Harvey Silverglate
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I do draw a line about naming rights of buildings.
And I say that's an inconsistency with my absolutism.
But I just emotionally, I just can't deal with having, you know, as I said, the Jeffrey Epstein Biological Laboratory.
Right, and there's an awful lot of people who abuse power at a university.
It is a crime to use one's power position in order to take sexual advantage of a student.
It's a crime.
Yeah.
This is not a close question.
Well, then you shouldn't be a criminal defense lawyer or a cardiologist.
Well, it's a complicated world, and it's complicated to be a human being, and this is nothing new.
And we should talk about it without restriction.
Yes, the problem with, I'm a political liberal.
The problem with the political left is that it has divided between what's called progressives and liberals.
liberals are people of the left who believe in the First Amendment, absolute First Amendment, and in due process of law.
And the problem with what progressives now, in the pursuit of equality, what they view as equality, they're willing to bend those rules.
And this movement actually started in Brandeis.
The critical, it's the critical race theory.
It started, Herbert Marcuse was a professor at Brandeis, and he came up with this theory.
The theory was this.
This is right out of Orwell.