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As Christians, we can have faith that the Great Commission will be accomplished.
@dr_owenanderson
explains the dangers of a "false otherwordliness" that Christians must avoid. Check it out here:
Two ASU professors tell us that free speech gives too much to the right wing. Instead, we need to trust them as experts to filter out the wrong ideas. And the wrong ideas are the right-wing ideas. And they wonder why professors are losing credibility. They said the quiet part out
When people see the content of this required training they are stunned. It is far beyond learning how to work in a diverse setting. Instead, it is about race blame, “whiteness,” and silencing those who disagree. The Goldwater Institute is representing me. Help me get the word
A popular professor at Arizona State University could face discipline—all because he won’t take the school’s DEI training.
Today, Goldwater sued ASU for using taxpayer funds to mandate DEI training among faculty—in violation of state law:
I have been speaking out about how my college at ASU has employee training classes teaching radical gender ideology and has tried to change our bylaws to include that our syllabi are evaluated by antiracist and decolonizing philosophies. I will testify before the Arizona
What does decolonizing look like? Remember, ASU administrators hold workshops on how to decolonize. And ASU honors professors call
@DennisPrager
and
@charliekirk11
“white nationalist bigots” who should not speak at ASU. Now ASU hosts a pro-Palestinian resistance rally as news
Today’s hearing before the Arizona Legislature went great. Evidence was given of harassment, intimidation, and the chilling effect for conservatives, Jews, and Christians at ASU. Now ASU must report back on how they will uphold their standards and take action against those who
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#WritersCommunity
I am happy to meet you all. I am somewhat new to Twitter, so still learning to ropes. Anyone else out there writing philosophy books?
Perfect timing. “We have an ASU professor here with us.” PragerU offers wholesome and patriotic content that parents want. You’ve been reading my posts about what the opposition wants to teach your children. Wonder why they oppose this?
@prageru
@streitmarissa
@Ann_Atkinson_AZ
Proud to cut the ribbon welcoming PragerU Kids to the state of Arizona alongside Superintendent Tom Horne of
@azedschools
🎉
Tell America you want
@PragerU
in more schools!
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ASU’s statement about the closing of the Lewis Center does nothing to address the chilling effect this has on conservatives and Christians who now know they are only welcome if they stay quiet. Read about it on my stack
Now Bill Maher can never be invited to ASU to speak. His loss 🤣. On Friday he said: “For all the progressives and academics who refer to Israel as an outpost of Western Civilization like it’s a bad thing, please note, Western Civilization is what gave the world pretty much every
ASU is back in the news about academic freedom. The Lewis Center that hosted an event with Charlie Kirk and Dennis Prager is being canceled. Honors faculty objected to having an event with heterodox ideas and silenced their opposition. Bye bye academic freedom and the exchange of
Great news. The Supreme Court rules 9-0 in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis to make it easier to sue over DEI training. I’ve had colleagues dismiss and minimize discrimination against Christians by saying it doesn’t count or it doesn’t really matter. The Supreme Court unanimously
1I need your help.Censorship is being advocated by some ASU professors. There is a letter being passed around by some ASU faculty asking for signatures to stop conversations from speaking on campus.Three of us have written our own letter in reply defending free speech and debate.
T.W. Lewis during testimony: “what ASU should have done as part of its investigation is interview 100 conservative students [and I add: plus the 3 conservative professors] and ask them what their experience at ASU is like. I suspect they will tell you they are oppressed, not
Three of the Barrett Honors College faculty who signed the letter calling Dennis Prager a white nationalist bigot replied in an opinion piece in the Az Republic. Keep in mind, these are professors who teach honors students. They expect their students to learn how to think and how
I’m walking on campus and a student is walking toward me looking at his phone. As we pass he looks up and we make eye contact. He says “no way!” and shows me his phone. He’s watching my PragerU video at that moment! We talk for a while and he tells me some of what it is like to
Next week at ASU will be the second event with Prager and Kirk titled “Health, Wealth, and Happiness.” The ASU honors faculty get a chance to correct their poor behavior and actually engage with ideas. It would be wonderful if ASU was the site of a rigorous and respectful debate
“Young people are struggling with anxiety and depression at startling rates. It is worth taking time to look at the messages these young people receive in their state education. The education that is supposed to prepare them for their future is instead teaching them they are
Here I interview Az Rep Quang Nguyen. According to leftists, he is a “white nationalist.” He tells us the story of how he grew up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, how he came to the United States, how he came to see his need for Christ, and became the first war refugee
I’m thankful to President Crow for supporting our position about free speech at ASU. Yesterday he wrote this to support us against those who would slander, harass, or retaliate against conservative speakers on campus. His position on free speech calls the 39 Barrett faculty
Conservative students, and we few conservative faculty, at Arizona’s state universities do not feel safe expressing our ideas. We often self-censor. We experience many kinds of consequences for not conforming to the radical-leftist campus climate. But the Az State Legislature is
The two ASU professors who published their concern that free speech allows in too many right wing ideas couldn’t have had better timing in making their thoughts known to the world. Tomorrow we will get to know more about whether ASU looked into evidence from students that honors
I learned in my college faculty meeting today that 72% of our students are women. They should hire experts to figure out why men don’t want to attend the contemporary secular university. By their own standards, equity demands that if the student body is not representative of the
Have you ever wondered why mainstream journalism is in such bad shape?
