A social media petition demanding her firing was circulated. Stories appeared in mainstream venues such as Fox News and the Daily Mail (UK), as well as various recyclings in Breitbart News, The Ralph Retort, Campus Reform, and further down the dark corners of the web. The student went to the conservative media, which climbed all over the story. Another student in the class offered a very different take on what happened, but the story the student told was that he was disciplined for saying there are only two genders. Downie sought to silence him for his conservative/unpopular/politically incorrect opinions, and when he would not be silenced, she excluded him from class as part of unfair disciplinary action against him. The conservative student’s version of the story is that, in a discussion on transgender issues, Dr. The nightmare engulfing Alison Downie began with a conflict in her “Self, Sin, and Salvation” class. (I tell her story with her express permission.) She thought that based on my own experience I might be able to advise her as to what she should do. Downie described herself as the subject of a right-wing social media harassment campaign initiated by an aggrieved student against whom she had taken a disciplinary action. Professor Alison Downie of Indiana University of Pennsylvania reached out to me. In late March, I received an email of a type that has become all too common in my experience. David Gushee, president of the American Academy of Religion, to reflect on her story and its implications for scholars of religion today. Alison Downie, an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, who earlier this year became a target of right-wing media and other attacks when a student publicly accused her of unfairly disciplining him for expressing his opinions (" How a Student Got Kicked Out of Class - and Became a Conservative Hero," May 31).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |