I shared with you that the day after the election, the director of my School at ASU’s New College forwarded an email to the faculty telling us not to use ASU email or resources to talk about the election results as either good or bad. Could the faculty in my School listen? Of course not, why would you ask that?
I’ll have a number of wonderful emails to share with you to get a look into the minds of ASU West Humanities professors. I always remove their names, but these emails are public domain as we are public employees using state resources and money.
The first response was from the professor who thinks that Evangelicals can’t be real professors. He’s also the one that had a special friendship with our last director and so was given time during a faculty meeting to attack me and my dangerous Substack (I’ve got the video, I’ll share it sometime without any faces). I asked for equal time for a rebuttal but was refused.
After being told not to use ASU emails to comment negatively on the election results, he immediately replied with this:
“Thanks for passing along this helpful reminder. Do you happen to know if our colleagues in the Koch-funded Liberty Centers have been similarly informed? It’s a source of solace, even in these dark days, to discover that ‘the university position is apolitical’.”
It’s particularly funny since he seems to forget that the Koch brothers were anti-Trump, they shared TDS. If you read this Los Angeles Times article (link) you will read about what program our Humanities professor is so scared about.
It is a program at ASU in the history department that teaches about economics and civics in the history department. It has two faculty members. Two, in the history department of approximately 70 professors who are all otherwise on the radical left teaching about social justice and Kinseyian revisionist history. There are even some self-proclaimed Marxists in there who don’t try to hide the fact. Get this straight: The Los Angeles Times, and this humanities professor, is worried about two professors who ten years ago took anti-Trump money.
The tone of the professor’s quote implies that ASU has been pro-conservative rather than neutral. That is the level of paranoia and lack of self-knowledge you find on the radical left. They don’t see that they vastly outnumber any conservatives and Christians in the secular academy, that they force conservatives to self-censor and live through the chilling effect, that faculty meetings are used for radical leftist ideologies, their classrooms are their personal playground to teach these ideologies, but they’re worried about two professors who teach civics and economics. Well run for the hills—the feds are coming!
ASU is right to begin an attempt to neutrality. But ASU has a lot of garbage to clean up and boundaries to set before it can say with a serious face, and not as dry sarcasm, “we are politically neutral.” Unless these professors, and the ones who wrote the next emails I’ll be sharing, are actually told there will be consequences for the misuse of ASU and state resources, they will have no reason whatsoever to stop.
What can you do? Remember that professors at ASU West’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies are political partisans who use their classrooms to teach Marxist history, and the Alfred Kinsey/John Money sex philosophy. Do you want to send your kids into that?
Only complete hegemony will satisfy these folks.