Cancel Culture, Free Speech & Censorship w/ Greg Lukianoff

Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendment lawyer and President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), dives headfirst into the pressing issues of free speech and the impact of cancel culture in academia. Lukianoff discusses the troubling trends at prestigious universities, where ideological bias butts up against claims of political neutrality, especially highlighted during recent intense protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict. He presents a compelling, data-backed narrative from his latest book, “The Canceling of the American Mind,” co-authored with Rikki Schlott, revealing how a culture of censorship is stifling discourse and academic freedom.
Lukianoff is also known for co-authoring "The Coddling of the American Mind" with Jonathan Haidt.
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Outline:
[0:00] Intro
[1:17] Coddling of the American Mind
[8:54] The history of ‘cancel culture’
[17:02] What started happening in 2014?
[27:34] The polarization spiral
[33:19] Herbert Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance”
[45:49] Free speech and Hamas apologetics at Harvard
[57:35] Cancellation by the numbers
[1:10:05] Different threats from the left and the right
[1:20:13] Protecting free speech with law and culture
[1:28:21] What about Title IX and federal funding?
[1:35:48] Did Weimar Germany need more censorship?
[1:41:32] How to prepare your kids for modern culture
[1:50:32] The role of fatherlessness and secularism
[1:55:25] Don’t be scared of having kids
Dad Saves America is a channel dedicated to celebrating heroic fatherhood while teaching the next generation of fathers strategies they can utilize in parenting their children. We believe strong children come from a strong family. We’ve had many experts in the studio, including Jonathan Haidt, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Troy Kotsur, John Mackey, Ben Askren, and Adam Carolla.
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[@AZChelseaR]

I read Coddling in 2019. At the time my younger children were 9, 4, and 3 and it 100% changed the way I parent. I now have a 13, 8, and 7 year old who play outside, make choices and reap or suffer consequences for those choices mostly absent of adult intervention (barring serious safety concerns) and i have 3 young people who think critically and use logic. We have conversations like "whats more important, honesty or kindness". Parents should remember that your goal should be to raise adults.

[@memoryhero]

This comment is my spirit animal. Thank you for what you've shared here!

[@robertholley2195]

a woman said to me years ago, "they don;t want equality Rob . they want revenge."

[@brianmeen2158]

Greg lukianoff is always a pleasure to listen to

[@Jo15673]

I think there is an element of human nature that is attracted to bullying and dominating/controlling others & cancel culture enables a 'acceptable' means of acting out this type of awful behavior. Where people can just be cruel and awful to other people, harass them & try to destroy them, etc - and the perpetrators of this behavior can still think of themselves as a good person. When clearly this behavior is terrible and reflects poorly on the person doing it.

[@victorduffy4459]

I think it's the dominant element of human nature.

[@MetaTrendsMark]

Agreed, anytime you find something that is pernicious and persistent there is likely an evolutionary benefit to it, and if somthing is adaptive it will continue in the next generation. My hypothesis is that victimhood mentality enabled our ancestors to live long enough to procreate but now stands in our way to succeed@@victorduffy4459

[@stephanieofford5800]

Great interview! I learned a lot! Cannot wait to read the new book!

[@memoryhero]

Fantastic start to your channel! Your effort and dedication shine through in this content. Lukianoff, as always, delivers invaluable insights, but in this particular episode, he truly outdoes himself. The way you've highlighted and delved into the most striking aspects of his latest work is not just enlightening, but also incredibly timely and impactful. This podcast is a gem. What I especially appreciate is the podcast's deeper purpose - it's not just about the conversation itself, but about how we can translate these discussions into practical steps for better parenting. You've earned top marks from me! Your interview style is refreshingly insightful, adding a layer of depth that turned my ordinary Saturday afternoon into a delightful and thought-provoking experience. Keep up the great work! Boom.... :D

[@DadSavesAmerica]

This is a comment that has truly made my week! we’re on a long journey with this channel to try and build a place where people can expand their mind, but also have practical real world things to do with what comes out of these conversations. This comment perfectly encapsulates everything we’re trying to do. Thank you so much! I think you’re really going to enjoy the next one with my good friend, Connor Boyack!

