ALISON DOWNIE PROFESSOR FREE

Twice I was wounded and shed my blood for this country. I was a Marine who completed three combat tours in Iraq. What baffles me, is why parents would spend thousands and thousands of dollars just to have their kids indoctrinated with liberal ideology? If you want your kids to not develop their own political beliefs and opinions, to not think for their selves, and to just drink the Jim Jones Kool-Aid, save yourself some money and just have your kids sit at home and watch CNN or MSNBC for eight hours a day. Bloomsburg University Professor Wendy Lee decided to put these signs up in the window of her classroom yesterday. So this is how my college university rocks out. What ignited a Facebook firestorm appears toВ have been a post created by a man claiming to be a student marine-someone who, because heвЂ™s a student, has very likely walked past and seen that flag for at least the entire semester if not since November, 2016. On Monday, March 26 th my unnoticed dissent exploded into a conflagration of verbal assault, threats, in-person harassment,В character assassination, and most importantly a concerted effort by my university administration to intimidate me into taking down the flag. After all, this is a university campus, the marketplace of ideas, a fulcrum of debate, one of the last bastions in our country where freedom of speech really matters-a last bastion under relentless assault by Alt-Right drones like Turning Point USAвЂ™s Charlie Kirk, Campus Reform, Campus Watch, the Proud Boys, and Ethan Ralph of the misogynist Ralph Retort, ( ). But had I been asked a weekВ ago whether I thought my distress signal had made the least bit of difference, I would have said no, shaking my head in grief.

ItвЂ™s been accompanied by other signage in protest of the Trump regime. It hung there without a peep of displeasure from any quarter until March of 2018, without even acknowledgement.

I thus took the American flag I had from home and hung it upside down in my office window at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, a window that looks directly out onto the campus quad.

ALISON DOWNIE PROFESSOR FREE

ItвЂ™s critically important that we make examples of ourselves as teachers and citizens to our students that we care deeply about the role of the academy in a free society. ItвЂ™s that itвЂ™s vital that we signal this truth to one another in order to create solidarity. To be clear, itвЂ™s not that we didnвЂ™t know this to be true we did, and we do. I understood it was my duty to signal to my fellows in as public a way as I could that the country was now confronted with an existential threat. I understood what this election meant for the pursuit of the very idea of a democratic republic. I understood that white nationalists, anti-Semites, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBTQ bigots would be emboldened. I understood what it meant for education. I understood what it meant for the ongoing oppression of AmericaвЂ™s indigenous peoples. I understood what it meant for peoples and places in the developing world. I understood what it meant for the environment, especially the climate. I understood what it meant for the struggle for social and racial justice. But I was also clear-headed and I understood then, just as I do now, what his presidency meant. On the morning after the 2016 election of Donald Trump many of us were bleary some were despairing, and I was both. Children: Alison, Catherine, Barbara.Guest blogger Wendy Lynne Lee is a professor of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Royal Society of Arts British Medical Association

Fellow Royal Society Edinburgh, Royal Society of Arts. Interpreter Intelligence Corps, 1955-1957. Visiting Professor Syracuse University, United States of America 1963-1964, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia 1976.

Lecturer in Moral Philosophy, Glasgow University 1959-1968, Senior Lecturer 196869, Professor since 1969. Bachelor of Philosophy, Queen's College University, Oxford, 1959. Master of Arts, Glasgow University, 1955. Fellow Royal Society Edinburgh, Royal Society of Arts member British Medical Association.Дownie, Robert Silcock was born on Apin Glasgow, Scotland. Robert Silcock Downie, British moral philosophy educator.

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