Warren Smith

And that was a long email, but that's how I would summarize it.

Yeah, I've always enjoyed pushing back where I think it's warranted, and I would in class.

And it was interesting to see how the professors responded.

It was interesting to note that so many of the graduate level students in my discipline, at least, were direct students from China, which

I didn't, I still don't, I think it's because they pay higher tuition, it's essentially business.

But Emerson has a high representation in China.

Every year they send ambassadors over, they would select a student ambassador to go over for the convention in China.

And I remember because the dean also had a high presence in China, she talked about how many times she'd been there.

But I remember bringing, challenging one day in social, in cultural media studies, I have the textbook still, and chapter one is by Karl Marx.

talking about can we control the internet and i was like well we should ask how's it working in china like what do you guys think and i said it just like that he said no you can't can't talk about like that or talk about that it's like this is a college level this is a graduate level class you want to analyze whether we control the internet but we can't talk about real world examples because it's culturally insensitive is the way he was insinuating

It's a little example.

That one stands out in my mind vividly.

But there was a lot of nonsensical encounters with professors that, oh, it just gets under your skin.

And then that drive, when you do see an alternative like Jordan Peterson, who I think put his finger on the source that you're describing, what led to this, you could describe largely as postmodernism.

It's not even political opinions.

If we're having a conversation about can we control the internet, that's not political.

We're engaging with the logic of the claim.

And it's one thing I totally understand, especially at the high school level,

Yeah, I don't like it when I see left-wing teachers preaching about Trump in class.

I wouldn't do that from the right.