poor people. at princeton and mit. and attempt to cancel a professor giving a college lecture at mit backfires, the professor s name is dorian abbott and he was supposed to give a lecture at mit but they canceled it after students slammed him for saying college admissions should be merit they saying that violates equal treatment to it actors lecture that was going to be on climate and potential life on other planets or had nothing to do with the controversial topic at hand. princeton decided to host him, thousands of people have signed up. professor robert george, princeton professor said i m delighted to report that we ve expanded the zoom quota for doctor dorian abbott, princeton lecture, the one shockingly canceled by mit and literally thousands of people have registered. you left up the literally.
to address the problem. eddie cloud junior is a professor at princeton and he s got an interesting he spoke about this matter. these are the places some people believe that the left over run these spaces, academic freedom or freedom of speech has become a question. there s an effort to discredit the university and a lot of the characterization of the model culture, the canceled culture and so forth that is subscribed to universities is exaggerated. in other words academic freedom, the desire for freedom, this is just a fantasy conservatives have, this doesn t really exist, the canceled culture on campus, is that right? the canceled culture
all corrupt and i am the one person speaking out with the truth. i can drain the swamp. i can fix the system. obviously, he didn t accomplish a lot of that rhetoric, but he has tapped into that sense of resentment, the sense of cultural war as you put it, the idea that there is, you know, an establishment out there that has ripped them off in some fashion. he channels that grievance. i think that s what other republicans are trying to take advantage of, too, that connection that donald trump had in communities that otherwise have been blue states for so long. yeah. and, eddie, professor at princeton, you and i both grew up, at least part of our lives, in mississippi, in one of the reddest of red states. you now are a professor at princeton. you ve seen both sides of that divide. so much of it has to do with
he is not treating covid patients. he is not even the kind of doctor who treats covid patients. he is not an immimmunologyist. he is not a virologist. he has no expertise just because he has doctor in front of his name. does it frighten you that this man is now surgeon general and is saying kids who have been exposed to covid should be able the go maskless to school? well, you have the dr. ladaco, a harvard grad, a and you have myself who studied at princeton. at least princeton is still standing. between those two, they re giving harvard a bad name. i have harvard shame. sorry to hear that. peace be with you. you have these individuals who are coming out of these quote/unquote elite institutions who are highly educated, who are
its board, robert george, who was a professor at princeton, very well thought of as a conservative theorist, paul clement, who s probably the most prominent litigator in front of the supreme court, these people are on the board along with a number of very rich corporate people. they re funding this activity i think because it s so useful. this lie is very useful for enabling a power grab in state legislatures where they re putting through laws and coordinating with the national groups like heritage to crackdown on voting rights. all right. jane mayer, thank you so much for your reporting. so important. we greatly appreciate it. the new reporting is in the issue of the new yorker . thanks for being with us. so it is interesting what jane was telling us at one point and what we ve seen, actually, since