i'm glad i could make it to the meeting
tonight it's my first meeting my name's
doug i feel like we're like alcohol hi
dog
hi doug
hi i am a recovering socialist
um on the 12 step program actually 12
rules for life
jordan peterson baby
um
quick question
does your organization is this the one
that has the list of professors bingo
professor watchlist
the first blush not knowing more about
it it sounds a little mccarthyistic can
you please explain
sure so thank goodness perception should
not always be reality um the professor
watch list has been and continues to be
one of our more controversial projects
but it shouldn't be um we started it in
november of 2016 a couple weeks after
the election uh mostly because i was
getting tips and complaints from our
student activists on nearly a thousand
campuses across the country of how they
were being wrongfully targeted but how
they're being ostracized and silenced in
lecture halls across the country and i
started to tell people about it members
of the media and they kind of discounted
it and i don't think they gave
appropriate amount of coverage to what
was really happening and so we took it
to the next step let's say well let's
start aggregating this information and
use other pre-existing news sources
third party verified whether it be
school newspapers huffington post
msn.com of these things that these
professors have done and have said and
the different i'll make a huge
distinction right off the bat i mean
we're actually showing you our list
mccarthy never actually did any sort of
list whatsoever for those of you that
are students of history the second of
which these professors should be
thanking us we're making their thoughts
and ideas that they consider to be so
brilliant public to the entire world
word for word
verbatim
that's why i love smartphones and and
people don't understand how bad it's
gotten there there was a high school in
america where after trump won they made
the students who supported trump get up
in front of the class and apologize to
their classmates and tell them tell
their classmates promise them that they
weren't racists that is absolutely
abhorrent that's abhorrent right and and
thank thankfully we live in this era of
smartphones where if you can capture
something like that all we're doing is
making these professors famous their
ideas are so amazing and so great that
we want to share them with the world
we're not saying fire these professors
we're not we're not asking for anything
to be done we don't say if you're on
this list get fired we're saying look at
these amazing ideas what do you guys
think about them it's not professor
blacklist it's not professor hitler's
it's just watching and by the way we got
one here at stanford you got a real
beauty so you guys can check that out
thank you thank you both very much thank
you
thank you for the question