{"id":386,"date":"2006-01-16T13:21:37","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T21:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/01\/pretend-nazi\/"},"modified":"2006-01-16T13:21:37","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T21:21:37","slug":"pretend-nazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/01\/pretend-nazi\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretend Nazi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Chronicle<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/daily\/2006\/01\/2006011603n.htm\">Fired Professor Now Says He Became a Neo-Nazi Only to Do Research for a Book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week the literary world got a double dose of scandal with revelations of two high-profile fabrications: Memoirist James Frey&#8217;s past, it turns out, is considerably duller than his books suggest; and novelist JT Leroy, it appears, does not exist at all.<\/p>\n<p>Now the academic world has yielded up its own fabrication, this one involving neo-Nazis, a white supremacist radio show, a professor&#8217;s firing, and a flap over academic freedom. But this time the unmasking was self-inflicted.<\/p>\n<p>Last March, Jacques Pluss was fired from his job as an adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University soon after it came to light that he was a prominent member of the National Socialist Movement of the United States. This weekend, in an online essay titled <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/articles\/20313.html\">&#8220;Now It Can Be Told: Why I Pretended to Be a Neo-Nazi,&#8221;<\/a> Mr. Pluss purports to reveal his true intentions in joining the white supremacist group: He did it all for scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: Fired Professor Now Says He Became a Neo-Nazi Only to Do Research for a Book Last week the literary world got a double dose of scandal with revelations of two high-profile fabrications: Memoirist James Frey&#8217;s past, it turns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/01\/pretend-nazi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}