[@manuelmejia4481]

Thankyou for such a great video much Respect From Anaheim CA

[@DadSavesAmerica]

Thanks for watching!

[@manuelmejia4481]

@@DadSavesAmerica yes I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and plus you are a cool dude

[@Papamarmottin]

This is such a pleasure to watch and listen to. Thank you!

[@duncanweller1]

Well, that was one of the greatest and most informative videos I've ever seen on this woke nonsense. Thanks so much!

[@jolee3633]

What I find to be extremely sad is hearing young adults who can only quote the words they have been taught and have absolutely no no clue what the facts on the subjects are.as an older person I remember wondering what repercussions of the daycare generation would be I never could have I imagined what has become our reality of today.

[@dks13827]

I drive rideshare folks............. they sometimes tell me Apollo was fake !!!!!!! wow.

[@Tamar-sz8ox]

Smart phones and Social media are causing lots of negativity vs daycare . With the little kids ,it is detrimental to their brain development. The research is Coming out now

[@dontarguewithidiots7459]

This is about power, pure and simple. The brilliance of the ideas don't matter at all. THAT SAID, all we can do is continue to push ahead - keep speaking out/connecting/publishing. Keep at it guys!!

[@anthonybrett]

"This is about power, pure and simple." Exactly, with the irony being, most of these "cultural elites" (fools) all love Marx and Foucault, both of which say that the worst of humanity only craves power. They literally have become their own worst enemy.

[@williambranch4283]

The Closing Of The American Mind 1987 ... You were warned.

[@Vanilla-jd1ez]

Mcarthyism ended up being 100% true. Why do "intellectuals" always dismiss it?

[@DadSavesAmerica]

Yeah… kinda awkward isn’t it? But I think two things can be true: McCarthy was right about the communists AND firing communists for being communists could be wrong, at least if it’s induced by the government. I’m conflicted on this. I value open discourse and free speech even with idiotic ideas like communism. But when it becomes a fifth column committing to destroying the society, is it really still protected speech? I need to think more about this and get more perspectives.

[@azovandy14.88]

Wow McCarthy was right, if you believe that you have serious issues.

[@sifridbassoon]

I love Greg Lukianoff's laugh! He and Ayan Hirsi Alan are my heroes and national treasures.

[@thenewyorkcitizen]

Truth telling and having opinions other than the official narrative is not allowed.

[@BeLovedOfYahusha]

Depressed people fail to be thankful for everyone and everything they have Look around and see people who can't walk or talk or even eat We have more than we know We are so blessed in the USA

[@kaboom146]

My favorite line "the deplorables versus the insufferables."

[@christiansmith-of7dt]

The happiest guy in the room wins

[@H.Hardrada]

The most important question of this talk went unanswered. "Why did Herbert Marcuse's ideas work?" That points to the very heart of this. I have my own ideas but I wanted to hear what you guys thought.

[@donald7212]

What's your point how do you suggest we change this solutions not batching might help......

[@marcusaurelius8605]

57:45 Everyone needs to read this book. Especially Parents. Agreed, Mds Psyc and all ...

[@DadSavesAmerica]

100%

[@neomacchio4692]

97 likes 😔 KZbin doesn’t like America or the values inherent within it.

[@DadSavesAmerica]

We’re still finding our audience. But glad you’re here!

[@neomacchio4692]

@@DadSavesAmericaGlad to have found you! It is certainly a thing though… the YT algorithms do not favor truth, logic, facts, family tradition, the nuclear family, traditional gender roles, free speech and other American values. They suppress views and visibility . I hope y’all can prevail though as Dads are a lost and forgotten member of society. We need to bring back the most important member of society and the nuclear family - the Dad.

