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Gad Saad

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intellectual freedom.

And by the way, to that point, so when I now got this beautiful position at University of Mississippi, I don't have tenure there.

I don't really care that much.

But they put a clause in the contract that says that my rights to say, speak, and write whatever I want will be protected with the same staunchness that the First Amendment offers me and that tenure would offer me.

So even though...

I'm not officially there a tenured professor.

At this stage of my career, I don't care.

But they enshrined it.

So to our earlier point, I think there is a way whereby I could put a load of money in front of you and say, so how much do you now support freedom of speech for Gad Saad?

And I'm saying, maybe you're right that the University of Austin guys would never buckle to that.

But Harvard government department did buckle.

Columbia University under Edward Said.

Do you know who that is, Edward Said?

Edward Said was a kind of very pro-Palestinian guy who was kind of a big shot in their political science department.

All of his teachings at Columbia University were rather skewed in terms of being anti-Israel.

And so the students that come out are going to be a product of what we taught them.

It's not surprising that they're all wearing keffiyeh.