Hello ladies, hello gentlemen, this is the Victor Davis Hansen show. I'm Jack Fowler. Victor, the star, namesake is the Martin and Eli Anderson senior fellow with the Hoover institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale.

College, you know, Hoover is located at Stanford University. That is. And the big ISOR, right? There's these, and you see Stanford people look at that beautiful tower and think, if only we can get rid of this man that comes up all the time. Why is that tower in postcards of our university?

And I can tell you firsthand that almost every year I get a letter from my syndicate or do you really work for Stanford University? And I said, that's who signs my checks and they say, we're getting a lot of alumni and professors from campus claiming that you're lying that you're affiliated with Stanford.

I mean, they turn on Fox and they get so furious when they listen to this podcast and they claim that Hoover is completely autonomous promises. I wish you were used to be almost, but unfortunately ever more closely, it's now merged.

I mean, it always was part of Stanford, but we had right some firewall, but they are collapsing were much more integrated with Stanford as far as our fellows go. I think we're up to about 75% of the fellows are joint appointments.

So it's part of Stanford and they do not like that when they see people like Scott Atlas or Shelby steel or Tom Soul or myself having affiliation Stanford and what happens is somebody is walking, you know, walking along the airport or in a hotel and happened to see a Fox news or they happen to read a column and it says Hoover institution Stanford University and they say, oh my God, I graduated from Stanford.

That's not can't be true. And then I think on a couple occasions, I've had to send, you know, a copy of my contract and stuff to show that I was employed by Stanford.

These people are very strange people, the left wing by coastal wealthy elite and they're so prestige conscience and snobby that they feel that even though they've done more damage to the Stanford name, we'll get into that in a second, but nevertheless they go after Hoover affiliates.

They can be no room for anyone who is not totally complicit with the ideology of the left. So no room on campus. Well, there is for the time being who knows when in 20 years or now, if Hoover wasn't part of Stanford anymore, if witherspoon or some of these other institutes, the Robbie George has say at James Madison center at Princeton, if they were totally ruled out, would anyone be surprised.

I don't think so, but we're going to talk Victor about Ray Stanford. There are two matters that are newsworthy of recent and one is that they Stanford IT department or cabal, whatever the hell has created this document called the elimination of harmful language initiative and we're going to get your thoughts on this, Victor, right after these important messages.

We'll back with the Victor Davis Hansen show this podcast finds it's happy home at just the news.com John Solomon's website and Victor has his own website. It's is official website. It's Victor Hansen.com and we'll talk about that little later in the podcast. So Victor, I have a feeling most people who have who listen to this show have probably heard the news sometime last week that the Stanford IT department.

It's a good point for the IT community information technology. It's it's IT community. It's not like the modern language department weirdos or they don't know that.

Yeah, that's a very good point. Yeah, that they've created. This is started earlier this year, but this whole campaign titled the elimination of harmful language initiative.

You can't say the word American. You shouldn't say the word American. You could say US citizen, which I find funny Victor, because they bring up citizenship. But don't don't say don't say that the whole host of of don't say disabled say this or that.

Victor, the control of language, the abuse of language is so much part and parcel of the ideology of the left. This is another manifestation of it. What are your thoughts?

Well, I mean, the left used to be very, very careful that they would never, never be associated with Georgia or Wells 1984. So they used to remind us that, you know, every time the Pentagon said there was collateral damage in Vietnam, they would say that say or well, you know, that it's sanitary, whether than thousands of people were killed when the bomb missed.

And so, you know, they didn't say things like good thing or double think or newspeak or crime think all that stuff.

And they do now they've become what they hate it. And this list of words was pretty, I mean, they had things like you can't say sold down the river.

Maybe you heard somebody say he sold him down the river because that was originally supposedly a term use of slaves that were sold from broken apart in their families, etc. And you're not supposed to say abusive relationship because that's neutral.

You have to have an abuser and abused, but they got attention because basically they got rid of two words. One was American because they felt that that privileged Americans in the United States and other people were Americans.

Of course, they never really told us that other people don't identify as Americans people in Mexico call themselves Mexicans because they feel that is the word not Aztec, but Mexican is the real word that was indigenous.

So of Naho to languages someone Cortez came, you know, they he met the Mexico, not the Aztecs.

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