[@MrRhetorikill]

​@@DadSavesAmericayou should be damn proud to have established the audience you have so far. There is a very interesting thing that happens with KZbin channels where certain channels with smaller audiences have a massively oversized influence because of WHO is watching them. Keep up the good work of carefully cultivating a high quality and influencial audience the way you are currently. You are doing a great job.

[@bamagirl7394]

Always a good podcast. ❤

[@DadSavesAmerica]

Thanks my friend!!

[@amandap9332]

Please invite Peter Joseph to the show. He's a systems analyst and used to work in advertising.

[@scha0306]

"A fifth column terror cell"? C'mon Dad, take a breath. 1:23:37 That said, I enjoyed the interview, primarily because Lukianoff is seriously well-informed on this issue, and is a gracious interviewee.

[@Vitusvonatzinger]

These histrionics are being rewarded so they are being solidified as currency.

[@zeenuf00]

You all enabled it

[@bryck7853]

Did I miss the mention the self-censorship on the youtuber content providers?

[@coreycefail6704]

As a millennial….. I am not for cancel culture …….. I could say so many observations that could blow up everyone’s revenue streams ……. The only millennials that like cancel culture are those in the institutions that don’t want to work ……. We all know what happened…… a whole bunch of spoiled idiotic adult children got tricked by propaganda….. and have bought into the idea of not having to work …. And want to force other people into their frame ….. we don’t want to ….. if they don’t want to work they can fulfill their own wishes …. We as a society are not following them into stupid ideas

[@senorpoodles1755]

I don't understand the idea that someone shouldn't be fired for being a communist. Employers are people with rights too. If they no longer want to pay someone, so be it.

[@ExtremelyTastyBread]

>trigglypuff what year is it

[@brianmeen2158]

1:27:00. A great point that I’ve been thinking the past few years - the older more sensible folks on the liberal/left side have got to step in and “hold the fort” so to speak .. they can’t just let the hornets of younger radical woke students plow them over. Tragically at this point I couldn’t be more disappointed in my older liberal/leftist friends .. only a small amount have even tried speaking out against this madness so I struggle picturing the rest of them standing up now. The massive amount of cowardice I’ve seen since 2020 has been very disheartening and there’s not much we can do about it which is even More frustrating

[@samij6071]

People don't want to lose their jobs and be harassed out of public life. I totally agree that the left needs to stand up against this - and as someone who considers themself to be "on the left" to a degree- I do. However, the intense partisanship and divisiveness in our country is also driving this because the idiots on both sides are driving each side further and further into theirecho chamber. Smart, reasonable people on both sides (and in the middle) need to unite against this.

[@sifridbassoon]

It's because they see all this through rose colored nostalgia - "Ahhh.. I remember when WE were marching in the streets...such a wonderful time in life."

[@EricMHowardII-yh1rn]

Please address the issue of long ads before your podcasts in the future.

[@scotishcovenanters]

I like your show. The lighting in this episode is depressing. Get some more lighting?

[@MetaTrendsMark]

Are you ok if we do a reply video to this video P.S, love your work

[@DadSavesAmerica]

Sure! I'm all about open discourse and exchanging ideas...as I'm sure is clear from this interview!

[@davidabramson3020]

If you want some smart employees, look for people who have taken the CLT - Classic Learning Test. Hillsdale type students etc.

[@aiistyt]

Finally, an American that knows what a liberal is. As he said the authoritarian left referring to themselves as “liberal” is asinine.

[@SeekAfterGod]

Jesus is the answer to demoralization deceit and false authority.

[@solaracochran4724]

PCU movie too

[@maxinefreeman8858]

Spies gave the information to Stalin about the bomb after the war. Stalin knew America was working on a new weapon. Some German scientists were working towards making the atom bomb. Eisenstein wrote a letter to FDR telling him what the German scientists were doing. That's when the Manhattan Project started. This is the 5th grade version I remember.

