Dda da da da da da da. What's up brother? Welcome back. Hey so good to see the

Godfather. I'm back. You're one of the few college professors that have a sense of

humor about yourself like that.

Well you can joke around about that.

Exactly.

It's, it's, um, I was talking to you before the show started about this recent article in the Atlantic and as soon as I saw it I'm like oh this is just

right up your alley and it's the coddling of the American mind and this article is all

about one of the things that you have been talking about a lot lately and it's been on

a lot of people's minds that work in academia because it's it's very confusing and it's very frustrating but there's severe limitations on the

words that you can use and the thoughts even that you can have and this article is all about

trigger warnings and that in one case here's here's in there were professors listen to this law students were asking fellow

professors at Harvard not to teach rape law and in one case even use the word violate as in that violates the law

lest it cause distress. This is the article is called the coddling of the

American minds and the newest version of the Atlantic.com

It's just a couple of days old and it is it's fucking crazy. What's going on with kids today and this this article gets into it

and one of them was about something that there's a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym and he wrote an essay for Vox called

I'm a liberal professor and my liberal students terrify me.

Right. What the fuck is going on? Like what is going on

where people are getting in trouble for words like violate? Right. Well by the

way one of the authors of that article is a good friend of mine who is the director of fire.

I can't remember the name of the acronym, what the acronym stands for, but he basically goes around,

his organization goes around trying to protect freedom of speech

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