Greg Lukianoff
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They're different in a lot of ways, and definitely, you know, cancel culture from the left is more important in academia, where the left is...
But we talk a lot about cancel culture coming from legislatures.
We talk a lot about cancel culture on campus as well, because even though most of the attempts that come from on campus to get people canceled are still from the left.
there are a lot of attacks that come from the right, that come from attempts by different organizations.
And sometimes when there are stories in Fox News, they'll go after professors.
And about one-third of the attempts to get professors punished that are successful actually do come from the right.
And we talk about attempts to get books banned.
In the book, we talk about
And I talk about suing the Florida legislature.
Ron DeSantis had something called the Stop Woke Act, which we told everyone this is laughably unconstitutional.
They tried to ban particular topics in higher ed.
And we're like, no, this is a joke.
This will be laughed out of court.
And they didn't listen to us and they brought it โ they passed it and we sued and we won.
Now, they're trying again with something that's equally as unconstitutional and we will sue again and we will win.
Yeah, basically woke topics.
It came out of the attempt to get at critical race theory.
It's topics related to race, gender, etc.
I don't remember exactly how they tried to cabinet to CRT.
But when you actually, the law is really well established that you can't tell higher education what they're allowed to teach without violating the First Amendment.