Greg Lukianoff

Now, Harvey was right.

It's about knowledge.

Simply, you are not safer for knowing less about what people really think.

So I'll give you an example.

Lizard people who live under the Denver airport do not, in fact, control the world.

They don't.

I'm sorry.

But knowing that your future husband thinks they do, or your congressman thinks they do, or every single one of your neighbors thinks they do, is pretty important information to have.

To understand the world, you must know what people really think.

Truth number two.

Free speech cures violence.

About half of Americans, by some estimates more,

believe that words can be violence.

And this is especially true, it's actually much worse on American college campuses.

Ann Coulter, conservative, tried to speak at Cornell a couple of years back, and her speech was also shouted down, and students actually literally shouted, your words are violence.

Now, I have experienced real violence.

I was once punched out, I was randomly assaulted, I got a concussion, and I couldn't see out of this eye for a month.

Worse, one of my friends was stabbed in the chest, and I was there.

There was blood everywhere, and I was sure he was going to die.

That's violence.