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Greg Lukianoff

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

We did a documentary about Ira Glasser called Mighty Ira, which was my video team and my protege, Nico Perino, and Chris Malby and Aaron Reese put it together.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

And it just follows the life and times of Ira Glasser, the former head of the ACLU.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

Oh, yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

Who's Ira?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

Amazing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

Ira, he wasn't a lawyer.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

He started working at the NYCLU, the New York Civil Liberties Union, back in, I think, the 60s.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

I think Robert Kennedy recommended that he go in that direction.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

And he became the president of the ACLU right at the time that they were suffering from defending the Nazis at Skokie.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

And Nico and Aaron and Chris put together this โ€“ and they'd never done a documentary before.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

And it came out so, so well.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

And it tells the story of the Nazis in Skokie.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

It tells the story of the case around it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

It tells the story of the ACLU at the time and what a great leader Ira Glasser was.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

And one of the things that's so great is like when you get to see the Nazis at Skokie, they come off like the โ€“

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

idiots that you would expect them to.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

There's a moment when the rally is not going very well and the leader gets flustered.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

It almost seems like he's going to shout out, kind of like, you're making this Nazi rally into a mockery.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

It showed how actually allowing the Nazis to speak at Skokie kind of took the wind out of their sails.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#397 โ€“ Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech

The whole movement, it all kind of dissolved after that because they looked like