Marquette University Prof Claims He Gets ‘Anxious’ When He Sees an American Flag
“Especially considering the growth in extremism post-Trump-presidency and those extremists using the American Flag against people of color to say they’re the real Americans.”
This is a stereotype of the left, but for a good reason. It happens so often.
The College Fix reports:
American flag causes ‘anxiety’ for Marquette professor
A Marquette University professor says he gets “anxious” when he sees an American flag.
Philosophy Professor Grant Silva made the comments for a Flag Day segment yesterday on WUWM, a National Public Radio affiliate in Milwaukee.
Professor Silva (pictured) agreed with host Teran Powell when she discussed “the anxiety [Powell] had surrounded by excessive American Flags.”
“For example, I’m Black American, and over the past few years, I’ve continued to analyze what the American Flag means to me,” Powell said. “Especially considering the growth in extremism post-Trump-presidency and those extremists using the American Flag against people of color to say they’re the real Americans.”
She shared her own anxiety about seeing American flags in Illinois when she was traveling with a friend. “And both of us were like, ‘Yeah, we need to hurry up and leave. And I thought about it like, ‘why did we feel like that?”
“Black people for generations have dealt with tension with the American flag,” Powell said in her write-up of the interview. “Our feelings were nothing new. But I asked Silva what he thought and he says he’s had similar experiences.”
“I also get a little bit anxious around the excessive imagery of the flag in part because in my experience, patriotism quickly slips into nationalism,” Silva told the NPR affiliate. “Especially the simplistic version of patriotism, the flag waving, my country love it or leave it kind of attitude. That is just a hop, skip and a jump away from becoming nationalism.”
He continued:
As much as I would like to see the flag displayed in a proud manner, it all too quickly takes on the stakes that, as a non-white person, can mean a lot, right? It can mean a sense of inclusion or exclusion. A sense of belonging or the ascription of perpetual foreigner, perpetual outsider status; that that flag is not for me unless I’m willing to abide by the assimilatory paradigm that some of these individuals that you’re talking about tend to put forward.
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A perpetual victim is more like it. Get a grip,
Simple solution, professor: Leave. No one is forcing you to stay here.
Maybe your feelings are yours and not anyone else’s responsibility. Is that so hard for a grown up to understand?
Hey, Grant — GoFundMe has accepted your application for a stuffies and crayons fund.
It you don’t like the American flag, or red, white and blue, then emigrate. Just don’t select most British Commonwealth nations – they mostly have red, white and blue flags too!
And don’t opt for China as Blacks are apparently not liked there. But maybe actual racism will be a refreshing change?
So, Professor Silva’s PhD is in Philosophy, which means he couldn’t make it in a real science and is likely a Grievance Studies indoctrinator. Fortunately for him, Wisconsin, unlike California, isn’t considering charging an exit tax…yet…so he can go to Venezuela or El Salvador or somewhere else he won’t feel so “anxious.”
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t that the same flag (with the addition of a few stars) that Federal troops carried when they risked/gave their lives to end slavery about 160 years ago?
For once, could these racist soft-boiled egghead grievance mongers stop using the word salads just to make themselves sound more intelligent than they really are? Nobody is ever impressed by the $5 words, and usually the whackademics use them out of context.