Greg Lukianoff
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And that's really what censorship is.
It's basically telling you, don't be yourself.
Don't actually say what you think.
Don't show your personality.
Don't dissent.
Don't be weird.
Don't be wrong.
And that's not sustainable.
I think that people have kind of had enough of it.
But one thing I definitely want to say to your audience is...
It can't just be up to us arguers to try to fix this.
And I think that, and this may sound like it's an unrelated problem, I think if there were highly respected, let's say extremely difficult ways to prove that you're extremely smart and hardworking that cost little or nothing, that actually can give
the Harvards and the Yales of the world to run for their money, I think that might be the most positive thing we could do to deal with a lot of these problems and why.
I think the fact that we have become a weird โ America with a great anti-elitist tradition has become weirdly elitist in the respect that we not only again are our leadership coming from these โ
few fancy schools, we actually have like great admiration for them.
We kind of look up to them.
But I think we'd have a lot healthier of a society if people could prove, you know, their excellence in ways that are coming from completely different streams and that are highly respected.
I sometimes talk about there should be a test that anyone who passes it gets like a, you know, a BA in the humanities that like a super BA, like something like someone not a GED.
That's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about something that like