A Witch Hunt Comes For A Young Professor (Noah Carl)

This is what the progressive/PC left is doing to academia.
And academia is basically their proving ground. It's where they're strongest. What you see in academia today is what they'll push in the rest of the culture as soon as they are sufficiently powerful. What? You think they'll be held back by their commitment to liberal principles of free inquiry and speech?
In fact, of course, they're already doing it elsewhere.
Back when we used to have liberals, they'd be grabbing their pens and assembling on the village green, fixin' to defend truth, justice, and the 'Merican way...back when we used to have 'em...
Klein summarizes the progressive M-O:

Sling epithets (“racist,” etc.);
Create a strawman;
Create outlandish stereotypes;
Misrepresent what the target of the takedown says, for example by representing a “sometimes” statement as an “always” or “never” statement;
Level accusations too vague or incoherent to confute;
Say that the target’s views are “extremist;”
Ascribe base motives to the target’s words or deeds;
Treat civil discussion or mere contact as suspicious “collaboration;”
Pass along rumors of such “collaboration;”
Presume guilt instead of innocence;
Do not let the targeted speak or face his assailants;
Do not allow anyone to voice opposition;
Ignore or misrepresent counter-argumentation;
Mobilize mobbism;
Deplatform or no-platform those who pose a challenge to leftism.

We often go wrong by focusing on political factions being anti-science. But that's irrationally restricted. What's important is being anti-reason--being against rational inquiry of whatever form. Being anti-science is just one species of being anti-reason. Misology, as my friend Dan used to say. The contemporary progressive left is misologistic. Not each and every progressive. But, rather, the movement overall, as it appears currently, on the public stage. That's what political correctness is: subordinating rational inquiry to political dogma.
   As I often say that Instapundit* often says: you may not be interested in the gleichshaltung, but the gleichshaltung is interested in you...