555 – Topics

00:03 On the right side: Guest: Lindsay Shepherd: celebrity status, consequences to speaking out, being targeted for opinions, environment of safety and comfort for students, university marketing, not about intellectual environment but the social environment, neo-liberal marketing of universities, journey from left to right, the boring left, ruining the fun of others, war of labels, impressions of left and right, academic oppression, cults – not cultures,

20:00 Epistemological approach: Guest: Gad Saad can’t label Gad, The Parasitic Mind, curing the ailment, teaching people how to think, epistemological approach, Charles Darwin’s systematic demonstration of evolution, maladaptive consequence of idea pathogens, pursuing knowledge when facts don’t matter, negating reality, must marginalize the Left, let the data do the talking, gender and sex, empowered by debate, rejecting epistemology, consilience – the unity of knowledge, intellectual nihilism, intellectually shaming the irrational

33:20 Campus insecurity: Guest: David Haskell, Laurier Task Force and Lindsay Shepherd, for maximum free expression on campus, resignation from task force, university policy on security fees, most marginalized voices are conservative – libertarian – right, comparative records of disruption, idea labels and people labels, conservative protesters, left and right on deference to authority, Laurier’s prejudicial policy, covering fees for campus security, preventing a diversity of ideas

50:00 Acadia University’s speech police: Guest: Rick Mehta, freedom of speech in the class, Women in Science and Engineering, Women in Gender Studies, sex differences and gender, critique of feminism, social movements under guise of academic disciplines, trans-activists, tweet to Andrew Sheer, censorship by decolonization, stereotypical views of indigenous peoples, confirmation bias, offended students exempted from attending Mehta’s class

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