‘If There’s an Organized Outrage Machine, We Need an Organized Response’

The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Chris Quintana
July 18, 2017

Anticipating the possibility of an internet mob harassing a professor because of something he or she said can seem a bit like prepping for a lightening bolt.  Yes, people get stuck by lightening, but more often than not it feels like a freak occurrence.  It's easily avoided, some might say, by not flying a kite in a thunderstorm.

But these strikes appear to have grown more common in recent months.  Sure a professor who calls for the hanging of President Trump should expect blowback, but it's hard to argue the same for, say, a professor who writes a lengthy essay on classical statues and how they have been co-opted by the modern white-nationalist movement.  These attacks also come at a time when a majority of Republican or right-leaning Americans harbor a negative view of the nation's higher education institutions.

Read the full article at The Chronicle of Higher Education's website here.

Read the Academe Blog's response to this article titled, Organizing, Organization, and the AAUP, here.