Harvey Silverglate

In order to create true equality in a society where you have some downtrodden and some who are the uber-mentioned,

In order to create real equality, you have to reduce the rights of the upper classes and artificially increase the rights of the lower classes.

And that will produce, out of unequal treatment, true equality will be attained.

This is nonsense.

the idea of discrimination producing true equality is nonsense.

My view is, as I've said earlier in our discussion, that the way to increase the opportunities for the lower classes is to give them real educations.

And until we do that, it's not gonna happen.

And in order to do that, we have to overcome the problem of the teachers' unions at the elementary and secondary school levels.

Until we're willing to do that honestly and improve those schools, we're going to have a problem of a large number of uneducated people

who need a boost because we haven't given them proper educations.

I think the university has an absolute, absolute...

not relative, not border, that absolute role or obligation to protect the academic freedom of even the most controversial faculty members.

And you can imagine, on a university campus, you have more people who are outliers than you do in the general population.

That's the hope, at least.

Hopefully, yeah.

And those outliers have to be protected.

They can't be pressured, they can't be fired, they can't be disabled from spewing their views, whether they're considered racist, whether they're considered to promote an idea of human society that's considered obnoxious.

So it doesn't matter.

If you can't have freedom of thought on the college campuses, where can you?

You know, then we're lost as a society, we're lost.