Defend Your Right to Speak: The Battle for Free Opinion | Greg Lukianoff (Replay)

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🗓️ 20 July 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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On this episode of Conversations with Tom, New York Times best-selling author and President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) Greg Lukianoff joins Tom Bilyeu to discuss such matters and more as they discuss the importance of protecting free speech today and why so many are blinded by the movement to destroy it. They discuss the controversial aspects of free speech in today’s world, the power of the documentary ‘Mighty Ira,’ why you should defend your enemy’s right to freely speak, why today’s generation has gravitated towards policing free speech, how colleges have changed over time, why children need to feel a sense of freedom when it comes to ideas and thought, the dangers of political correctness and woke culture, and much more. [Original air date: 2-18-21]. SHOW NOTES: Journey | Greg reveals his journey to finding his passion for the first amendment. [0:12] Controversial | Greg reveals why some aspects of today’s free speech are controversial. [11:52] Mighty Ira | Greg discusses the incredible impact of the ‘Mighty Ira’ documentary. [12:46] Defend Your Enemy | Greg reveals why it’s important to always fight for free speech. [16:43] Boundaries | Greg reveals why losing free speech can be a slippery slope. [21:55] Youth | Greg reveals how today’s younger generations approach free speech. [25:19] Destruction | Greg reveals how today’s college students aim to destroy free speech. [31:00] Social Media | Greg reveals how social media has influenced free speech. [34:08] Meanness | Greg reveals how we should approach bullying and meanness. [39:19] Dangers | Greg reveals why he fears centralized authority. [44:25] Benefits | Greg reveals the benefits of overcoming the pains of free speech. [47:32] Empowerment | Greg reveals why people need to overcome their anxieties and fears. [50:38] Rise | Greg reveals how we can encourage today’s generation to fight for free speech. [1:02:30] Woke | Greg reveals how today’s woke culture is undermining upper education. [1:07:23] Blinded | Greg reveals why so many are blinded to today’s war on free speech. [1:11:52] Mindset | Greg reveals the power of having an open mindset to new possibilities. [1:19:37] The Future | Greg reveals where he thinks we’re heading as a society. [1:31:50] ***Are You Ready for EXTRA Impact?*** If you’re ready to find true fulfillment, strengthen your focus, and ignite your true potential, the Impact Theory subscription was created just for you. *New episodes delivered ad-free, EXCLUSIVE access to hundreds of archived Impact Theory episodes, Tom AMAs, and so much more!* This is not for the faint of heart. This is for those who dare to learn obsessively, every day, day after day. *****Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3PCvJaz***** Subscribe on all other platforms (Google Podcasts, Spotify, Castro, Downcast, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podcast Republic, Podkicker, and more) : https://impacttheorynetwork.supercast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody, welcome to another episode of Conversations with Tom. I am here with Greg
0:07.6	Luke Yonoff. Greg, welcome to the show man. Great, let's do it. Thanks for
0:11.8	having me. Dude, I'm really excited about this.
0:14.0	So I had first encountered you through you co-authoring,
0:18.0	Coddling of the American Mind, which was an extraordinary book for me
0:21.0	as somebody with a lot of employees that were much younger
0:24.2	than me it really helped me begin to re-contextualize sort of how they'd come up.
0:27.6	We will definitely talk about that but the part that I didn't see coming when I first
0:31.4	started researching you was all the First Amendment work and the documentary
0:36.1	mighty IRA which I had probably heard his name before but didn't really know about him and his time at the ACLU and you know all the stuff that
0:45.4	shook down in like Skokie Illinois and the Nazis marching there it's like really crazy
0:50.7	how at the absolute center of the First Amendment free speech you really are and I'm
0:56.4	really curious one how do you describe yourself and then two I want to know how you ended up as a First Amendment attorney.
1:04.3	Oh, wow, that's a long story.
1:07.2	Hmm.
1:08.2	I, well, I describe myself still as a political liberal, but I think that I'm a little bit of a retro in the sense of
1:15.1	I'm like probably a liberal circuit, circuit 1983, you know, it is sometimes the way I think of it.
1:21.6	But the way I came to free speech, you know I'm a very proud
1:25.8	first-generation American. My grandfather fought in the Bulch Revolution. We were we
1:32.0	could have been labeled kulox because we were peasants who made good. My great-great-grandfather
1:37.1	meaning you were successful. So having read the Gulag archipelago, like what ends up happening to the Kulox is pretty terrifying.
1:46.0	Yeah, and it's kind of funny because in any other country, they were, that's a success story. Peasants who were slaves until late 1861 to start doing well.
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