A history professor advocated for removing Confederate statues. Then his college fired him.

Today, 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.

via go.thefire.org

Eesh.