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Speaker 1: our part. We came across an unbelievable piece of journalism recently,
Speaker 1: and it is in a student newspaper, the California Aggie,
Speaker 1: the school newspaper for the University California Davis, written by
Speaker 1: a young man named Nick Irvin, about a professor who's
Speaker 1: openly advocating for the murder of police officers. So happy
Speaker 1: to see it in the Sacramento b today, as we
Speaker 1: talked about it yesterday on the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1: Their headline, you see Davis condemns professor's cops remark, one
Speaker 1: would hope let's talk to the the gent who who
Speaker 1: wrote the story broke the news that everybody's talking about.
Speaker 1: Nick Irvin is a senior at the University of California, Davis,
Speaker 1: UM and the associate opinion editor at California Aggie. Uh. Nick, Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for sparing us the time. You've gotta be kind
Speaker 1: of busy these days. Huh yeah, that's right. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of attention after the story came out. So
Speaker 1: I'm happy you guys invited me. Oh yeah, well it's
Speaker 1: our pleasure. So, um, how did you first become aware
Speaker 1: that there is a professor saying that you should murder police.
Speaker 1: It's good to murder police. So I heard about this,
Speaker 1: uh you know around November. Um, there were people in
Speaker 1: the news room who had taken his class. Uh. And
Speaker 1: and what is he teachings? He teaches He's a professor
Speaker 1: of English and comparative literature. Okay, well you can understand
Speaker 1: how shooting cops would come up in an English class.
Speaker 1: Go on, Well, yeah, and so he and so his
Speaker 1: uh you know, political views were known. Um, but I
Speaker 1: didn't really have anything concrete. I you know, the the
Speaker 1: what I heard bothered me. But it wasn't until the
Speaker 1: shooting of Davis police officer Natalie Corona that I really
Speaker 1: sat down and wanted to investigate the story. Right, I
Speaker 1: get that as that horrifying killing of that beautiful young
Speaker 1: woman occurred, you know, just you know, within spitting distance
Speaker 1: the campus. Although I have to say so that shows
Speaker 1: where we are with the the view of college campuses.
Speaker 1: If you hear rumors that there's a professor advocating shooting
Speaker 1: police before a cop gets shot in your own town,
Speaker 1: you just think, well, that's not surprising, you know what
Speaker 1: the way professors are these days. I mean, that's how
Speaker 1: far down the road we are. It's crazy, that's insane.
Speaker 1: So anyway, so you sought to figure out if the
Speaker 1: rumors were true, Um, and what do you do? So
Speaker 1: I looked at this Twitter, and I listened to help
Speaker 1: on colleague to look online for any of these statement
Speaker 1: and I found a couple of his old tweets, and
Speaker 1: I also found a published interview online um that was
Speaker 1: published in that that said word for word that cops
Speaker 1: need to be killed. I'll I have them in front
Speaker 1: of me. Uh. The tweets This is a tweet from
Speaker 1: I am thankful that every living cop will one day
Speaker 1: be dead, some by their own hands, some by others.
Speaker 1: Too many of old age hashtag let's not make more
Speaker 1: and that tweet was still up in en when you
Speaker 1: went to look for it. That's right. Knowing what I
Speaker 1: know about people who have had their Twitter accounts shut down,
Speaker 1: we've had to delete tweets, it's pretty amazing that that
Speaker 1: can stay up on Twitter. Another tweet, I mean it's
Speaker 1: easier to shoot cops when their backs are turned. No,
Speaker 1: and also an SF Weekly interview in asking him what
Speaker 1: he believed was wrong with society, he replied, people think
Speaker 1: that cops need to be reformed, they need to be killed.
Speaker 1: How does that live on Twitter? Everything is so crazy.
Speaker 1: You can say those things in the classroom just kind
Speaker 1: of doesn't really get any attention. It lives out there
Speaker 1: on Twitter for all these years. Nobody really pays any
Speaker 1: attention or Twitter doesn't care. I guess the algorithms missed it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, you're a journalistic. Quest continued, and you actually
Speaker 1: sought out that Marxist professor. How that go? That's right?
Speaker 1: So I emailed him three times, um with all the
Speaker 1: information I wanted. I want to know exactly what he
Speaker 1: meant by these, you know, although I could, you know,
Speaker 1: tell what he meant, but I still wanted his you know,
Speaker 1: his own words, and I want to speak to them
Speaker 1: about this, and uh, he merely he he rebuffed all
Speaker 1: of my attempts to meet with him, and he sent
Speaker 1: me a statement merely reading I think we can all
Speaker 1: agree that the most effective way to end any violence
Speaker 1: against officers is to complete and immediate abolition of the police. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a a reasonable political There's nobody with that political position,
Speaker 1: and nobody it's hard to believe anybody with that stupid,
Speaker 1: unrealistic and unprecedented an idea would be teaching college classes. Now.
Speaker 1: He may be the world's greatest expert on Marxist poetry,
Speaker 1: but that's wild. I mean, that's that's like unicorns. And
Speaker 1: when he's contacted by a reporter, instead of thinking, boy,
Speaker 1: you know, I better kind of soft peddlet here so
Speaker 1: I don't get into trouble, No, it makes an outlandish
Speaker 1: statement like that. What did you think when you got
Speaker 1: that back? Uh? It just you know, I honestly I
Speaker 1: wasn't surprised. Um. You know, it's uh, it seemed to
Speaker 1: line up with his tweets and and the s S
Speaker 1: Weekly interview. Um, and it just kind of clarified that
Speaker 1: he you know, he's like he stood by his remarks.
Speaker 1: He wasn't gonna walk him back at all. And then
Speaker 1: I know you talked to the university about their policies
Speaker 1: employing somebody who is openly advocating the murder of peace officers. Uh,
Speaker 1: what sort of response did you get from the administration?
Speaker 1: So I went in and talk to the provost of
Speaker 1: UC Davis, and they essentially told me that since law
Speaker 1: enforcement is not a protected class under federal statutes like
Speaker 1: Title nine or Title six, that um, what the professor
Speaker 1: had said, um, you know, would be protected by the university.
Speaker 1: As as odious as the provost thought it was, he
Speaker 1: still wanted to ensure that this type of speech was protected.
Speaker 1: So listen, I need to jump in with a bit
Speaker 1: of a tangent there, and I know Nick will forgive us,
Speaker 1: but I want everybody to consider the fact that Title
Speaker 1: nine picks out a number of different classes of people,
Speaker 1: you know, various colors, sexual orientations, gender, that sort of thing,
Speaker 1: and says if you say anything mean about them, then
Speaker 1: you've made it tough for people like that to enjoy
Speaker 1: an education, and therefore you violated federal law and you
Speaker 1: can have your ass booted out of your job. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: whether that's a good policy, well, I think it's a
Speaker 1: terrible policy. But um, whether that's a good policy or not,
Speaker 1: we have an approved list and an okay to call
Speaker 1: for their murder list, which includes everybody not on the
Speaker 1: previous list. If that ain't an example of how bizarre
Speaker 1: and twisted the grievance portion of federal law is, I
Speaker 1: can't think of a better one. So you can. You
Speaker 1: can't say I think a lot of people, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of black people make bad decisions in their lives.
Speaker 1: But you can say we should murder cops. That's title
Speaker 1: nine for you, folks. Hope you're enjoying it anyway. Did
Speaker 1: you happen to contact UM Davis police and say, look,
Speaker 1: this is what a local college professor is saying. Just
Speaker 1: wondered if the chief pedal or anybody would like I
Speaker 1: have a comment on this. Yeah, so, so I did
Speaker 1: not reach out to uh any Davis's police officers. But
Speaker 1: I know I believe in the secondment of the article, UM,
Speaker 1: the Davis chief of police or the you see Davis
Speaker 1: chief police, I believe he made a comment. Yeah, actually
Speaker 1: you See Davis Police Chief Joe Farrell called Clover's comments disappointing.
