Greg Lukianoff

So like right now, these are happening in an environment where freedom of speech, academic freedom are clearly protected at public colleges in the United States and we're still seeing these kind of numbers.

During the Red Scare, the biggest study that was done of what was going on – I think this came out in like 55 –

And the evaluation was that there was about 62 professors fired for being communists and about 90-something professors fired for political views overall.

That usually is reported as being about 100.

Um, so 60, 90, 100, depending on how you look at it.

I think the number is actually higher.

Um, but that's only because of hindsight.

Like what I mean by hindsight is we can look back and we actually find there were more professors who, who, who were fired as time reveals.

We're at 190 professors fired.

And I still have to put up with people saying this isn't even happening.

And I'm like in the nine and a half years of cancel culture, 190 professors fired in the 11 years of, uh, of the red scare.

Probably somewhere around 100, probably more.

The number is going to keep going up.

But unlike during the Red Scare, where people could clearly tell something was happening, the craziest thing about cancel culture is I'm still dealing with people who are saying this isn't happening at all.

And it hasn't been subtle on campus.

And we know that's a wild undercount, by the way, because when we surveyed professors—

17% of them said that they had been threatened with investigation or actually investigated for what they taught, said, or their research.

And one third of them said that they were told by administrators not to take on controversial research.

So, like, extrapolating that out, that's a huge number.

And the reason why you're not going to hear about a lot of these cases is because there are so many different conformity-inducing mechanisms in the whole thing.