The most striking thing about looking back on the attack of a professor who correctly identified the threat of a Trump Presidency is that those making the attacks still don’t think they did anything wrong and see themselves as victims. https://twitter.com/uwkenmayer/status/1350824018341994496

By way of background, Ken is a friend and co-author. He tagged me b/c I blogged & tweeted about what happened at the time as an example of the ecosystem of right wing attacks on academia
this piece @HdxAcademy: https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/academic-freedom-campus-craziness/
& thread: https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1088226253021302785?s=20

. @KellyMeyerhofer, a Madison reporter did something I was always tempted to do: she went back to those who drove the attack on the faculty. Rep. Dave Murphy, and a student who had worked in Paul Ryans office. https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/teaching-about-trump-uw-madison-professor-whose-syllabus-drew-backlash-speaks-out/article_92ab6813-7d83-59b6-9bea-80bd81cadf9a.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

Murphy is a serial offender. He talks about free speech but Mayer was not the first time he suggested that UW Madison would be better off removing a professor because he did not like the syllabus. He also chairs the Assembly cmmtee that oversees higher ed. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/opinion/whos-really-placing-limits-on-free-speech.html