[@desertrose0601]

Also the Bud Light thing wasn’t cancel culture. Conservatives weren’t trying to get everyone at Bud fired and never work again and oh here’s some tweets from when they were in fifth grade. It was simply a boycott. That’s very different from what the left does when they go scorched earth on anyone who disagrees with them. It’s okay to have standards and to vote with your dollar when a company violates those standards. But don’t confuse that with cancel culture. It’s very different. Society does need standards. A free-for-all anything-goes mentality is how we got into this mess in society in the first place.

[@tetrapharmakos8868]

As a geriatric millennial, I will say that our older Gen X siblings aggressively promoted a culture which stated that sincerity was uncool. They believed, or at least behaved as though bad faith was an armor to be worn at all times incase someone were to come along and accuse you of sincere belief. Ironic detachment was de rigueur and since then that sincerity gap has been filled with deconstruction. People's greatest fear is being seen as "cringe". When old age does this generation waste, what will remain in midst of other woes than ours? Bad faith and ironic detachment.

[@DadSavesAmerica]

Very interesting comment as a Gen-Xer myself. It might be a bit too much of a grand social theory based on 90s angst movies and grunge.

[@desertrose0601]

I disagree. As a Gen Xer myself, I’d say my generation valued sincerity more than any other value.

[@shokuchideirdrecarrigan7402]

What was the music of Gen X? Disco? Punk? Not in the realm of sincerity-either one. More like alienation and rejection.

[@bernmahan1162]

Excellent (except for all the pro-capitalist bits). It is the same story as Dr Seuss@ "Sneeetches on the Beaches"!

[@DadSavesAmerica]

Thanks for leaving a positive comment. So you don’t like capitalism?

[@bernmahan1162]

I'm not a fan of unrestrained US style capitalism. As a game of Monopoly it would be OK if the pieces were redealt every 50 years or so. I am a European style socialist (eg Denmark, Norway, UK in the 60s) where the state controls all the important things like education, power, railways etc but alongside a capitalist market which is unionised and where the rich are heavily taxed. Plenty of us old school "lefties" are disgusted by identity politics, CRT, DEI and the gender agenda. Thanks for making the vids.@@DadSavesAmerica

[@regeneration2024]

I agree that Marcuse's ideas and postmodernist ideas are massively important to the underpinnings of woke ideology, but I do not believe that Marxism itself really has any influence. The reason why I think that is because of real Marxist thinkers like Slavoj Zizek of whom has outright critiqued and ranted about woke ideology's idiocy around gender ideology and the racial narratives it propogates.

[@DadSavesAmerica]

We know that all the key intellectuals at the heart of this movement were themselves Marxists. I’ve certainly seen that if you put 100 self-described “marxists” in a room, you’ll get 100 different opinions on what true Marxism should look like. This is the challenge with an ideology focus more on criticism and deconstruction rather than creation and the process of harnessing human potential. But it’s also the tyranny of small differences that marks every heterodox group of thinkers. I see the Marxist fingerprints all over identity politics, and certainly the Leninist and Maoist ones perhaps even moreso. At the core, it’s about collective analysis rather than individual or marginal analysis. The individual is valued as a member of a group. Class in classical Marx is transposed to other forms of identity. Both aim towards equal outcomes as “justice” and thus explicitly reject equal treatment under the law to do it, violating procedural justice. Both reject individual freedom and free enterprise. Both see the world as a zero-sum power game where one class must “win” at the expense of another. At this high but essential level, they are two sides of the same coin as I see it. I know many older-school Marxists and radical leftists hate wokism because it shifts focus from economic issues which they consider to be more foundational and important, to these cultural identity concerns which they see as a divisive distraction. They’re probably right about that. But they’re wrong about just about everything else, as far as I’m concerned. Marx was a marginal figure and one of many confused socialist writers in his time with an occasionally interesting but largely incoherent thesis that was discredited by the marginal revolution thinkers and would have vanished into obscurity had the Bolsheviks/ soviets not decided to canonize him and promote his particular communist writing around the world for a generation. That Marx continues to have purchase to this day is a testament to his forceful polemics and the tragic nature of humans to on one hand be prone towards being armchair critics driven by envy and spite, both of which he had in spades and on the other hand drawn toward utopian visions of a perfect world. I know this might not sound like a fair critique. It’s the best I can do on ideas I’ve spent enough time with to have been left thoroughly unimpressed (plus there’s the 100 million+ dead bodies from Marx in action).

