Greg Lukianoff: The ‘Four Great Untruths’ That Are Destroying the West

American Thought Leaders from Epoch TV on 11-18-23: "Bad people sometimes make correct arguments, and good people often make wrong ones. There's kind of no relationship between these two.”
It’s a logical fallacy to say a person’s arguments are all bad simply because they are a bad person, but that’s precisely how cancel culture is destroying productive debate, says Greg Lukianoff.
He’s the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and co-author, with Rikki Schlott, of “The Canceling of the American Mind.”
“One in six professors say they've even been threatened with investigation or actually investigated,” Mr. Lukianoff says, according to a FIRE survey.
In this episode, Mr. Lukianoff breaks down the nature of poorly formed arguments, how they became a dominant form of public discourse, and how to restore meaningful discussion and free speech.