Speaker 1: Day we mentioned the name of this guy, professor Clover.
Speaker 1: What's his first name, uh, Professor Joshua Clover. Joshua Clover.
Speaker 1: Comass is his first name, dom Mass Clover. The chiefs
Speaker 1: I thought, the sort of podcast you want to be
Speaker 1: associated with, Joe the podcast where the host would call
Speaker 1: the person the particular person a dumbass. I just don't
Speaker 1: think that's nearly strong enough. How do you how do
Speaker 1: you possibly have anybody teaching kids with this point of view?
Speaker 1: How does that even existed America? Here's what the chief said.
Speaker 1: It's his comments are disappointing. I think if you have
Speaker 1: a tea time, you're gonna play some golf and it rains.
Speaker 1: That's disappointing. If you have people teaching your children, we
Speaker 1: should murder cops. That's horrified. She mustard on my shirts.
Speaker 1: I go quoting the chief. Our officers are dedicated professional
Speaker 1: or professionals who have and will continue to rise above
Speaker 1: calls for violence against them. Nonetheless, it's regrettable that they
Speaker 1: have to endure such vile hatred. I always try to
Speaker 1: remain positive. When we are keenly aware of what's going
Speaker 1: on in the nation with the perception of law enforcement.
Speaker 1: We try to understand the criticism and build upon that.
Speaker 1: It's a reminder of myself that there's a lot of
Speaker 1: work to be done. I would suggest that the chief
Speaker 1: is in such a bizarre and untenable situation working for
Speaker 1: a University of California campus, that he has been reduced
Speaker 1: to making a mealy mouthed, silly, useless comment like that.
Speaker 1: In Chief, Look, I'm not going after you personally because
Speaker 1: I have a feeling you're a good guy. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but that comment makes it seem like you are a
Speaker 1: beaten dog. You are so reduced by having the cow
Speaker 1: tow to the nut job faculty that you who are you?
Speaker 1: Look it in the mirror and figure out who you are. Sorry,
Speaker 1: we're doing a lot of editorializing. Port Nick Irvan is
Speaker 1: thinking I'm going to get thrown out of school. Hey,
Speaker 1: you you're you're you're a senior. Um you got he
Speaker 1: got friends? I mean, did they agree with you or
Speaker 1: they're thed you? No students that agree with the professor?
Speaker 1: Professor domass so most of them? Yeah, In fact, all
Speaker 1: of my friends agree with me, Um, and I'm guessing
Speaker 1: they're not all were in maga hats. These friends of
Speaker 1: yours on a college campus. I mean, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's well and it's worth noting. It's start to interrupt Nick,
Speaker 1: and I'd meant to say this at the outset. It
Speaker 1: is balsy journalism that you did. And Nick has not
Speaker 1: written an opinion piece on this guy. It is. It
Speaker 1: is merely and purely his inquiry into who said this,
Speaker 1: how he backs it up in the administration's reaction to it.
Speaker 1: It's really solid, solid journalism. I appreciate it. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so um and the outpoint of support has been really uh,
Speaker 1: it really nice to see you. And I've perceived scores
Speaker 1: and scores of emails, um from people all over the country,
Speaker 1: law enforcement officers, lawyers, UC Davis alumni, um. And they're all, um,
Speaker 1: you know, supporting what I wrote and and they're and
Speaker 1: they're thankful that I wrote it. You know, I got
Speaker 1: uh lectured at a city council meeting in Davis, California
Speaker 1: by the mayor for saying strong things about him on
Speaker 1: the air and then not even calling to ask him
Speaker 1: his opinion. And he was right. So, since I've called
Speaker 1: Professor Clover a dumbass, Hanson, can you reach out to
Speaker 1: Professor Clover and say, come on the show and explain
Speaker 1: your position. Likewise you see Davis Police Chief Joe farroh Um,
Speaker 1: you know, and i'd be If I'm wrong, I'll apologize.
