Greg Lukianoff
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Because his term for one of the things he's concerned about what destroys societies is repatrimonialization, which is the reversion to societies in which you favor your family and friends.
And I actually think a lot of what I'm seeing in sort of โ in the United States, it makes me worried that we might be going through a little bit of a process of repatrimonialization.
And I think that's one of the reasons why people are so angry.
I think having โ I think the prospect that we very nearly seem to have an election that was going to be Jeb Bush versus Hillary Clinton.
It's like are we a dynastic country now?
Is that what's kind of happening?
Yeah.
But also it's one of the reasons why people are getting so angry about legacy admissions, about how much certain families seem to be able to keep their people in the upper classes of the United States perpetually.
And believe me, I was poor when I was a kid and I got to go to one of the fancies.
I got to go to Stanford.
And I got to see how people โ
they treat you differently in a way that's almost insulting.
Like basically like suddenly to a certain kind of person, I was a legitimate person.
And I look at how much America relies on Harvard, on Yale to produce its, I'm gonna use a very Marxist sounding term, ruling class.
And that's one of the reasons why you have to be particularly worried about what goes on at these elite colleges.
And these elite colleges, with the exception of University of Chicago and UVA, do really badly regarding freedom of speech.
And that has all sorts of problems.
It doesn't bode well for the future of the protection of freedom of speech for the rest of the society.
I try really hard to empathize with, to a degree, everybody and try to really see where they're coming from.
And the anger on the right, I get it.