Greg Lukianoff

I can't believe that even made it into the magazine because it's not just calling us – because, of course, the implication, of course, is that we're right-wing, which we're not.

Actually, the staff leans decidedly more to the left than to the right.

But we also defend people all over the spectrum all the time.

That's something that even the most minimal Google search would have solved.

So we've been giving LA Times some heat on this because it's like, yeah, if you said, in my opinion, they're right-wing, we would have argued back immediately.

You know, saying, well, here's the following 50,000 examples of us not being.

But when you actually make the factual claim that we only defend opinions we agree with, first of all, there's no way for us to agree with opinions because we actually have a politically diverse staff who won't even agree on which opinions are good and what opinions we have.

But yeah, I had one time when someone did something like this and they were just being a little bit flippant about kind of like free speech being fine.

I did a 70 tweet long thread, you know, just being like, hey, do you really think this is fine?

I decided not to do that on this particular one.

But.

The nice thing about it is it demonstrated two parts of the book, Canceling the American Mind, if not more.

One of them is dismissing someone because they're conservative because that was the implication.

Don't have to listen to fire because they're conservative.

But the other one is something, a term that I invented specifically for the way people argue on Twitter, which is hypocrisy projection.

Hi, I'm a person who only cares about one side of the political fence, and I think everyone else is a hypocrite.

And by the way, I haven't done any actual research on this, but I assume everyone else is a hypocrite.

And you see this happen all the time.

And this happens to FIRE a lot, where someone will be like, where is FIRE on this case?

And we're like, we are literally quoted in the link you just sent, but didn't actually read.