Today is ASU’s Giving Day. Here’s what they want from you: more.
ASU already gets your tax dollars. They get your tuition money—about $30,000 a year for many students. Now, they’re asking you to donate even more.
What are you funding? A university system where students are taught to divide themselves into identity groups and blame others—usually based on race, sex, or history—for the hardships in their lives.
In the Giving Day email, ASU highlighted a former student as a success story for having divided people based on race. This was presented as a good thing. Let that sink in.
Every ASU school and institute is asking for money today. The one that caught my attention was the ASU Humanities Institute. Their email invited donors to “impact causes you care about” as exemplified in their current fellows. They shard a link to check out. So I did. I took a screenshot of the page.
What do you notice?
It's a who’s who of identity politics. Every project is framed around race, gender, or sexual ideology—with the clear message that this is what matters now. They fund projects like the much needed “The Transgender Joke Book.”
No, I’m not joking.
So let’s be honest: they’re asking you to pay for their ideological commitments.
You pay through taxes.
You pay through tuition.
And now they’ve got their hand out again.
The real question is: Why would anyone support these projects?
What exactly are we investing in—virtue and wisdom or grievance and division?
You decide.
What Should the Humanities Be Doing?
Not this.
The humanities—especially fields like philosophy, literature, history, and religion—should not be dividing students into identity groups and teaching them to resent or blame others based on race and sex. They should be uniting students in the pursuit of truth, wisdom, and virtue.
A real humanities course, especially in philosophy, starts by introducing students to the questions they’ve already begun to ask in life, even if they haven’t had the tools to articulate them:
What is real?
What is of highest value?
How can I know any of this?
The professor’s role is to introduce the various answers given across history, how these views have interacted, and how they’ve been challenged. Then the student learns to reason coherently, to form logical arguments, and to engage critically—not just with the past, but with the present. The student can then critique what came before, articulate their own view, and offer reasons for it as they pursue meaning.
Compare that to what ASU’s Humanities Institute is offering. Professors don’t lead students through the questions—they tell them the answers. The professor’s beliefs about identity or sexuality are taken as the truth of matter and the student is expected to go along with that.
Sex? It’s anything you want it to be.
Disagree? Believe that sex is created by God for marriage? You’re a heteronormative oppressor.
Students are then shamed and bullied into agreement, not by evidence or reasoning, but by classroom power dynamics. This isn’t education. It’s indoctrination. It’s the weaponization of the humanities to push an ideology while silencing debate.
So the question must be asked:
Can ASU humanities be restored to their true purpose, or are they too far down the Devil’s path to turn back?
The stakes are high. And the soul of the university hangs in the balance.
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