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Harvey Silverglate

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

name the building after you.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

I think they have a right to do that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

Well, I have a problem with universities making morals tests of donors.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

because not every donor is as bad as Epstein, but some of the donors made their money in industry by being rapacious, by paying low wages, by exploiting people.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

So that's why I say I would not give him naming rights.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

I think the university has the autonomy to not give naming rights to

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

But I think that giving morals tests to donors is a Pandora's box.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

Money is essential to run a university.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

One of the reasons it's essential is because the university is artificially

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

artificially requires huge amounts of money, and that's probably because of the administrative army that they support.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

And they would be less dependent on the Jeffrey Epsteins of the world if they didn't have

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

So it's sort of all part of the same circle.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

And as I said, I am flexible enough to say that I don't think I would name a building after somebody who is truly evil.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

I think university has the,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

has the right to limit the naming rights for a donor.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

If I was an absolutist, I would not even say that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

I'm not an absolutist.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

I have my limits.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

And that's one of them.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

The Jeffrey Epstein Biological Laboratory, it's a little bit much.