Digital Social Hour
How 39 Professors Silenced Academic Freedom | Ann Atkinson DSH #1068
07 Jan 2025
🚨 How 39 Professors Silenced Academic Freedom | A shocking expose of cancel culture in academia 🎓 Tune in as Sean Kelly sits down with Ann Atkinson to uncover the alarming truth about academic censorship! 😱 Ann shares her jaw-dropping experience at Arizona State University, where 39 professors united to silence free speech and dismantle a million-dollar program. 💸 You won't believe the extent of self-censorship and fear among students! 🤐 Discover how a simple event with successful entrepreneurs led to a full-blown cancel culture campaign. 🎤 🔥 Hot topics include: • The shocking 15:1 ratio of Democrat to Republican professors • How faculty, not students, drive cancel culture • The urgent need for syllabi transparency in universities Don't miss out on this eye-opening conversation! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly. 🚀 Join the conversation and learn how to protect academic freedom! 🗽 #AcademicFreedom #CancelCulture #HigherEducation #DigitalSocialHour #SeanKelly #currentaffairs #accountabilityculture #educationreform #futureofcollegeeducation #criticalthinking CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:26 - Amfest Event Overview 06:38 - Prolon Health Benefits 07:33 - Legal Action Discussion 11:38 - College Students' Fear of Disagreement 13:39 - Solutions for Student Concerns 18:01 - Importance of Syllabus Transparency 20:00 - Following Ann's Work APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Ann Atkinson https://x.com/ann_atkinson_az https://www.instagram.com/k.ann.atkinson/ SPONSORS: Prolon: http://prolonlife.com/DSH LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/
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orthodoxy and it's not a conservative democrat i mean a model but it's really about people that are free thinking libertarians people that value hard work that think we're all equal despite our skin color or where we're from that we all are deserving of respect if you don't subscribe to what's really the pervasive orthodoxy i mean you're you're ostracized that's insane
All right, guys. Anne Atkinson here today. We're at AmFest. Is this your first one? This is my second AmFest. I was here as a speaker last year talking about cancel culture and free speech. And this is my second annual and best AmFest. Let's go. Yeah, you went through some cancel culture yourself. So I'd love to hear more about that.
I did. You know, what's interesting about cancel culture is it stems in higher education from arbiters who appoint themselves as those that know best, right? And my experience in cancel culture came from the largest public university in the My wrongdoing was to bring Charlie Kirk and Dennis Prager and Robert Kiyosaki to have a lecture and interview on the topic of health, wealth, and happiness.
And the students didn't protest. The faculty and the deans ran an all-out condemnation campaign. So I dealt with cancel culture from within. Right. And I also got to see really the inner workings in higher ed and what should be a great university. Arizona State University should be leading in public speech and freedom of thought.
But I saw how cancel culture really works and how the radical activists from within cause people to self-censor, too. Yeah.
So there's top-down, covert, and then there's this self-censorship movement that's overt. So my personal experience went viral. It turned into a national story. And I've been very public about it and working hard to do something and get some real results so that more students to come and other faculty and staff don't face the same thing that I went through.
Absolutely. Here you are providing... three great entrepreneurs to these students to learn from and then you get canceled for it. I mean, Kiyosaki is a billionaire. I think Charlie Kirk's obviously got a huge company. We're at his event right now with 20,000 people and you get canceled. And did you lose your job over this?
I lost my job. So here's how it happened. I was the executive director of the T.W. Lewis Center for Personal Development at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University, which happens to be my alma mater. Wow. And I ran this center as really an outside entrepreneur coming into higher ed to bring the real world to these students.
Our center existed to teach entrepreneurship, career success, personal finance, self-awareness, happiness, really great. We're great, comfortable, practical topics. And we also existed to address the traditional American values of hard work, personal responsibility, faith, family, community service, and civic duty. That was very triggering to many of the faculty from within.
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