities to adopt quotas for conservative professors as well as monitor the political inclinations of their staff'.[2]

Paul Gilroy

Chair of African American studies at Yale University, Paul Gilroy, was listed by Discover the Networks after speaking at a university-sponsored teach-in on the Iraq war. Gilroy argued that:

I think the morality of cluster bombs, of uranium-tipped bombs, (of) daisy cutters are shaped by an imperial double standard that values American lives more. adding that (The war seems motivated by) a desire to enact revenge for the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon . . . (It's important) to speculate about the relation between this war and the geopolitical interests of Israel.[2]

Affiliations

Website

Discover the Networks

Notes

  1. What this Site is About, DiscovertheNetworks.org, accessed 20 June 2011
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Gary Younge, G2: Silence in class: University professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers suspended for their politics; students encouraged to report on their tutors. Are US campuses in the grip of a witch-hunt of progressives, or is academic life just too liberal?, The Guardian, 4-April-2006
  3. Discover the Network, Contact, discoverthenetworks.org, Accessed 20-May-2011