1. La "Professor Watchlist" y su Propósito.
La "Professor Watchlist" fue creada por TPUSA para, según la organización, "exponer y documentar" a profesores que discriminan a estudiantes conservadores. Sin embargo, los críticos la describen como una "lista de objetivos" o "lista negra" diseñada para atacar a académicos con ideas de izquierda y amenazar la libertad académica.
- Kirk's tpusa maintained a “professor watchlist” to allegedly “expose & document college professors who allegedly discriminate against conservative students".
- Periodic reminder that charlie kirk's tpusa kept a hit list of professors submitted by students who argued that those professors "stifled free speech" or "discriminated against conservatives" and that hit list was used to harass, terrorize and in some cases assault professors.
- His org, tpusa, also runs the infamous "professor watchlist", which targets academics and threatens academic freedom.
- Kirk’s tpusa maintained a blacklist of people primarily in higher education who they targeted to try to get them fired for their speech acts.
2. Consecuencias Directas: Acoso, Amenazas y Violencia.
Los profesores incluidos en la lista enfrentaron graves repercusiones. El texto detalla cómo la exposición en la lista condujo a campañas de acoso, doxxing (publicación de información personal), amenazas de muerte e incluso agresiones físicas, convirtiendo la vida de algunos académicos en un "infierno viviente".
- Kirk’s watchlist made some professors’ lives a ‘living hell’ a professor of history at the university of montana received death threats after being placed on a tpusa target list.
- In 2023, an asu professor on tpusa’s “watchlist” was physically attacked by someone associated with tpusa.
- Two tpusa employees used the tpusa professor watchlist to find, harass, and ultimately beat bloody a queer professor.
- Kirk used tpusa to dox college professors who he considered "left wing" or dei hires. These professors were harassed and received death threats from kirk's followers. Some lost their positions or were forced to resign.
3. Acusaciones de Extremismo y Tácticas Autoritarias.
Numerosos comentarios en el documento califican a TPUSA como una organización extremista y terrorista. Se acusa al grupo de utilizar tácticas autoritarias y de intimidación para silenciar a sus oponentes y declarar la guerra a la educación superior, en lugar de fomentar un debate democrático.
- Tpusa is an extremist group tpusa puts target on the back of professors they disagree with kirk’s watchlist made professors’ lives a ‘living hell’.
- Tpusa is a terrorist organization i am on kirk’s “professor watchlist.” i know how it destroys civil debate.
- Practicing politics the right way means terrorism, got it. I'm sorry, are you out of your fucking mind? tpusa was created to harass and abuse faculty until they were driven out of academia.
- Kirk wasn't just "showing up to debate", he was running systematic harassment campaigns. [...] that's not democratic discourse, it's authoritarian tactics with corporate backing.
4. Impacto en la Libertad Académica y el Debate.
La estrategia de TPUSA es vista como un ataque directo a la libertad de expresión y al debate civil en los campus universitarios. Se argumenta que el objetivo explícito es intimidar a los profesores para que se autocensuren, transformando el aula de un espacio colaborativo a uno de confrontación y miedo.
- The watchlist created by charlie kirk’s turning point usa is anathema to both [free speech & debate].
- Tpusa only exists to declare war on higher education, and was responsible for dozens (hundreds?) of firings of faculty whose only crime was saying things tpusa doesn't like.
- The purpose of having tpusa brownshirts on campuses is to intimidate professors into self-censoring. That's the *explicit* goal.
- Talking to my students, i was reminded of how much the classroom has changed in the wake of kirk and tpusa; how it had become oppositional rather than collaborative, a place that invited trolling rather than good faith.