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Published · transcript-backedGreg Lukianoff: belief
25 Sept 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
“When this got in front of a judge, he was exactly as skeptical of it as we thought he’d be. I think he called this dystopian and it wasn’t a close call.”
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- Speaker
- Greg Lukianoff
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 25 Sept 2023
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Can you elaborate on Stop WOKE Act? This is presumably trying to limit certain topics from being taught in school? Basically woke topics, it came out of the attempt to get at critical race theory, so it’s topics related to race, gender, et cetera. I don’t remember exactly how they tried to cabinet to CRT, but the law is really well established that you can’t tell higher education what they’re allowed to teach without violating the First Amendment. When this got in front of a judge, he was exactly as skeptical of it as we thought he’d be. I think he called this dystopian and it wasn’t a close call. If you’re against that kind of teaching, the right way to fight it is by making the case that it’s not a good idea as part of the curriculum as opposed to banning it from the curriculum?…
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