[@yournamehere6002]

I think he meant sadistic sociopaths

[@fubarsk8]

I found your channel a couple of weeks ago, and I really respect what you are doing. I think you should take 10 minutes and read the coroners report on george floyd.

[@DadSavesAmerica]

I just might. Though it seems like a rabbit hole frankly. I should probably just refer to his death as a death, rather than a “murder” despite the court ruling it as so. I don’t have a strong opinion here and it doesn’t actually matter compared to the bigger picture. It’s one case. The bigger picture is that the activists and media narrative jumping off of that one tragic case was false, as Roland Fryer, Heather MacDonald, Thomas Sowell, Glenn Loury and John McWorter have all laid out (and the data on police use of deadly force lays out) There ARE huge problems in our criminal justice system though as well. And the left doesn’t help anything by misrepresenting them to indulge radical utopian nonsense.

[@dianedorbin6783]

Dad Saves America - please, please please ,work on letting your guest(s) t finish their sentences and trains of thought

[@DadSavesAmerica]

Thanks for the note. Ironically, this is usually an area where we get compliments. Maybe it was the energy of this conversation that led to more overlap. I’ll watch out for it though, so thank you!

[@IslamicSchool-at-Al-HudaMosque]

​@@DadSavesAmerica*Istighfar opens the door of sustenance. Saying “Astaghfirullah” (I seek forgiveness of Allah). Prophet Muhammad (SallAllahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) recited this at least 100 times a day.*

[@jovanalmen8660]

I don't agree. I thought Greg talked too much. Evidently, some people think a host should be nothing more than a prop.

[@kimjohnson8471]

You were an excellent! This was more like eavesdropping on a private conversation between 2 friends than an interview. Don't allow a few people beating on tin buckets to drown out a room full of applause 😂❤

[@byrontownsel7274]

@@IslamicSchool-at-Al-HudaMosque How about no.

[@desertrose0601]

1:12:00 That’s not cancel culture though. Specific targeted threats of violence are not protected free speech. You’re equating apples and oranges.

[@BeLovedOfYahusha]

What are our children eating ? Nutrition deficient abounds Most have vaccine injury ! Which drpkeres vitamins, nutrients, photo nutrients & minerals

[@andrewfox368]

Red Scare 2: 2Red 2Scary

[@williamf.buckleyjr3227]

The word "creative", along with its kissing-cousin "charismatic", appear to have taken on an automatically positive connotation. WHY? Liars are creative and charismatic. Confidence men and scam artists are ENORMOUSLY creative and charismatic. What gives?

[@ms-jl6dl]

Words like "strong" and "intelligent" have taken on automaticaly positive connotations,why? Most viscious and deranged tyrants,conquerors,bullies and psychopaths were physicaly strong and intelligent.

[@jeffkay1977]

Gen X, the last cool generation.

[@frankb389]

1:16 my uneducated opinion, the goal is to push Socialism

[@DadSavesAmerica]

Yep. Agreed.

[@suedavis1781]

These guys are setting up a binary argument. Marcuse had many different ideas but he was not an advocate of Nazis. Marcuse was highly anti authoritarian; he observed that capitalism tends to commodify the self and to lead people to focus on consumption rather than participate in a creative economy. This convo lacks nuance.

