Hey everybody, it's James Lindsay, this is the New Discourses Podcast.

Thank you for listening.

I'm going to do what I do sometimes.

I'm going to take an article that I published here on New Discourses and read it to you effectively.

I want to give you the context of this.

The title of this that I recently published is Intersectionality is American Maoism.

I think that's the correct assessment, give you the history of why this or the context

or why this article got written.

I got invited recently, and I'm not going to tell a bunch of the story.

It's maybe interesting, but I don't want to bog this down.

I kind of invited recently to speak at Northwestern University, which is one of the top 10 universities

in the country.

It's just outside of Chicago in Evanston, Illinois.

It's a very elite, very expensive, very elite university, and I got invited by the Young

America's Foundation, YAF, to speak there, and the students were pissed when they tried

to do a protest.

They first, they tried to just use crap that they found on me on the internet that's inaccurate

and whatever, like my Wikipedia and my funny Southern Poverty Law Center profile to try

to get me canceled before the event, but that didn't work.

They showed up in large numbers protesting, which turns out that the student government

paid for their protest materials if they wish to do so and encouraged it, which is sort

of scandalous, especially given what happened next.

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