Professor Ordered To Take Down ‘Offensive’ Flag His Response Is Brilliant

After hanging a Thin Blue Line flag on his door, a university professor received orders from his students to remove the offensive banner. Unfortunately for them, his response wasn’t what they expected.

As a professor of engineering and policy at the University of Southern California, James Moore is constantly studying statistics. Naturally, one of the statistical subjects that have garnered the most controversy is that of police shootings involving racial minorities.

Since numerous college campuses are saturated with anti-police propaganda, creating a singular viewpoint, Moore felt it was his responsibility to push back against this unchallenged narrative. As such, students arrived one morning to find a simple but clear message draped across their professor’s door.

Moore had hung a large Thin Blue Line flag, also known as a Blue Lives Matter flag, on his office door. Almost immediately, Moore faced demands to remove the flag. His response: he won’t even consider taking it down because he wants students to realize that there are other views outside of their progressive bubble and that they actually hold the minority viewpoint outside of academia. As a statistician, Moore explained that he hung the flag to counter the belief that black people have a higher risk of police violence. In fact, he wants to communicate the fact that most black people do not want the police defunded and that they benefit the most from police presence. 

Of course, it was only a matter of time before outraged students took their grievances to the university staff. Graduate student Shai Porat filed a complaint with the dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering and USC’s Office of Equity. However, he was shocked when both offices replied that Moore has the right to hang the symbol on his office door.

Resolved to censor Moore, Porat and graduate student Maricarmen Pachicano called on the university to change its policy to include control of faculty members’ office spaces.

True to form, progressive students are attempting to paint Moore as a racist and a supporter of white supremacy. In fact, they are ignoring the fact that most minorities want a stronger police presence to combat crime and that a large percentage of those in law enforcement are minorities themselves.

Despite students’ demands, the university cannot fully censor Moore, and he knows it. As such, he feels it is important to show students that theirs isn’t the only opinion that exists.

James Moore has seen the fascism that shuts down other viewpoints in academia, and he understands the harm it does to students by keeping them sheltered from the free exchange of ideas. Thankfully, he is introducing his students to other opinions so that they aren’t emotionally incapable of hearing other views.

Until the university caves to the cry of the mob, Moore will continue to push back against academia’s intolerance of diversity of thought. His response proves that there are still academics who aren’t trying to indoctrinate students with just one way of thinking.