Canceled & Fired: UCF Professor Charles Negy Fights Back

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Dr. Peter Boghossian

Mar 26, 2023
Associate Professor of Psychology Charles Negy was canceled by an online mob for “offensive” speech on Twitter in June 2020. Within weeks, the University of Central Florida (UCF) launched an investigation, firing him six months later. In 2022, an arbitrator ruled that UCF did not have just cause for the termination and Negy was reinstated.

In this interview with Peter Boghossian, Negy details his experience with university officials throughout the 2-year ordeal and considers how universities can be saved from illiberal ideology. Peter also introduces Negy to Hanna, a UCF student who was part of the mob that canceled him. Hanna explains her experience of indoctrination in the Social Justice movement and how she became a free speech advocate.

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Chapters

0:35 Interview begins

1:06 Charles's backstory

20:30 On losing friends

24:08 Charles's firing

31:30 Charles's plan moving forward

44:05 Ideological capture of universities & if they can be saved

1:15:45 Hanna and Charles meet

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College wants to fire professor for 'dishonesty' of different opinions

Statement of charges made public in professor's First Amendment retaliation lawsuit. His lawyer calls it "an open war on whistleblower protections."

 Greg Piper

Updated: March 26, 2023

A tenured history professor could lose his job for the "unprofessional conduct" of heatedly disagreeing with colleagues about racial matters, protesting when Bakersfield College let other events meet in person during COVID-19 restrictions but not his, and filing complaints about alleged discrimination.

Matthew Garrett filed the Nov. 21 statement of charges last week in his ongoing First Amendment retaliation lawsuit with fellow history professor Erin Miller against Kern Community College District (KCCD) officials. Their lawyer Arthur Willner characterized the charges as "an open war on whistleblower protections, faculty tenure, and the First Amendment."

One of the charges stems from Garrett's purportedly racist comments during a diversity committee meeting that debated a proposed "racial justice task force," but a recording of the meeting obtained by Just the News didn't support those allegations.

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