[@DadSavesAmerica]

Well, given the volume of creative production is free enterprise systems, Marcuse’s “observation” sounds like more of a Marxist conjecture. I agree that we have seen materialist commodification in our society, though. I don’t see any reason to lay the blame on free people working and trading on their own terms vs. communist central planning. The later explicitly makes everyone into a commodity. There’s other challenges going on.

[@zozmachine]

Communism and Central planning aren't synonyms

[@bhz8947]

Read the new book (The Canceling of the American Mind). It doesn’t lack nuance.

[@desertrose0601]

How is James Lindsay right wing? As far as I’m aware, he’s a pretty typical atheist liberal type. Yes he’s friends with a lot of conservatives but I don’t think he’d claim to be one.

[@Orson2u]

I’d say that Conceptial James used to be left leaning. But the hard slog against Wokery have moved him right, to libertarian or classical liberal side - and it’s especially apparent over the past year or two.

[@ms-jl6dl]

​@@Orson2u He himself claims to be "lefty" and to despise "right wing" a.k.a. Republican party.

[@wwindwwalker3536]

Baby Boomers are the best generation

[@debbiehalali2285]

Talking round and round to get to a point. Not so much following through with thoughts and explanations.

[@Orson2u]

I believe you either did not listen, or you failed to comprehend. Respect again and try harder - before you dismiss your elders.

[@Bwh-rm3py]

I don’t see anything at all wrong with Trump.

[@amyblue7267]

This was the first time I've listened to Greg speak, and I want to run out and get his books. It was a great, engaging, direct discussion on an important topic. And that's why it was quite disheartening to hear the equally effective host suddenly make jarring, hyperbolic comments which felt like an abrupt record scratching and took me out of the conversation right away. You can't speak critically about how others can't handle life/truths/opposition and thus exaggerate and overreact to perceived harms perpetuated against them, and then in the same breath make statements like "global governments treated people like slaves during covid" and that we were "living under totalitarian rule." There was nothing even remotely like lockdowns in this country (in most countries), and I'm tired of this repeated lie. What we had were stay-at-home "orders" that were more like pretty-please requests. Most everyone still went out shopping (any place with food like Target and Costco stayed open), went to restaurants for takeout, hung out with friends/family at will, attended playdates and birthday parties, had recreational activities outdoors, took road trips and traveled on planes, etc. People came up with any and all excuses to not be home. Different places had different degrees of enforcement, but for the most part, nobody stopped people from going out. No one was locked down. I'm not saying it wasn't difficult and people didn't suffer on some levels, and people certainly couldn't go to every single place they wanted to, but it wasn't some totalitarian takeover. I even personally know of five funerals that were held in 2020 with full attendance - funerals/church being one of the main things people use to attest they were prevented from gathering with loved ones. Heck, the lockdown protestors themselves proved there were no lockdowns. They were decrying lockdowns while out in the streets and beaches... not locked down and not prevented from being there (all before George Floyd). They later freely went out and attended public political rallies in part to shout about how "oppressive" the government was by "forcing" them to stay home. The cognitive dissonance was staggering. There were specific places that were temporarily closed to the public for valid reasons where governments and businesses had a daunting responsibility to try to mitigate harm on a grand scale, so they did so to various levels of success. It was an unprecedented time where leaders were mostly trying to figure out in real time and amid great confusion and worry how to go about doing what was best for everyone as a whole. If they hadn't, we'd be punishing them for that, too. Yes, many people still had to work, and they complained. But others had to not work, and they also complained. There was no winning on that front. To imply we experienced similar treatment to what people in China were subjected to, for example, or to say we were treated like slaves is just so disingenuous. It devalues what others endured and what slavery actually was. And I'm in "woke-capital" California, so I know it was even more lenient in other places. The bottom line is, when you make such ridiculous statements (not to mention how liberally the word "barbaric" was thrown around), you have the absolute right to say them, obviously; but you lose a ton of credibility and good will that was gained during the first half+ of the chat. You sound just as extreme as these kids now making hysterical, distorted, and outright cruel comparisons between Nazis and Israel, painting people who believe in realities like sex is binary as intolerant bigots, or claiming that words are literal violence. The hypocrisy meter had work to do here, I'm afraid.

