Greg Lukianoff

racist fools that they were.

They were, you know, even Blues Brothers made jokes about them.

And it didn't turn into the disaster that people thought it was going to be just by letting them speak.

And Ira Glasser, okay, so he has this wonderful story about how Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and how there was a moment when it was

seeing someone, an African American, as literally on their team and how that really got him excited about the cause of racial equality and that became a big part of what his life was.

And I just think of that as such a great metaphor, is expanding your circle and seeing more people as being quite literally on your team is the solution to so many of these problems.

And I worry that one of the things that is absolutely just a fact of life in America is like,

we do see each other more as enemy camps as opposed to people on the same team.

And that was actually something in the early days.

Me and Will Creeley, the legal director of FIRE, wrote about the forthcoming free speech challenges of everyone being on Facebook.

And one thing that I was hoping was that as more people were exposing more of their lives, we'd realize a lot of these things we knew intellectually, like kids go to the bar and get drunk and do stupid things, that when we started seeing...

the evidence of them doing stupid things that we might be shocked at first, but then eventually get more sophisticated and be like, well, come on, people are like that.

That never actually really seemed to happen.

That, that, that I don't think, I think that there are plenty of things we know about human nature and we know about dumb things people say.

And we've, we've made it into an environment where there's just someone out there waiting to be kind of like,

Oh, remember that dumb thing you said we were 14?

Well, I'm going to make sure that you don't get into your dream school because of that.

That's not my term, though.

It's a great term.

It's a great term.