@CollegeFix
documents how ASU journalism students must go through mandatory DEI training with no alternative perspectives allowed.
@GoldwaterInst
posted their findings on their webpage if you’d like more
I hope you will tune in to the Az Legislature committee hearing on Tuesday. The link is below. One of the things I will mention is “the chilling effect.” What if your supervisor lets you know that your political or religious beliefs are suspect? So while I am an ASU employee, I
What would you do if your employer required you to watch training videos that teach there are infinite genders and then take a T/F quiz where the correct answers affirm that this view is indeed the fact of the matter? Let me add me to it: your employer is a state university.
As a whistleblower, help me get the word out about what is happening at ASU. The College Fix published this article today drawing attention to how some in leadership at ASU are using DEI to push their radical leftist political philosophy. Changing bylaws to include
As I read posts by Christians about politics and engaging unbelief in the world I’m realizing there is a group of Christians who think these two incompatible things:
1. It is noble and pious to lose. This is what Jesus did. After all, we are told we will be persecuted.
2.
An ASU West professor complained that GCU doesn’t have real scholars because they’re evangelicals. Read more at my stack.
@gcu
@anthonykernAZ
@QuangNguyenAZ
@azaustinsmith
“This professor did not say that GCU professors aren’t researchers. He said they aren’t scholars. And
@megbasham
All of the works of God reveal His glory. Thank you for your courage to speak out on that. Here is the link to our discussion. YouTube has already censored it by putting a note about climate change under the video.
YouTube is already censoring my interview with
@megbasham
by inserting a “climate change misinformation” tag under the video. For me, if I held a position that the despots at Alphabet and Youtube not only agreed with but a view they promoted by suppressing free speech that would
@sfmcguire79
Universities should be leading on this but they are lost. On the one hand they say they want to protect students rights to free speech but on the other their actual students can get to classes.
First day back to school at ASU. A student club calls for socialist revolution. What does it mean to call for a socialist revolution? What pain and misery did those bring to the world? Reps Nguyen and Toma know. Solzhenitsyn told us.
@SethLeibsohn
@Ann_Atkinson_AZ
Good news in the fight against religious discrimination. The school board was on record singling out Christian belief as the reason they refused to renew the contract with student teachers. They paid the price for their illegal discrimination.
Good article out today in The Atlantic. We saw an example of this at ASU’s honors college where professors refused to allow students to hear conservative, Christian, and Jewish voices. And then from two ASU administrators who published an article saying intellectual diversity is
She is standing up for free speech for all at secular universities. We must protect against the harassment and intimidation of conservatives on campus.
More of the anti-intellectual tactics. Don’t deal with the subject just dish out insults. My challenge stands: meet me in public debate and bring your ideas into the light.
Remember when 39 ASU Barrett Honors faculty said they oppose attaching the Barrett name to a conservative event? Well, they didn’t mind attaching the Barrett name to an event on how to practice witchcraft for feminism and radical healing. Read more here:
National Review has an article out today about ASU and academic freedom. I’m quoted (along with my alternative blog Twitter doesn’t like and will hide this post if I mention it) talking about how many faculty claim to be in favor of academic freedom but use insults (bigot,
This is the level of arguing that some ASU professors use to attack conservatives. Personal attacks without any substance. This one even attacks
@JohnHookfox10
simply for interviewing
@Ann_Atkinson_AZ
about the Barrett honors professors who called
@DennisPrager
a white
T.W.Lewis explains why he withdrew his funding from Barrett Honors College at ASU. Parents and potential students, consider the behavior of these honors faculty. Is this the kind of example you want from professors who are supposed to model how to act when we disagree with
The inconsistency of the secular professor. No free speech for any conservative they deem unworthy. But silent on open calls for communist revolution (hint: those were violent):
@QuangNguyenAZ
@RepBenToma
both escaped communism.
