Grey Matter: Social Media Weaponized Against Professors – Professor Frances Widdowson

When did wokeism begin capturing academic institutions? Find out from someone on the inside.

When she first started noticing politically-correct totalitarianism creeping into the halls of academia in the early 90s, Professor Frances Widdowson made a point of asking respectful questions and stating truth. In this conversation with Leighton Grey, Frontier Senior Fellow, she details her recent firing from Mount Royal University for not being agreeable to the woke narrative and what the path forward might be to revive academic freedom, and health to campus’ worldwide. (1 hour 15 minutes)

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