Speaker 1: And it's possible that this be edited his quote. But
Speaker 1: I know what it's like to work in a place
Speaker 1: where you have to twist yourself into a pretzel. Not
Speaker 1: our current circumstances, by the way, things couldn't be better.
Speaker 1: So I just I am having trouble wrapping my head
Speaker 1: around this. So this this Clover man, um, Joshua Clover,
Speaker 1: he like is walking with his backpack to a building
Speaker 1: today to teach people something with those views. Well, so
Speaker 1: he's currently on medical medical leave. UM, so he's not
Speaker 1: teaching right now, but he certainly had a campus presence.
Speaker 1: In fact, a few weeks ago he was tweeting about
Speaker 1: our student government president. So he's certainly around um and
Speaker 1: as he shares, the English Department told me he's in
Speaker 1: good standing with the university. And uh, with his head
Speaker 1: that far up his ass he was suffocating. Was that
Speaker 1: his medical problem? I don't think Nick covered that in
Speaker 1: his article. Jack um let's daring expecting this sort of interview,
Speaker 1: are you? Um? I don't know if he knows the
Speaker 1: show he was, So Nick, I want to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit more about the University of California's faculty Code
Speaker 1: of Conduct and what the various heavyweights told you as
Speaker 1: you were writing your article. UM was it was their unity?
Speaker 1: Was their lockstep unity? Am the powerful that well listen
Speaker 1: to these, uh, professor in good standing and we've prize
Speaker 1: free exchange blah blah blah. Or are there some within
Speaker 1: the university system we think No, that's way over the
Speaker 1: line calling for the killing of cops. Well, it seems
Speaker 1: to be generally consistent. UM. The University California Faculty Code
Speaker 1: of Conduct is one of the guidelines that the UC
Speaker 1: data is academic Senate will use and or the administration
Speaker 1: will use to determine UM, whether you know something that
Speaker 1: a professor says is one of the other sanction or
Speaker 1: not UM. And so yeah, there seems to be unity. UM.
Speaker 1: I talked to one law professor and he's actually the
Speaker 1: chair of the Academic Sense Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility,
Speaker 1: and I keeps talk to him in general terms about
Speaker 1: this UM. This is sort of a lastment addition to
Speaker 1: the article UM and and a quotus in the article. Um,
Speaker 1: he talks about how the further you get away from
Speaker 1: your area of expertise or your research. Uh, the argument
Speaker 1: gets much more tenuous about academic freedom, and so that's
Speaker 1: what I was kind of taken away from that. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so so there was some disconnect, but um, largely it
Speaker 1: seemed at the university would stand by, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: protecting Professor Clover. I'd like to have Professor Clover on
Speaker 1: and ask him. And you know, if I were him,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't come on a show where people call me
Speaker 1: a dumbast either. But I'll say this in case he
Speaker 1: hears it, Professor Glover, I would like to have a
Speaker 1: serious discussion without ad hominem attacks from me. Um, what
Speaker 1: does the world look like without police? I mean, how
Speaker 1: do you how do you see that functioning in society? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would love to hear that. Hey, what's the name
Speaker 1: of the provost who you talked to again, Josh, I'm sorry, Nick.
Speaker 1: The provost is named Ralph Hexter. Okay, because you quote
Speaker 1: him in the article talking about the University of Calicornifornia
Speaker 1: faculty code of conduct and he says that, Um, that
Speaker 1: the provost said that this speech really exhibiting violence was
Speaker 1: not the same as speech calling for specific acts of
Speaker 1: violence against specific people, but saying cops need to be killed.
Speaker 1: So if there there are cops everywhere, well, and and
Speaker 1: and then I would have to believe that the that
Speaker 1: you know, shoe On the other foot, if you had
Speaker 1: some uh, you know, right to life advocate saying all
Speaker 1: pro choice people should be murdered, the world will never
Speaker 1: be good until all pro choice people are gone, I
Speaker 1: doubt that they would have that same point of view. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: that that's not an individual person, that's just a group,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't count as right. If well, or if
Speaker 1: the professor we're teaching his Marxist post poetry and he said, um, well,
Speaker 1: let me just I want to get it exactly right.