Now they’re making anonymous accounts to come after me. Quoting from the reliable “rate my professor.” They really got me I guess I better pack up. I block trolls and anonymous accounts that can’t give arguments. I’m still waiting for one argument from that side. Just one. Still
2I need this to be shared widely.The issue isn’t about who we do and not agree with politically.The issue is that a university should be a place of debate and the exchange of ideas.Those who want to shut this down use “phobia”language rather than dealing with the truth of beliefs
ASU hosting Marxist “school.” This event even uses the violent symbolism of the Marxist’s revolutions. Not even trying to hide it like professors. But ASU’s honors professors object if one event is held with Dennis Prager, a classical conservative.
@anthonykernAZ
I don’t know who wrote ASU’s media response, but it sure reads like they are saying Ms. Atkinson is being “too emotional.” They say: “ASU employee Ann Atkinson has lost the distinction between feelings and fact in her recent comments.” In some circles that is called sexism. Why
I spoke with Arizona’s Speaker of the House, representative Ben Toma, about school choice. Arizona is a leader in school choice but our Democratic Governor wants to take that away. He explains the program and answers common objections.
Ibram X. Kendi spoke at ASU and said the quiet part out loud. According to him, we don't need to convince Americans, we just need to get people into positions of power who will force these policies on everyone. I'll be on Dennis Prager today to talk about this and more.
Is Scrooge right to doubt his senses?
Marley: Why do you doubt your senses?
Scrooge: Because a little thing can effect them. A slight disorder of the stomach can make them cheat. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"
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I’m getting a question over and over about what is happening at ASU: how can these professors be making such obvious mistakes? Weren’t they trained to think and consider many different perspectives? My answer: Contempt. They have contempt for those who disagree with them. And
I’m posting a series on ASU’s DEIB training for teachers. Parents and potential students will be interested to see what ASU presents as “the fact of the matter.” You will see a few simple informal fallacies throughout. Ad hominem (people who disagree with me have a phobia), post
This new article from the
@AZFreeNews
is eye-opening. Anti-discrimination laws protect against the kind of discrimination exhibited by these professors against conservatives, Jews, and Christians. ASU and ABOR need to address this.
What happens when you require your faculty to decolonize their curriculum and teach decolonizing philosophy as the privileged view in your classes? This:
BREAKING - ASU students are reporting what appears to be anti-Israel demonstrations setting up on ASU’s Old Main lawn, across the street from the Presidents office.
How will ASU handle this? Will the demonstrations remain peaceful or will they draw inspiration from the ivy
I’ll be back on Dennis Prager’s show on Monday to talk about my college at ASU changing its bylaws to include “antiracism” and “decolonizing”. He tells me he has an audience of 2 million. 2 million people who would like to know what ASU’s New College is doing to deny academic
Leftist Professor: there are no negative health consequences for sexual immorality. Do what thou wilt is the whole of the law.
Same professor: health care means free condoms, free birth control pills, and free abortions.
As you watch university campuses devolve into chaos, you might wonder where this teaching came from that calls for the end of Israel and harasses Jewish students. It came from within my university. My own college teaches decolonizing and asked us to decolonize our classrooms. ASU
@Ann_Atkinson_AZ
They called him a white nationalist which is clearly false. That means that Barrett faculty published falsehoods about him of the kind that can harm reputation and career. What is that called?
My book “The Beginning of Philosophy” is now in an audible version on Amazon. Philosophers purport to love wisdom. But many get stuck in skepticism. They can’t tell us where wisdom begins. Can you guess?
We’ve got professors saying ASU should end the TPUSA student group. The only problem is a little thing called freedom of association. Come out next week for a great time!
@azaustinsmith
One of the best parts of my interview with Michael Knowles (it will be out in a month or so, I’ll let you know) was that we both said, without coordinating beforehand or ever talking about it, “it is clear that God exists, we can be certain of this, so that unbelief is without
“I don’t know if
@megbasham
really proved her case. She needs more evidence.”
CT: “hold my beer” (every one of their articles my feed advertises to me)
3 In our letter, I offer an open challenge to these professors to debate the value of free speech. Let’s have them being their ideas into the light of reason. Our letter has been published by a national news outlet.
#censorship
# Freespeech
I am thankful that
@RedemTheTimes
called our attention to the problems in the
@WNGdotorg
by Carl Trueman. Trueman tells us that the assassination attempt and murder of Mr. Comperatore should make us think less about the political world because it is fleeting. I reply here,
I’m honored to be one of the endorsers of the Princeton Principles for a campus culture of free enquiry. I’ve had colleagues use vulgar language about conservatives and Christians, overtly try to shut down events they disagree with, and covertly try to limit the exposure of ideas
The ASU Advance web page tells us that ASU is committed to diversity. And it even includes intellectual diversity in its list. But then it gives no examples of intellectual diversity. All of the examples it gives fit into the leftist agenda of terms like “equity.” And we know
Here is my article about one of the employee training videos ASU uses. This is presented as the fact of the matter, not as one view among others. And there is no debate or alternative perspective.