Greg Lukianoff

It's interesting because at least the research as of –

10 years ago was indicating that if you dig a little bit deeper into that, a lot of the people who do consider themselves on the left tend to be a little bit more libertarian.

There's something that Pinker wrote a fair amount about.

The idea that we're just smarter is not an opinion I'm the least bit comfortable with.

I do think that departments take on momentum when they become a place where you're like, wow, it'd be really unpleasant for me to work in this department if I'm the token conservative, and I think that takes on a life of its own.

There are also departments where a lot of the ideology is kind of explicitly –

leftist.

You look at education schools, a lot of the stuff that is actually left over from what is correctly called critical race theory is present, and you end up having that in a number of the departments.

It would be very strange to be in many departments a conservative social worker professor.

I'm sure they exist, but

There's a lot of pressure to shut up if you are.

We have a little bit of fun with demographic numbers.

But I run this by height and I remember him being kind of like, don't include the actual percentage.

I'm like, no, we need to include the actual percentages because people are really bad at estimating what the demographics of the US actually looks like, both the right and the left in different ways.

Um, so we put it in the numbers and we talk about, you know, um, being dismissed for being white or being dismissed for, uh, being straight or being dismissed for being male.

Um, and we, uh, and you can already dismiss people for being conservative.

And we, so we, we, we give examples in the book of, of these being used to dismiss people and oftentimes on topics not related to the fact that they are a male or whether or not they're minority.

And then we get to, I think it's like layer six and we're like,

Surprise, guess what?

You're down to 0.4% of the population and none of it mattered because if you have the wrong opinion, even if you're in that 0.4% of the most intersectional person who ever lived and you have the wrong opinion, you're a heretic and you actually probably will be hated even more.