Dr. Brian Keating

They would be booted off campus in a millisecond.

If it was any other group, and I felt like he's not paying attention, he didn't even mention the fact that the UCLA grant was not restricted by Trump punitively because they don't like this mathematician,

They did it because UCLA permitted and encouraged in some sense this encampment to go on for weeks.

And it was very dangerous, hostile and unpleasant and had no place in academia.

I actually testified in Congress last summer about my experiences here and it was a violation of my civil rights and other people's civil rights.

But anyway, so when I had this – I had a debate with some people online like, well, are they really canceling his funding?

Like does he deserve it?

Because he was working at a place that was discriminatory and hostile.

So I actually did change my mind in some sense that like could it be done differently?

Could it be done in a more – and I'm like very supportive of what Trump has done.

you know, for the campus climate and culture and standing up against anti-Semitism and any kind of discrimination.

So I was very supportive of that, but it caused me to kind of reevaluate, you know, do I really have a true commitment to it or, and also help educate him.

I met with him on campus, on his campus last month, last week rather, and we had a great discussion.

I don't think he was aware of how his Jewish colleagues felt.

So it was a positive thing.

And so this is the kind of thing that can only happen

thanks to the internet.

But because the internet has every vice vector and valor known to humanity, sometimes it's not worth it.

And sometimes I regret it.

And I'm trying to minimize the amount of regret time I spend on all these platforms.