Greg Lukianoff

Professors were losing their jobs for saying insensitive things about 9-11, and both from the right and the left.

Actually, in that case, actually, sometimes a lot more from the right.

And it was really bad, and about five professors lost their jobs.

That's bad.

Five professors over a relatively short period of time being fired for a political opinion, that's something that would get written up in any previous decades.

We're now evaluating how many professors have been targeted for cancellation between 2014 and middle of this year, July of 2023.

We're at well over 1,000 attempts to get professors fired or punished, usually driven by students and administrators, often driven by professors, unfortunately, as well.

About two-thirds of those result in the professor being punished in some way, everything from having their article removed to suspension, et cetera.

About one-fifth of those result in professors being fired.

So right now, it's almost 200.

It's around 190 professors being fired.

So I want to give some context here.

The Red Scare is generally considered to have been from 1947 to 1957.

It ended, by the way, in 57 when it finally became clear, thanks to the First Amendment, that you couldn't actually fire people for their ideologies.

Prior to that, a lot of universities thought they could.

This guy is a very doctrinaire communist.

You know, it can't be just waited.

I'm going to fire them.

They thought they actually could do that.

And it was only 57 when the law was established.