Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
I have no problem saying that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
The school that did not do so well at a negative 10.69, negative 10.69, and we rounded up to zero was Harvard.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
And Harvard has been not very happy with that result.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
Yeah, and there are a couple people... Oh, Harvard.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
Oh, Harvard.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
And there are a couple people who have actually been really, I think, making a mistake by getting very Harvard-sounding, by being like, I've had statisticians look at this, and they think your methodology is a joke, and pointing out, and this case wasn't that important, and that scholar wasn't... One of the arguments against one of the scholars that we counted against them for punishing was that that wasn't a very famous or influential scholar, and I'm kind of like...
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
so your argument seems to be snobbery, like essentially that like you, you're not understanding our methodology for one thing.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
And then you're saying that actually that scholar wasn't important enough to count.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
And by the way, Harvard, by the way, Harvard, um, if we, yeah, if we, even if we took all of your arguments as true, even if we decided to get rid of those two professors, um,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
you would still be in negative numbers.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
You would still be dead last.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
You would still be after Georgetown and Penn, and neither of those schools are good for freedom of speech.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
All very well-earned.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
They have so many bad cases at all of those schools.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
A lot of deplatforming.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
When we looked at the bottom five, 81% of attempts to get speakers deplatformed were successful at the bottom five.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
There were a couple schools, I think Penn included, where every single attempt was
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
Every time a student group objected to that speaker coming, they canceled the speech.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
And I think Georgetown was 100% success rate.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
I think Penn had 100% success rate.