Greg Lukianoff

They show up, do a shout-down.

Then they take an additional seven minutes to lecture the speaker on free speech not being – the juice of free speech not being worth the squeeze.

And then for the rest of it, it's just constant heckling after she leaves.

This is clearly – and something very similar happened a number of times at Yale where it was very clearly administrators were helping along with a lot of these disruptions.

So I think every time there is a shout down at a university, the investigation should be first and foremost, did administrators –

help create this problem?

Did they do anything to stop it?

Because I think a lot of what's really going on here is the hyper-bureaucratization of universities with a lot more ideological people who think of their primary job as basically like policing speech, more or less.

They're encouraging students, sorry, they're encouraging students who have opinions they like to do shout-downs.

And that's why they really need to investigate this.

And

It is at Stanford, the administrator who gave the prepared remarks about the juice not being worth the squeeze, she has not been invited back to Stanford.

But she's one of the only examples I can think of when these things happen a lot, where an administrator clearly facilitated something that was a shout-down or deplatforming or resulted in a professor getting fired or resulted in a student getting expelled, where the administrator has got off scot-free or probably in some cases even gotten a promotion.

And that's something I've seen throughout my entire career.

And the only thing is it's kind of hard to catch this sort of in the act, so to speak.

And that's one of the reasons why it's helpful for people to know about this, you know.

Because there was this amazing case.

This was at University of Washington.

And we actually featured this in a documentary made in 2015, that came out in 2015, 2016, called Can We Take a Joke?

And this was when we started noticing something was changing on campus.