The academic Trumpists: American professors who support the Trump presidency

Swartz, David L.

doi:10.1007/s11186-020-09391-4

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Section: Right-wing Intellectuals and Their Transnational Connectionsmentioning

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“…This paper highlights the role of intellectuals in providing historical discourses and viewpoints through both offline and online venues and mediating between political elites and ordinary citizens. Due to the academic focus on either Far‐Right political parties or violent extra‐institutional grassroots activism, questions regarding knowledge production and intellectuals are relatively under‐explored in the study of the Far Right (Swartz, 2020; Yang, 2021). Although the Far Right is often associated with anti‐intellectualism due to its violence, seemingly unrefined ideas, attacks on expertise and scientific knowledge and constituency of less educated citizens, it also engages with intellectual projects for its own ends (Miller‐Idriss, 2020).…”

Section: Right‐wing Intellectuals and Their Transnational Connectionsmentioning

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Strange bedfellows: Why right‐wing intellectuals in South Korea chose to cooperate with their country's former coloniser

Yang,

Asahina

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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Why and when do today's Far‐Right groups cooperate across national boundaries? This paper seeks to provide answers to these questions by examining a deviant rather than representative case: the transnational connections between right‐wing intellectuals in South Korea and Japan. Analysing the recent publication of a highly controversial and provocative book and the transnational politics around it, we emphasise the roles of right‐wing intellectuals and the processes by which divergent political interests converge in changing geopolitical and domestic political contexts. By situating Far Right activities in its broader context of shaping—colonial history, American hegemony and the confrontation with socialist regimes such as China and North Korea—this paper develops a contextual account of the transnational Far Right.

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Section: Right-wing Intellectuals and Their Transnational Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Right‐wing Intellectuals and Their Transnational Connectionsmentioning

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Strange bedfellows: Why right‐wing intellectuals in South Korea chose to cooperate with their country's former coloniser

Yang,

Asahina

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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“…Former Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, accused liberal faculty members of forcing their views upon students, telling them what to think, with indoctrination replacing education (Jaschik, 2017). Conservatives commonly claim that academic life is now dominated by scholars with progressive liberal or left-wing values, with only a tiny minority of university scholars supporting Trump (Swartz, 2020). Intolerance of dissenting views, especially among the progressive "far-left," it is argued, silences conservative perspectives, brainwashing students into "politically correct" views.…”

Section: Normative Argumentsmentioning

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Cancel Culture: Myth or Reality?

Norris

2021

Political Studies

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In recent years, a progressive “cancel culture” in society, right-wing politicians and commentators claim, has silenced alternative perspectives, ostracized contrarians, and eviscerated robust intellectual debate, with college campuses at the vanguard of this development. These arguments can be dismissed as rhetorical dog whistles devoid of substantive meaning, myths designed to fire up the MAGA faithful, outrage progressives, and distract from urgent real-world problems. Given heated contention, however, something more fundamental may be at work. To understand this phenomenon, the opening section defines the core concept and theorizes that perceptions of this phenomenon are likely to depend upon how far individual values fit the dominant group culture. Within academia, scholars most likely to perceive “silencing” are mismatched or non-congruent cases, where they are “fish-out-of-water.” The next section describes how empirical survey evidence is used to test this prediction within the discipline of political science. Data are derived from a global survey, the World of Political Science, 2019, involving almost 2500 scholars studying or working in over 100 countries. The next section describes the results. The conclusion summarizes the key findings and considers their broader implications. Overall, the evidence confirms the “fish-out-of-water” congruence thesis. As predicted, in post-industrial societies, characterized by predominately liberal social cultures, like the US, Sweden, and UK, right-wing scholars were most likely to perceive that they faced an increasingly chilly climate. By contrast, in developing societies characterized by more traditional moral cultures, like Nigeria, it was left-wing scholars who reported that a cancel culture had worsened. This contrast is consistent with Noelle-Neumann’s spiral of silence thesis, where mainstream values in any group gradually flourish to become the predominant culture, while, due to social pressures, dissenting minority voices become muted. The ratchet effect eventually muffles contrarians. The evidence suggests that the cancel culture is not simply a rhetorical myth; scholars may be less willing to speak up to defend their moral beliefs if they believe that their views are not widely shared by colleagues or the wider society to which they belong.

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“…O ataque às universidades foi também identificado em estudos que analisaram o movimento a partir: do controle estatal do ensino superior (FORRAT, 2016); da falta de apoio estatal às universidades públicas (REIFF, 2014); do ataque dos conservadores da direita à ciência e ao significado social do conhecimento (ANDREA, 2018;ARBEN FOX, 2007;HILL;WILSON;WATSON, 2004;OCHKINA, 2018;WATSON, 2000); do ataque dos conservadores da direita à liberdade acadêmica (ORZECK, 2012); do ataque neoliberal à ideia de ensino superior público (HOLMWOOD; BHAMBRA, 2012); da utilização de meios de comunicação em redes sociais para fabricar a identidade política neoliberal (COLLIER et al, 2019); do assédio público e repressão política da academia e a neoliberalização do ensino superior (DOĞAN;SELENICA, 2022;DÖNMEZ;DUMAN, 2020;FERBER, 2018;MANDELL, 2018); do ataque neoliberal aos professores e à formação direcionada para a consciência política (GIROUX, 2016;RIEMER, 2016); da precarização do trabalho no ensino superior, enfraquecimento da instituição e das organizações sindicais (MANCEBO et al, 2020); da mercantilização do ensino superior (LOVEDAY, 2021); e dos ataques de Trump e o uso de fake news (PAIK, 2020;SWARTZ, 2020).…”

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The intentional production of disinformation through fake news in the Bolsonaro government: the dismantling of Brazilian federal universities

Lievore¹,

Cantorani²,

Rubbo³

et al. 2022

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ResumoO presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar os ataques feitos por meio de fake news pelo grupo do presidente Bolsonaro contra as universidades federais brasileiras. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo que, em função dos procedimentos técnicos, caracteriza-se com estudo de caso. O corpus de pesquisa foi constituído matérias jornalísticas contendo falas do presidente Jair Bolsonaro e seus ministros da Educação e Economia em relação as universidades federais e aos servidores públicos. O procedimento analítico utilizado foi a análise do conteúdo. Constatou-se a existência de um discurso, propagado por fake news, de que a universidade é ineficiente, não produz conhecimento e desperdiça dinheiro público construído pelo governo Bolsonaro. Conclui-se que as fake news são um mecanismo amplamente utilizado no projeto ultraneoliberal de Bolsonaro para a privatização do ensino superior e desescolarização do população brasileira. Palavras-chave: fake news, universidades federais brasileiras, governo Bolsonaro.

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The academic Trumpists: American professors who support the Trump presidency

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

Strange bedfellows: Why right‐wing intellectuals in South Korea chose to cooperate with their country's former coloniser

Strange bedfellows: Why right‐wing intellectuals in South Korea chose to cooperate with their country's former coloniser

Cancel Culture: Myth or Reality?

The intentional production of disinformation through fake news in the Bolsonaro government: the dismantling of Brazilian federal universities

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