The IUP student claims Downie has exhibited “overall abuse” in the classroom, “indoctrinating” students and refusing to hear, let alone teach, dissenting views. She booted Ingle from her class for his WrongThink and “referred him to the public university’s Academic Integrity Board (AIB),” reports Fox. 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. "Instead of being the purveyor of your ideology, you can be an educator.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. "When you see that kind of misuse of intellectual power, you want to be the person that comes back and does it responsibly and with morals," he said. Ingle's career goal is to become a university professor, where he hopes to help restore ideological balance to academia. The pair met with the university Academic Integrity Board last Friday a final ruling on his status is set for March 19.
"I think this is all an attempt to silence my views personally because they contradict the ones she pushes in class so evidently."Ī religious studies major, Ingle needs to complete Downie's course in order to graduate in May. "It is my firmest belief that every human being has the freedom and right to identify, dress and represent oneself as they see fit," he added. "So, she took it on herself to silence and embarrass me - bully me - for speaking up in class." "My professor is violating my First Amendment rights because of the fact that my views and ideology is different from hers," Ingle told Fox News.
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Ingle is accusing Downing of violating his free speech rights. On March 8, Lake will begin class with an apology to the class for his behavior and then listen in silence as the professor and/or any student who wishes to speak shares how he or she felt during Lake's disrespectful and disruptive outbursts on February 28. He will explain the importance of an atmosphere of safety for an educational environment, acknowledge how his class behavior has significantly damaged this classroom atmosphere and explain how he will demonstrate respect for the professor, the course material and all fellow students at each remaining class session. Lake will write an apology to the professor, which specifically addresses each of the disrespectful behaviors described above, demonstrating ability to take responsibility for inappropriate behavior which has significantly damaged the learning environment of this course.
of professor's personal prejudice."įollowing the suspension, Indiana University Provost Timothy Moerland issued a letter requiring Ingle to apologize to his fellow students and then listen as they describe how his comment made them feel: She filed an official complaint, accusing Ingle of "disrespectful objection," "refusal to stop talking out of turn," "angry outbursts in response to being required to listen to a trans speaker discuss the reality of white male privilege and sexism," "disrespectful references to the validity of trans identity and experience" and "disrespectful claim. My professor is violating my First Amendment rights because of the fact that my views and ideology are different from hers.ĭownie, whose academic focus is "Christian feminist theology," responded the next day by kicking Ingle out of class.
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