Posted on 07/19/2023 5:46:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In February, I was invited along with Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), and Robert Kiyosaki, author of the bestseller, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” to speak at Arizona State University (ASU) at a conference titled “Health, Wealth and Happiness.”
The invitation came from the TW Lewis Center for Personal Development, an independent center affiliated with Barrett College, the honors college of ASU.
About a week before the scheduled event, 34 (Ann Atkinson — see below — counted 39) of Barrett College’s 47 faculty members signed a letter to the dean of ASU condemning the event on grounds that Charlie Kirk and I are “white nationalist provocateurs … purveyors of hate who have publicly attacked women, people of color, the LGBTQ community, [and] institutions of our democracy.”
In June, in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that went viral, the then-director of the Lewis Center, Ann Atkinson, wrote, “The faculty protests extended beyond the letter. Professors spent precious class time denouncing the program.”
In addition, the “administration’s position … was no secret. All advertising about ‘Health, Wealth, and Happiness’ was scrubbed from campus walls and digital flyers. Behind closed doors, deans pressured me to postpone the event indefinitely. I was warned that if the speakers made any political statements, it wouldn’t be in the Lewis Center’s ‘best interests,’ which I interpreted as a threat.”
The consequences?
“The faculty’s illiberal tantrum was devastatingly effective on two fronts,” Atkinson wrote.
“First, the scare tactics worked on undergraduates. Many students told me they were intimidated by professors into not attending. Some would attend only if we promised that cameras wouldn’t face the audience…
“Second, the event cost its organizers dearly. Shortly after ‘Health, Wealth, and Happiness,’ Lin Blake, the events operations manager at ASU Gammage Theater, was fired…
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The left is getting more forceful in their assaults on conservatives. I can see it escalating at a much faster rate right now.
Don’t feel bad. ASU is really nothing more than a year round party summer camp. It’s spring break there all the time.
I “know” some ASU females.
The original “girls gone wild.” My granddaughter was raised in Surprise, AZ. She graduated and got her masters at University of Arizona in Tucson. She wanted no part of ASU. She said she wanted to take going to college seriously.
The only thing the Left fears more than fair elections is free speech.
Who needs to escalate when nobody ever fights back.
The real news here is: ASU has an honors college?
Well Denis, if the left are falling all to pieces simply because you want to speak, then you are doing something right - keep exposing the left
They were all…free spirits…
Good on your granddaughter. UF parties, but not so much the ChemE and EE majors.
“The left is getting more forceful in their assaults on conservatives. I can see it escalating at a much faster rate right now.”
If we don’t fight back now, at some point we won’t be able to. The future of the world truly depends on the outcome of the 2024 election. It would have happened in 2020, but Trump beat Clinton in 2016 to delay the impending authoritarian takeover by the far left.
This is how fascists roll
Redux of Germany 1930’s
At first glance; I saw ‘got her masters’ as ‘got her mattress’...glad to see she was taking college seriously, unlike many young women.
I know every generation claims they had the best years when they were young, but the way things are going, I KNOW my generation had the best!!!!
“The left is getting more forceful in their assaults on conservatives.”
Well, they’re about to put the country’s number one conservative in prison so...yeah, I would say you’re right.
Prohibit federal student loans to ASU. Cancel all research grants. Cut it all off.
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