[@DrDivago]

Why do you say all these inaccuracies and simplifications about Marcuse's thought? Marcuse has nothing to do with the anti-democratic anti-intellectualism of "cancel culture." In fact, Adorno himself, one of Marcuse's most prominent colleagues, had already written that in the future the fascists will return in the name of anti-fascism. This kind of statements you contribute to spread are caused by Jordan Peterson and his nonsenses, he's the one attacking Marcuse and the Frankfurt School as "communists" -- gosh does Mr. P. believe we are still in the '50s under Joe McCarthy? It is obvious, for those who do not want to spread ideology, that Marcuse, in his critique, was referring to the prevention of genocidal right-wing extremism of the Nazi type. If you will allow me, this seems to me a legitimate position for someone who escaped the Holocaust. We can -- and should -- certainly discuss and criticize it, but not dismiss such a thinker in such ways. Thus you do a disservice to the truth. Why misinform instead of inform? Why not talk seriously as much about Marcuse as about the Frankfurt School? Perhaps because they warned as early as the 1940s of the disaster that society would become by continuing on that path? We desperately need to get back to thinking together, not uncritically repeating what certain ignorant gurus claim. I always wonder why so many have this attraction to this Peterson character, someone who has lied to you for years about his condition as a drug addict and passes for you as an intellectual. Curiously enough, this lowering of the intellect was also already predicted by the Frankfurt sages. In the end you play the same game as the "culture industry" (another Frankfurt School concept). Ours is a really sad and unthinking age. Best regards, S.C.

[@EricMHowardII-yh1rn]

Black Lives matter 2020 calendar year.

[@skipjacks85]

Hilariously ironic - these are the hard truths that need to be told to save our youth from the malevolent Academy - both feel compelled to obsequiously proclaim that they don’t like Trump in a feeble & pellucid attempt to preserve their academic bonafides.

[@DadSavesAmerica]

Interesting take. I actually waited tables at Trump Marina in Atlantic City during school. I like how hard he punches as an east coast guy myself. But he’s also an unprincipled, narcissist that acts disgracefully on the public stage and who stiffed his vendors so many times that they would only take COD. But I voted still for him in 2020 as a less-evil choice since his policy record was much better than I expected it would be and holy cow the lockdown fascists and identity crowd really went nuclear on the other side (I didn’t vote in 2016 because I hated the choices and thought he was a scam artist liar, which he mostly is). But that also didn’t matter because no individual vote matters technically. But he also doesn’t care about anyone more than himself (and his family, which is admirable, but his sleeping around on multiple is repulsive). I really wish we had better options. More complex than you probably thought, right? Our politics is trash. Politics in general is trash. But people aren’t all trash. Not in real life where our choices directly matter. That’s why everything on this channel is about what we can do in our lives and for our kids with the choices that actually matter to make this country better. Do you want your kids to grow up and behave like Trump or Biden? I sure as hell don’t. I would be absolutely ashamed of myself and him.

[@zozmachine]

I'm someone who is extremely sympathetic to the overall argument. But yours and your guest's really astonishing ignorance of Marxist ideas and the *strong* free speech tradition in Marxism really, really hurts your argument. If you can be this wrong about a huge field of study with 150 years of literature and evidence that you just ignore and mock (although it's clear you haven't read it), your claims to ideological neutrality are weakened. Have on a Marxist, maybe Richard Wolff, to explain it to you and your viewers. You'd learn a lot.

[@DadSavesAmerica]

Thanks for the comment and for being open-minded. I'm more familiar with Marx's core arguments than most. I co-wrote a rap battle pitting Marx vs. Mises. On the technical level, I don't see how Marxist ideas are remotely compatible with free speech. State ownership of the means of production means state control of speech, which is why we've seen the worst attacks on expression in the most marxist regimes. I've interviewed Richard Wolff in the past. Sorry. Not even remotely impressed. Lots of grandstanding and bulldozing. Not a lot of listening or discourse.

