Arizona State University (ASU)’s Barrett Honors College is sponsoring a “Health, Wealth & Happiness” panel discussion on February 8 featuring Rich Dad Poor Dad bestselling author Robert Kiyosaki, conservative leaders Dennis Prager and Charlie Kirk, and wellness expert Dr. Radha Gopalan. Most of the faculty at Barrett — 37 of 47 members as of February 2 — denounced Kiyosaki, Prager, and Kirk in a February 1 letter addressed to the dean. Kiyosaki spoke to The Arizona Sun Times about the criticism.
“If they picket me, this won’t be the first time I’ve been received like this,” he said. Kiyosaki served in the Marines as a gunship pilot during the Vietnam War, and when he returned home, protesters targeted him and his fellow Marines and spat on them. Kiyosaki has written over 26 books related to finance, and Rich Dad Poor Dad is the best-selling personal finance book of all time.
The faculty letter stated, “We, the undersigned Barrett faculty, write to condemn the ‘Health, Wealth, and Happiness’ event the TW Lewis Center for Personal Development is scheduled to host on February 8th, 2023, and to express a vote of no confidence in the leadership of the Lewis Center.” The letter specifically objected to Kiyosaki, “Our concerns with the appearance of Robert Kiyosaki, whose key claims in his bestselling book have been widely debunked and whose public speaking engagements on wealth generation have been exposed as sales schemes, at the 2/8 event are in this vein.”
The faculty members reserved their harshest words for Praeger and Kirk, referring to them as “two white nationalist provocateurs,” “bigoted,” “purveyors of hate,” “extreme anti-intellectual,” and stating “they regularly attack our democracy, promoting ‘the big lie’ about the 2020 election,” listing the titles of numerous negative articles about the pair.
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