When Alexia Isais’s phone registered a Blue Alert earlier this fall,
informing her that there had been an attack on a local police officer,
she quickly tweeted her reaction. “They can all go fall into the abyss
and society would be better without them,” she wrote.
Isais, a political science student at Arizona State University, is known
for being outspoken. “As a Mexican American woman, I have a right to
object to conditions and institutions that have ruined people’s lives,”
she told/Truthout/. Among her most frequent subjects: Police abuse,
racism and white supremacy.
Reaction to her tweet was swift. Isais was immediatelyfired
<https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2020/09/26/firing-of-asu-state-press-columnist-alexia-isais-spurs-community-backlash/3534865001/>from
her job as a columnist at/The State Press/, Arizona State University’s
student newspaper, and she received dozens of menacing emails, phone
calls, tweets, texts and Facebook messages such as “Go to hell, you
Communist whore” and “I will make sure your family regrets having had you.”
https://truthout.org/articles/campus-reform-is-funneling-koch-money-to-groom-right-wing-journalists/
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