Speaker 1: Supporters or whatever you want to know. People think that
Speaker 1: Mexicans need to be reformed, they need to be killed.
Speaker 1: People think that lesbians need to be killed, you know whatever,
Speaker 1: handicapped people need to be killed. The guy wouldn't be
Speaker 1: on campus for one more minute. And the idea where
Speaker 1: you couldn't safely get out of town, well right, the
Speaker 1: idea that they're covered by Title nine, but cops aren't.
Speaker 1: So we gotta keep them around. That just well, you
Speaker 1: know what it is. And and frankly, I don't know what. Well, Nick,
Speaker 1: you're you're just a journalist, and I don't mean that condescendingly.
Speaker 1: You weren't writing editorial. But I think the takeaway from
Speaker 1: the article is the culture of American university, specifically the
Speaker 1: University of California Davis is so twisted and sick and
Speaker 1: ideological that somebody who says these things sticks around. But
Speaker 1: you know, that's just what I took from it. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know what what do you think that? What
Speaker 1: do you think that the big takeaway from your story? Is?
Speaker 1: Nick Irvan, so I, I want to write this because
Speaker 1: I saw a disconnect between the university's alleged to support
Speaker 1: for law enforcement and the fact that they're allowing a
Speaker 1: professor to say these types of things, um, you know,
Speaker 1: while he's representing the university. And so that was, you know,
Speaker 1: the original reason that I started to write this. And
Speaker 1: you know, I I'm just looking to to drive a conversation,
Speaker 1: you know, I want, um, people to start talking about
Speaker 1: you know, what is and what isn't okay to say?
Speaker 1: And for a professor to say, uh in the university
Speaker 1: setting or outside it well, and again it is remarkably
Speaker 1: strained and balanced journalism. Here's one more for instance, professor said,
Speaker 1: I legal immigrants need to be shot, and then an
Speaker 1: illegal immigrant judge shot. People would connect those dots and
Speaker 1: blame that professor for the murder. Yes, you had a
Speaker 1: coast to coast. Every paper in America had a police
Speaker 1: officer murder after these comments. Here's another that. Here's another
Speaker 1: for instance for you, just for the Sagy argument. And
Speaker 1: I'm talking to U. C. Davis administration right now. If
Speaker 1: this poetry professor, this English lip professor, who's an avowed Marxist,
Speaker 1: and you know that's a it's a political theory, and
Speaker 1: he gets to advocate it, um, but I would point
Speaker 1: out that Marxism and it's very softshoots have been responsible
Speaker 1: for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people in
Speaker 1: the last century, hundreds of millions. If he were an
Speaker 1: avowed Nazi, would he still be on campus? You see, Davis,
Speaker 1: I'm asking you specifically, if Professor Clover was an avowed
Speaker 1: Nazi teaching literature and called for the shooting of all
Speaker 1: police officers, would you keep him on campus? If the
Speaker 1: answer is no, get his ass off campus today and
Speaker 1: never invite him back. Is there some flaw in my argument?
Speaker 1: Is there some fallacy in my logic? You see, Davis?
Speaker 1: Please do point it out to me. Uh Nick, anything
Speaker 1: else you want to add, especially before we let you go?
Speaker 1: Uh no, I think we had a really good discussion.
Speaker 1: Well do you do you see this? Uh? Okay, this
Speaker 1: is a blipping time and it goes away? Or do
Speaker 1: more people catch onto this and say say, holy crap.
Speaker 1: I think I think it's going to keep gaining traction.
Speaker 1: I think, um and and I do realize how big
Speaker 1: this would get, um, you know, honestly, but I think
Speaker 1: it should go nationwide. It should be talked about on
Speaker 1: your cable news channels. It hasn't. Yeah, it's yeah, it's
Speaker 1: um Fox News picked it up. Um. Yeah, it's obviously
Speaker 1: the sact B. I've gotten other you know, radio requests.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, for example from a radio show in Iowa.