[@zozmachine]

You haven't any familiarity with Marx's core arguments. When and where does he say literally anything about the state owning things? Marx and Engels won major free speech lawsuits in 1848 as journalists during the revolutions. You are 100% straw manning if you portray Marx as being pro-state in any way. He spent his inheritance buying arms for those who wanted to dismantle the state. He and Engels defined the state as just armed men acting in the full interest of the ruling class. Marxism through Lenin 's time looks forward to the withering away of the state entirely. Free speech is a core tenet of Marxist thought. I really just can't take your argument seriously the way you present it.

[@richardzellers]

You interrupt toooooooo much.

[@seanbeers5691]

What a joke. "the red scare was good actually but boohoo waaah cancel culture" Repost the same ancient image of someone screaming at college again and rake in the cash.

[@3Zeddy2]

1: Social media most important(of course it is in your mind because you are using the same epistemology that got us here) This is a proximate cause, and it's so not important it could be covered in less than a chapter, a few sentences really. However if it was my book I dedicate a chapter to men like you who called the printing press a danger to us as well. 2:Political polarization(that's a proximate cause. The distal cause is philosophy since Kant considering the subjective the objective, and therefore the cause is a lack of a conception of an objective reality and therefore fear of the inability to deal with it.) 3:"Lack of free play" regardless of the order this is right, but it's a proximal cause. "paranoid parenting" as a result of not having a conception of an objective reality and therefore unable to reason about it validly. 4:"campus ideology" true, which is proximate cause. 5: "weird compact with kids" this is the mystic ethics of altruism, a cause of the underlying epistemology. Dm me and I can help you write your next book. (only experience writing is some college and social media) Read Ayn Rand and her contemporaries, non-fiction.

[@samij6071]

Saying "The New Left" and "Maoist" in the same breath shows how much depth you are lacking in this coversation. The "New Left" is distinct in it's EMBRACE of post-modernism and REJECTION of much Marxist (let alone MAOIST) thinking. You may want to pick up a book on The Congress of Cultural Freedom bc you are out of your depth here - and you could see the flicker of pain across Greg's face when you say it. You aren't researching outside of your echo chamber, whichis why you fundamentally do not understand the garbage polluting the minds of a lot of young people - and that's why you're uneuipped to fight against it. Saying things like "Global Govts treated people like slaves during COVID" probably doesn't help much either. But hey.....go off.

[@tomtoss2463]

I bet you are right wing. You need to be cancelled. Have a nice day!

[@DadSavesAmerica]

🤣

[@tomtoss2463]

@@DadSavesAmerica You got me. I am a contrarian.

[@Nicksonian]

The author says that he’s uncomfortable about the “it being about me.” That is precisely the problem with the host. I’ve watched one “Dad” video and this is the second and there’s just way too much “me” and “my son.” Anecdotal evidence brings people in, but is scientifically meaningless. While I tend to have some agreement, the host comes across as too much of a narcissistic know-it-all. And the overly slick video production just distracts.

[@acuerdox]

Cope

[@terrybarreneche7388]

The reason all of this is happening is because we have rejected the Judeo-Christian God of our Forefathers. We are on the verge of judgement. The aborted infant's blood is crying out to God for justice, just as Abel's blood did. 😢 Repent, and return to God.

[@donpoole8617]

The kids are fine. Donald Trump is proof that this country has lost its mind.

[@andreaspeper383]

Check your antics. Calm your voice and speach. Speak less. There are so many people doing a better job at this, just watch and listen. No need to display to be having a cool conversation. Pick cool guests and let them speak 🤍

[@DadSavesAmerica]

Thanks for the feedback. I was definitely more, shall we say, PASSIONATE on this issue.