Greg Lukianoff

And it's cruel.

And the problem is that in an environment so wide open, there's always going to be someone who wants to be so transgressive and say the most hurtful, terrible thing.

But then you have to remember the misrepresentation, getting back to the old idioms.

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

Has been...

re-imagined in campus debates in the most asinine way.

People will literally say stuff like, but now we know words can hurt.

And it's like, now we know words can hurt?

Guys, you didn't have to come up with a special little thing that you teach children to make words hurt less if they never hurt in the first place.

It wouldn't even make sense, the saying.

It's a saying that you repeat to yourself to give yourself strength when the bullies have noticed you're a little weird.

That might be a little personal.

And it helps.

It really does help to be like, listen, okay, assholes are going to say asshole things, and I can't let them have that kind of power over me.

But for the good people out there who actually just sometimes think that they're vented, think about it.

Remember that there are people on the other side of it.

Yeah, that was always my sort of flippant answer to that if mankind is basically good or basically evil being like the biggest debate in philosophy and being like, well, the problem with the first is there's nothing basic about humanity.

Yeah.

I think that people are sick of it.

I think people are sick of not being able to be authentic.