‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ Author Banned? | Robert Kiyosaki & Ann Atkinson | POLITICS | Rubin Report

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” author Robert Kiyosaki and Ann Atkinson, former executive director of the Lewis Center at Arizona State University, about the controversy surrounding a speaking event they participated in at the university, which led to backlash from faculty and administration. Kiyosaki and Atkinson describe the intimidation and threats they faced, as well as the subsequent investigation by the Arizona state legislature. They express their concerns about the suppression of free speech on college campuses and the need for a more open and tolerant environment.

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0:00.0	I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is investor, entrepreneur and author of Rich Dad Poor
0:13.3	Dad, former Rubin Report guest, Robert Kiyosaki, and free speech advocate and former executive,
0:20.1	I put emphasis on former executive director of the Lewis Center at Arizona State University
0:27.2	and Adkinson, Robert and Ann, welcome to the Rubin Report.
0:31.1	Thank you.
0:32.1	Thank you very much.
0:34.4	Robert, I'm going to start with you because I put emphasis on former in Ann's intro,
0:40.4	but sort of you coming to ASU is what caused the former part in her intro.
0:46.3	So why don't you set us up as to why you guys are here together and then Ann will get
0:50.8	to your involvement in this whole thing?
0:53.8	Well let me go way back in time.
0:55.6	In 1965 I read this book here, The Communist Maddo Festo, I went to military school, I'm
1:01.8	a ring knocker, and then I went to Vietnam as a marine pilot.
1:06.7	I flew these babies in Vietnam, you know, shot a lot of communist out there.
1:14.1	And then I came walking home, you know, Johnny comes marching home again, hurrah hurrah,
1:18.3	I got spit on, hit with eggs at North and Air Force Base, just north of San Francisco,
1:23.9	interesting isn't it?
1:25.8	And I'm afraid what's happened to America is we have gone Marxist.
1:30.6	And so when Ann invited me to Arizona State University, which is the largest university
1:34.9	in America, I said no way, I'm not going.
1:39.3	Just because I such a bad experience at the University of Hawaii, I got spit on there
1:44.6	too.
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