Greg Lukianoff

It is as bad as it is to tell professors what they can't say, like we fought and defeated in Florida.

It's even worse to tell them what they must say.

That's downright totalitarian.

And we're suing against this.

And what I'm saying is that it

When you're dismissing someone for just being on the other side of the political fence, you are also kind of making a claim that none of these cases matter as well.

And I want people to care about censorship when it even is against people they hate.

DEI, I know people who are DEI consultants.

Actually, I have a dear friend who I love very much who does DEI.

Absolutely decent people.

What they want to do...

is create bonds of understanding, friendship, compassion among people who are different.

Unfortunately, the research on what a lot of DEI actually does is oftentimes the opposite of that.

And I think that it's partially a problem with some of the ideology that comes from critical race theory, which is a real thing, by the way, that informs a lot of DEI, that actually makes it something more likely to divide than unite.

We talk about this in

coddling the American mind as the difference between common humanity identity politics and common enemy identity politics.

And I think that I know some of the people that I know who do DEI, they really want it to be common humanity identity politics, but some of the actual ideological assumptions that are baked in can actually cause people to feel more alienated from each other.

Now, when I started at FIRE, my first cases involved 9-11.

And it was bad.

Professors were getting targeted.