Speaker 1: Um so yeah, I think, um, you know, the conversation
Speaker 1: is it is just getting started. Anybody from the Washington Post,
Speaker 1: New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, any of
Speaker 1: those people nothing so far? Your journalist again, when making
Speaker 1: the difference between journalists and opinion piece. If if I
Speaker 1: said the University of California Davis is okay with advocating
Speaker 1: the murder of cops, is that too strong? I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's it's certainly implied. I mean it's certainly it's
Speaker 1: certainly implied that by keeping a professor who harbors those police,
Speaker 1: that there's some sort of not. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want to say that the University of California supports killing cops.
Speaker 1: I think that's too far. Don't quickly into his mouth.
Speaker 1: Just sorry, Nick, I'm so sorry. No, I think it's okay.
Speaker 1: What is it? I would say, they're not so they
Speaker 1: don't object to it strongly enough to get rid of
Speaker 1: somebody who says it. That's saying it's okay. Look look
Speaker 1: at every boycott in America where advertisers pull from a
Speaker 1: show or or you know, any organization or whatever. They
Speaker 1: demand it gone, or they see you as advocating for it.
Speaker 1: Agree with you. I just want you to ask, Nick,
Speaker 1: I think it's a fair statement for me to say,
Speaker 1: not Nick, journalists who is a young man, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to the University of California at Davis is
Speaker 1: okay with advocating murdering police. Yes, so refute that. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: Nick Irvan Uh. You see David Senior Associate Opinion Editor,
Speaker 1: California Age and a man with a set of stones
Speaker 1: and a hell of a good journalist. I hope there's
Speaker 1: a bright, bright future in front of Nick. I'll bet
Speaker 1: there is. Thank you very much, thanks for having Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's our pleasure. Stay in touch, my friend. That's freaking incredible.
Speaker 1: I mean, and this is one of the all time
Speaker 1: great examples of the whole shoe on the other foot.
Speaker 1: And you can come up with so many different examples
Speaker 1: of if you said anything even half is strong about
Speaker 1: one of your so called protected groups, you're done. You're done,
Speaker 1: You'll never work again. What about college professors? I don't
Speaker 1: believe there's Title nine protection for college professors. They're not
Speaker 1: a protected class. If you had one college professor advocating
Speaker 1: the murder of college professors, how long would day last?
Speaker 1: You see, Davis, God, come for the bizarre illogic and
Speaker 1: stay for the cowardice America's universities. I am so grateful.
Speaker 1: Two of my kids are done, and one of my
Speaker 1: kids is going to a notably sane and liberty loving
Speaker 1: university because if I were, and I sympathize with you
Speaker 1: folks who are in this situation, because all you want
Speaker 1: is what's best for your kid's future. But I find
Speaker 1: it absolutely to the point of vomiting sickening the idea
Speaker 1: of paying tens of thousands of dollars a year to
Speaker 1: support such a bizarre and and twisted culture. How could
Speaker 1: I possibly have not to mention my tax money. How
Speaker 1: could I possibly even either spend on a ton of
Speaker 1: my my own money or have my kids go six
Speaker 1: figures in debt to a campus that allows that sort
Speaker 1: of talk. I don't know. And the same and the
Speaker 1: same university system just down the road from Davis, California,
Speaker 1: in Berkeley, California, you get to beat up a conservative
Speaker 1: for their words um and and what or or from
Speaker 1: For several years they finally overturned it. Ban anybody to
Speaker 1: the right of you know, Mitt Romney from campus because
Speaker 1: of this ridiculous, childish and stupid claim of those words
Speaker 1: are like violence. They make me feel threatened. I'm triggered.
Speaker 1: It's God, it's just it's so crazy. You know, this
Speaker 1: recalls and I hate to even hit a light note.
