Texas history professor fired for discussing ... history.
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2022
- Press release: www.thefire.org/lawsuit-a-his...
More about this case: www.thefire.org/cases/collin-...
On March 8, 2022, history professor Michael Phillips sued Collin College, its president, H. Neil Matkin, and other university officials for violating his constitutional rights by firing him for talking about history and criticizing the college’s COVID-19 policies.
Represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Phillips is the third professor to sue Collin College for muzzling faculty criticism, and the fourth, since January 2021, to be fired for criticizing the college’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I never dreamed I would teach at a college where I would be ordered to not share facts, particularly life-saving ones, with my students,” said Phillips. “We should model for our students how to hear speech and ideas we don’t like, skills necessary for participating in a democracy. Collin College is denying students that lesson.”
In August 2017, Collin College and Matkin began their unconstitutional campaign against the professor. Phillips, an expert in race relations in Dallas, authored an open letter in the Dallas Morning News on behalf of a group of historians, calling for the removal of Confederate monuments in Dallas. In the letter, Phillips identified himself as a professor at Collin College. As a result, administrators summoned Phillips to a meeting and told him that the letter violated college policy because it “made the college look bad,” and mentioned Phillips’s affiliation with the college.
Public colleges violate the First Amendment rights of their professors by retaliating against them for speaking on public issues. This is exactly what Collin College, Matkin, and college administrators did to Phillips and other faculty members. In his lawsuit, Phillips challenges the constitutionality of the policies used by the college to justify his termination.
#StudentRights #FirstAmendment
My first instinct is "what goes around comes around" because this is the only case I have ever heard of someone called out for agreeing with the powered narrative, but I don't want to sink to their level. We should protect his rights to speak his mind and share his voice.
I find your comment ambiguous. What, in your view, is the _"powered narrative"_ ? And _whose_ level do you not want to sink to?
I don't agree with him about masks, from a scientific perspective (industrial hygeine, microbiology, virology etc), but I do think it's wrong that he should be fired for his opinion, and teaching history from that perspective.
I don't agree that he was "fired" by the college, they just didn't extent his contract, and we only have his opinion as to why his contract was not extended. Bad video.
@@nuqwestr bullshit. I've used "non-renewal" or "non-extension" in business, to end a business relationship, and I don't like it.
When I used it, I would have been justified to terminate the agreement otherwise, b/c of the other parties demonstrable violations, but I saw how easily I could have abused this legal mechanism. It sure is cheaper than going to court.
"Renewable contracts" have been taking the place of more durable agreements, and leave the lesser party open to fickle retaliation.
I'm not saying they should never be used. They're great when both parties have an interest in keeping their options open, but they're being used more often in situations where the relationship, by it's nature, ought to be somewhat more durable, like a tenure-track position at a college.
Everything can't be gig-work.
@@montycantsin8861 "Bullshit", but I don't disagree with you, only in the "Professor" calling it being "Fired" in this video, which is very slim on fact and context. Something is wrong with FIRE, I've noticed a change, has it been "captured"? There's a difference between public and private educational institutions when it comes to employment. Did the professor seek employment at this college? Did he know in advance their policies? We just don't know from this video. FIRE is failing us.
@@chipcook5346 Yes, he did say that. Do you believe him? And why?
@@chipcook5346 You only know what he told you. I never commented on "masks" at all. The video presents only a single SUBJECTIVE source. FIRE should do/be better.
So, just a little background for anyone curious about if this guy has done anything.........less then stellar. So apparently he's one of those guys that likes getting rid of statues and apparently is well known on campus for constantly criticizing one of the school's higher ups. And for what it's worth the school has not said why he is not being renewed. Meaning it could easily be for something completely different then suggesting people wear masks. Just a little context there.
I agree, this video was not "impartial", all we got was his opinion that he was "fired" but no evidence of it except his word, FIRE should fix this.
Thank you. There is always more to the story. But everyone is entitled to legal representation.
@@cconroy1677 Who said they are not?
Woooow he likes to take down statues of people who are worshipped for being slave owning racists his track record is less than stellar
@@anandramaswamy9810 why would anyone care about racism? Now you're just being political.
"Collin College is a public community college district in Texas." - Wikipedia “To further ensure that no governmental entity can mandate masks, the following requirement shall continue to apply: No governmental entity, including a county, city, school district, and public health authority, and no governmental official may require any person to wear a face-covering or to mandate that other person wear a covering.” - Texas emergency order. So the question is, was the professor merely advocating masks within his First Amendment rights, or did he cross over into applying pressure to students who disagreed with him?
If civil rights don't apply to EVERYONE they aren't rights.
Suing? ahahahahahahahahahahahhahah......breath.....hahahahahahahahahahahha.
He is apparently a non-tenured professor on a contract. The college has no obligation to renew the contract.
This is the "but it's a private company!" retardation of the right.
You'd work at a concentration camp if they paid well enough.
Thank you for your work.
Professor Phillips, I'm so glad that FIRE has your back.
The sad truth is he is right about this but precedent has already been set by Universities and teachers a few years ago. This fight has long passed.. Many teachers and professors have already lost their careers because of their viewpoint and there has been zero support from colleges and media for these teachers… It was only a matter of time before the grassroots movement of speech changed directions.. Look at twitter.. Anything that becomes counter culture must and will be assimilated into marketing by your biggest capitalistic entities…. When conservatism becomes counterculture to mainstream culture it will soon be the marketing viewpoint of big institutions like Collin College, twitter, facebook ect.. He is experiencing the ‘cancel culture’ that so many have experienced in the last few years.
we don't have the right to speak, anymore
No "facts" were presented here that I can hold onto, I support FIRE, but this video did not contain substance, just NLP. Stop.
The video was discussing his firing, that was the topic and those were the facts. Stop.
@@MrSerpico145 He introduced himself as a professor at the college, so he is still there, that's not how I define "fired". He said the college would not extend his contract, so it was the professor himself who categorized it as "fired", which is disingenuous. The video makes no sense, it's incoherent, and I learned nothing of value from it, except that FIRE needs to be fixed.
Typical atheist
As long as he didn’t coerce anyone to wear one, thereby infringing on their constitutionally protected rights as Americans and consumers of his product/service. Everyone is welcome at the counter and the front of the bus. Jew, Black, unvacc’d, we are all equal.
He's wrong, but he should be allowed to speak about history in his class.
Bravo Professor
Why? Do you know something not presented in this video?