
Episode 106: Possibly The Craziest And Most Infuriating #MeToo Story You Will Ever Hear
Plus: People got super mad at a New York Times column about campus free speech
Jesse shares a scandalous episode from his past, the hosts discuss a New York Times op-ed by a college student that generated a deranged and telling response from The Twitter Powers That Be, and Katie tells Jesse about a remarkable #MeToo story she spend many months investigating (which we will post to the show notes when it is actually up). To discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here.
Show notes/Links:
Max Wilbert statement: https://www.protectthackerpass.org/protect-thacker-pass-responds-to-false-statements-made-by-media/
I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/opinion/campus-speech-cancel-culture.html
Froomkin is a jerk:



Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org☮️ @froomkin
Is there any other way for a college student to break into the NYT op-ed pages than to write woke-panic claptrap like this? Complete with citation to bogus far-right-funded poll. And hello, this is UVA we're talking about, I call bs. https://t.co/eerrqvFBQT


Katie’s piece: https://reason.com/2022/03/14/how-an-academic-grudge-turned-into-a-metoo-panic/
Mother Jones on Florian Jaeger: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/09/she-was-a-rising-star-at-a-major-university-then-a-lecherous-professor-made-her-life-hell/
Image: “Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester New York. Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester New York, USA.”