Speaker 1: Um at this point, but I can't help it. It
Speaker 1: recalls an off stated principle of the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1: There's nothing more disturbing than you you look over your
Speaker 1: fence and see your neighbor engaged in an act so horrible,
Speaker 1: so reprehensible, so bizarre, you realize I can't even talk
Speaker 1: to him about that act. Engaging in that act is
Speaker 1: proof that they cannot be engaged in a discussion of
Speaker 1: the act. Well, the University California system has gone so
Speaker 1: crazy that I wouldn't even know how to begin the
Speaker 1: conversation with them, unless you know, as I suggested of
Speaker 1: the u C. Davis police chief, he has found himself
Speaker 1: in a position so untenable, and he's aware of it
Speaker 1: that he's become a version of himself that he wouldn't
Speaker 1: really want to defend anyway. It could be there are
Speaker 1: good and decent people in the University of California system
Speaker 1: who understand that they are in never never land and
Speaker 1: and couldn't defend it really And then a separate topic,
Speaker 1: how did those tweets survive on Twitter? With some of
Speaker 1: the many stories we've done of people getting their Twitter
Speaker 1: account shut down. Well, associate of our colleague of ours,
Speaker 1: Chad Benson, had his Twitter account suspended for what did
Speaker 1: he say? That? Was it that illegal immigrants have already
Speaker 1: broken the law or something like that. I remember it
Speaker 1: was innocuous. It was just a point of view, and
Speaker 1: they suspended them for that. But you can say cops
Speaker 1: need to be murdered. Nice to keep working on those
Speaker 1: algorithms there Twitter, police need to be killed. That tweet
Speaker 1: can survive. That's amazing hasn't been taken down yet that
Speaker 1: it's well, yeah, he took the Twitter account private. I believe.
Speaker 1: Um I also, And then this is yet another topic
Speaker 1: I would actually like to have in calm tones, a
Speaker 1: discussion of how people like him view the world. How
Speaker 1: does he think society would run with no police? Yeah? Sure,
Speaker 1: I mean I realize in theory Lenin believed that the
Speaker 1: only reason there are crimes is because our economic system
Speaker 1: is so unfair. People have to make crimes, and if
Speaker 1: you had a more fair economic system, there'd be no criminals. Right,
Speaker 1: But I just actually believe that stuff. Well, and in
Speaker 1: every Marxist society, you not only have police, you've got
Speaker 1: like four different kinds of police keeping an eye on everything.
Speaker 1: Everybody doesn't, says you would think of Marxist professor would
Speaker 1: be aware of that. But he's he He is either
Speaker 1: mentally ill or so thoroughly deluded by his own ideology
Speaker 1: that he's functionally mentally ill, and yet he's employed. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously we're going to try as hard as we can
Speaker 1: to get the Provost of the University of California, Davis,
Speaker 1: on the air and and talk to him about it. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know, I go back to the backyard principle.
Speaker 1: I'm looking over at the fence, and I'm being a
Speaker 1: university university system whose behavior is so bizarre I don't
Speaker 1: even know if they can be reasoned with. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I don't think they can be either. You can't have
Speaker 1: them employed. No, you can't have them employed in saying
Speaker 1: that stuff in front of students and suck it up
Speaker 1: tax dollars and tuition dollars in the rest, whether you
Speaker 1: send your own kid there or not, it's subsidized by
Speaker 1: taxpayers or with the whole state. So yeah, you just
Speaker 1: can't have it. Yeah. Yeah, So you know, I humbling,
Speaker 1: humbly suggest that your hammer you see Davis with your opinions,
Speaker 1: my friends, I'm sure you can find your way to
Speaker 1: the provosts email um or or you know, or tweet
Speaker 1: Adam or they have a Twitter account, whatever, go get them.
Speaker 1: We want to link all that respectful and reasonable. Do
Speaker 1: not do not lower yourselves. We've made it simple for you.
Speaker 1: Hanson's gonna work on that. I'm strong and getty dot
Speaker 1: com and that info will be there for you. I
Speaker 1: don't care where you're listening and where you live. You
Speaker 1: should go ahead and either tweet Adam or email them.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And if it's not at a campus
Speaker 1: near you, wherever you are across the fruited plane, it
Speaker 1: will be very soon or sort of attitude, or it's
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