{"id":996031,"date":"2021-11-10T20:29:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T01:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=996031"},"modified":"2021-11-10T20:29:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T01:29:22","slug":"usc-professor-refuses-to-remove-pro-police-flag-despite-student-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usc-professor-refuses-to-remove-pro-police-flag-despite-student-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"USC Professor Refuses To Remove Pro-Police Flag Despite Student Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fusc-professor-refuses-to-remove-pro-police-flag-despite-student-protest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=996031&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A professor of engineering and policy at the University of Southern California is refusing to remove a pro-police flag from his office door despite protests from students.<\/p>\n<p>USC professor James Moore has had the flag, an American flag with a \u201cthin blue line,\u201d on his door since the beginning of the fall semester \u2014 but he has recently come under fire for it. Moore told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/usc-professor-refuses-to-remove-blue-lives-matter-flag-from-door-blue-lives-protect-black-lives\/\">The College Fix<\/a> in an interview that he first received a complaint from a university administrator who called him and suggested that he take the flag down. Then, last week, an article in the university\u2019s campus newspaper, the Daily Trojan, labeled the display a \u201ccontroversy,\u201d quoting several students who called the flag \u201cinappropriate\u201d and demanded the flag be taken down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an inappropriate and unnecessary symbol to have on an office door where USC is, within the last year or two, trying to have a much broader diversity initiative and to be inclusive, especially in the STEM area,\u201d one USC graduate student told the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailytrojan.com\/2021\/11\/09\/professors-blue-lives-matter-flag-causes-controversy\/\">school newspaper<\/a>. The student also said that after he first saw the flag in October, he voiced his concerns to the Dean of USC\u2019s Viterbi School of Engineering and Office of Equity and Diversity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want them to take it down, and I want them to do something about Professor Moore because this is not the first controversial thing he\u2019s done,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n<p>The students went on to accuse Moore of trolling, citing an instance in 2018 where he responded to a campus event called \u201cCoffee and Title IX,\u201d reminding students: \u201cIf the day comes you are accused of some crime or tort of which you are not guilty, and you find your peers automatically believing your accuser, I expect you find yourself a stronger proponent of due process protections than you are now. Accusers sometimes lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moore told The College Fix he was not trolling and defended himself from the criticism. \u201cIt\u2019s important,\u201d Moore said. \u201cBlue lives protect black lives, and black lives are not at risk from the police \u2014 they are at risk from crime \u2014 and it\u2019s blue lives that stand between them and crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moore listed three reasons for hanging the flag outside his office door: First, to dispute the idea that police are the biggest statistical threat to black people; second, to honor a police detective family member who recently retired; and third, to raise awareness that the murder rate in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A professor of engineering and policy at the University of Southern California is refusing to remove a pro-police flag from his office door despite protests from students.USC professor James Moore has had the flag, an American flag with a \u201cthin blue line,\u201d on his door since the beginning of the fall semester \u2014 but he has recently come under fire for it. Moore told\u00a0The College Fix in an interview that he first received a complaint from a university administrator who called him and suggested that he take the flag down. Then, last week, an article in the university\u2019s campus newspaper, the Daily Trojan, labeled the display a \u201ccontroversy,\u201d quoting several students who called the flag \u201cinappropriate\u201d and demanded the flag be taken down.\u201cThis is an inappropriate and unnecessary symbol to have on an office door where USC is, within the last year or two, trying to have a much broader diversity initiative and to be inclusive, especially in the STEM area,\u201d one USC graduate student told the school newspaper. The student also said that after he first saw the flag in October, he voiced his concerns to the Dean of USC\u2019s Viterbi School of Engineering and Office of Equity and Diversity.\u201cI want them to take it down, and I want them to do something about Professor Moore because this is not the first controversial thing he\u2019s done,\u201d said another.The students went on to accuse Moore of trolling, citing an instance in 2018 where he responded to a campus event called \u201cCoffee and Title IX,\u201d reminding students: \u201cIf the day comes you are accused of some crime or tort of which you are not guilty, and you find your peers automatically believing your accuser, I expect you find yourself a stronger proponent of due process protections than you are now. Accusers sometimes lie.\u201dMoore told The College Fix he was not trolling and defended himself from the criticism. \u201cIt\u2019s important,\u201d Moore said. \u201cBlue lives protect black lives, and black lives are not at risk from the police \u2014 they are at risk from crime \u2014 and it\u2019s blue lives that stand between them and crime.\u201dMoore listed three reasons for hanging the flag outside his office door: First, to dispute the idea that police are the biggest statistical threat to black people; second, to honor a police detective family member who recently retired; and third, to raise awareness that the murder rate in the United States has spiked 30% in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death and the rise of the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement.In a statement to the Daily Trojan, USC said it did not have a policy prohibiting the flag and stated its commitment to academic freedom. \u201cThe university does not have a policy that limits the display of materials in spaces like this, though we are looking at whether it is needed,\u201d the university said. \u201cAs part of the university\u2019s commitment to academic freedom, a faculty member can express his or her individual beliefs and viewpoints on a wide variety of topics \u2013 even controversial issues \u2013 but they do not speak on behalf of a school or the broader university.\u201d\u201cWe are in an environment where there is a lot of homogenization of ideas, and diversity should include diversity of ideas,\u201d Moore said. \u201cThis [USC] is supposed to be a safe space for diversity of thought. We are charging people very good money to teach them to think. I am just trying to deliver.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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