{"id":3653,"date":"2023-06-19T05:06:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T05:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2023-06-19T15:33:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T15:33:34","slug":"college-professor-in-wisconsin-says-american-flag-causes-him-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3653","title":{"rendered":"College Professor in Wisconsin Says American Flag Causes Him \u2018Anxiety\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Marquette University professor said the American flag makes him \u201canxious\u201d in a National Public Radio interview Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Philosophy Professor Grant Silva told an interviewer with\u00a0WUWM<\/a>, an NPR affiliate station in Milwaukee, that he feels \u201canxious\u201d when he sees an American flag. In the interview, Silva (pictured above) described how \u201cexcessive imagery\u201d of American flags is borderline \u201cnationalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI also get a little bit anxious around the excessive imagery of the flag in part because in my experience, patriotism quickly slips into nationalism,\u201d Silva said. \u201cEspecially 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Silva also said that the flag has several different meanings and can represent \u201cexclusion\u201d for some.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs 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?\u201d Silva said. \u201cIt 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\u2019m willing to abide by the assimilatory paradigm that some of these individuals that you\u2019re talking about tend to put forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Silva resonated with radio show host Teran Powell, who discussed her own anxiety \u201ccaused\u201d by the national flag, telling the story of how she saw several American flags while traveling through Illinois and all she wanted to do was \u201churry up and leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jack Applewhite is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
\nPhoto \u201cGrant Silva\u201d by Grant Silva<\/a>. Background Photo \u201cAmerican Flag\u201d by Aaron Burden<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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