Abstract
The purpose of this article is to provide linkages to retributive political actions centred in the USA aimed at erasing a long standing commitment of the responsibility of institutions of higher education to correct and ameliorate historical social, racial and moral injustices and inequalities with a political ideology that denies their legitimacy through guilt by association. This ideology proceeds through a series of actions such as demonising academics on the left (e.g. Marx, Freire, Marcuse), half – baked conspiracy theories, forms of symbolic and physical violence along with legislative suppression of dissent combined with censure and punishment.
