the purpose of this law is not to decide whether a thing you said in class or a thing you said in a protest is antisynetic.

What it does is it puts obligations on the school, right?

And then the school is then pressured, potentially, to crack down on students, faculty, and staff.

And the government then can sort of wash its hands and say, well, we're not responsible,

right? And so the entire idea of the strategy is to use the government to pressure institutions

to punish students, faculty, and staff, and to have that not seem like a violation of the First Amendment.

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Today, however, we're joined by our friend and colleague Darrell Lee, who's associate

professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. Darrell's scholarship addresses

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