![]() 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 USA’s Charlie Kirk, Campus Reform, Campus Watch, the Proud Boys, and Ethan Ralph of the misogynist Ralph Retort, ( ). But had I been asked a week ago whether I thought my distress signal had made the least bit of difference, I would have said no, shaking my head in grief. It’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. It’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. It’s that it’s vital that we signal this truth to one another in order to create solidarity. To be clear, it’s not that we didn’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 America’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. She booted Ingle from her class for his WrongThink and “referred him to the public university’s Academic Integrity Board (AIB),” reports Fox.Guest blogger Wendy Lynne Lee is a professor of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. This did not sit well with the feminist professor. When no women spoke up, Ingle says he challenged the notion that there are more than two genders and explained that even The New York Times has debunked the myth stating the “gender wage gap” is caused by sexism. The TED Talk speaker was a transgender ex-pastor named Paula Stone Williams who discussed “the ‘reality’ of ‘mansplaining,’ ‘sexism from men,’ and ‘male privilege.'”ĭownie first asked only the women in the class to share their thoughts on the subject matter. Lake Ingle, a religious studies major at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, was kicked out of Professor Alison Downie’s Christianity class on February 28 for telling her that “biologists don’t agree that there’s more than two genders” and that the supposedly sexism-caused 23-cent “gender wage gap” is a myth.Īccording to a report from Fox News, Ingle was “silenced and punished” by Professor Downie after the senior pushed back on arguments made in a 15-min TED Talk she showed to the class. In the current year, it’s apparently permissible to ban a student from a class on Christianity for expressing inconvenient truths to a feminist professor. Student Booted From Christianity Class For Telling Professor There Are Only Two Genders
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