Name: Joe Rogan Experience #681 - Gad Saad
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #681 - Gad Saad' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-08-12. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #681 - Gad Saad

Da-da-da, da-da-da...
What's up, brother? Welcome back.
Hey, so good to see you. Good to be back.
The Gadfather.
I'm back.
You're one of the few college professors that has a sense of humor about
yourself.
Like that, where you can joke around about that.
Exactly.
I was talking to you before the show started about this recent article in The
Atlantic,
and as soon as I saw it, I'm like, "Oh, this is just right up your alley."
It's the coddling of the American mind, and this article is all about one of
the things that you have been talking about a lot lately,
and it's been on a lot of people's minds that work in academia because it's
very confusing and it's very frustrating,
but there's severe limitations on the words that you can use and the thoughts
even that you can have,
and this article is all about trigger warnings, and that in one case, here's...
Professors, listen to this.
Law students were asking fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law,
and in one case even used the word violate, as in that violates the law lest it
cause distress.
The article is called The Coddling of the American Mind.
It's in the newest version of TheAtlantic.com.
It's just a couple of days old, and it's fucking crazy what's going on with
kids today.
And this article gets into it, and one of them was about something that there
was a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym,
and he wrote an essay for Vox called "I'm a liberal professor and my liberal
students terrify me."
Right.
What the fuck is going on?
Like, what is going on where people are getting in trouble for words like
violate?
Right.
Well, by the way, one of the authors of that article is a good friend of mine
who is the director of FIRE.
I can't remember the name of the acronym, what the acronym stands for, but he
basically goes around,
his organization goes around trying to protect freedom of speech, First
Amendment, at campuses,
precisely because of the unbelievable chilling effect of these types of, you
know, lunacy movements.
It's very strange, and you know what else is strange?
It seems like you're not allowed to be conservative in a university.
And by conservative, I don't mean restrictive of other people's liberties, like
anti-gay rights or anti-choice or anti...
I'm talking about fiscally conservative.
Right.
I'm talking about, you know, being a person who has the ideas that some in the
Republican Party espouse.
You're not allowed to.
I'm not sure if we discussed this before, but even if we did, it's worth
repeating.
I talked about an article that was done by some colleagues of mine, I don't
know them well, but some academics,
where they looked at the political affiliation of professors at top, I think it
was Californian schools,
whether they identified it or whether they actually had Democratic affiliation
or Republican.
And as you might imagine, it was extraordinarily skewed towards Democrats, but
then depending on the field of study.
So, for example, in sociology and in the humanities and in women's studies,
women with a Y, by the way, please don't write women with an E.
That would be sexist.
Really?
Is that real?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oftentimes, in women's studies, they think that to have men as part of the word
women is itself a form of aggression.
So, they've altered the spelling to women.
Oh, no.
That's not real.
You see...
Oh, no.
No.
Your audience already has the price of admission covered with that story.
Yeah, but it's still the word women.
Right.
So, anyways...
It's still the same word.
Why do you have to change the letters?
So, in sociology...
Do you change the word trigger because it sounds like the N-word?
Uh-oh.
Well...
Seriously.
Right, right, right.
You're getting triggered.
I'm triggered.
I'm triggered.
Well, I'm fucking triggered.
And if I was black, I'd be super triggered.
Well, I don't know if you noticed some of my tweets now.
Whenever I tweet anything, I put trigger warning, trigger warning.
It's now become part of the vernacular to make it satirical.
It's too close to the N-word.
Way too close.
I'm triggered.
But anyways, to finish the point about that study, 44 to 1, the ratio in
sociology.
So, imagine if you are a student doing an undergrad in sociology, right?
It's not a very good thing to have almost all of the professors that you will
ever come
across be of one particular persuasion.
Now, some people will write to me and say, "But what do you mean?
The Democrats have everything right.
They have truth on their side.
And the Republicans are a bunch of hacks."
Now, when it comes to evolution, that's true, right?
If, on average, Republicans are more likely to deny evolution, then that point
is well
taken.
But when it comes to issues, is the death penalty right or wrong?
What kind of fiscal policy should you have?
What type of foreign policy should you have?
This is not a one plus one scientific equation.
So, you should be exposed to multiple viewpoints.
But, of course, you shouldn't be because you should only interact with people
who are similar
to you.
Well, that is a problem with a lot of people that go to college, graduate, get
their PhD,
get their doctorate, and then start teaching and never enter the real world.
Right.
They stay in this sort of insulated world of academia, and then they espouse
these same
ideas.
They promote these same ideas.
They promote the same way of thinking as if this is the real world because this
is the
only world they know.
True.
So, one of the things about comedians is a lot of them are like really crazy
and fucked
up, and they do a lot of drugs, and they're just out of control and nuts, and
they kind
of forget that other people aren't like that.
And sometimes I'll bring like one of my regular friends around like the comedy
store, and they're
around some of my comedian friends that are fucking crazy, and they'll go, "Jesus
Christ,
these guys just talk about ridiculous shit that they did like it's no big deal."
And I'm like, "Well, in their world, it isn't a big deal."
Right.
In their world, this is the normal world, and everyone else is a civilian.
Right.
That's how they look at it.
That's how, you know, the quote unquote "hardcore" comedians look at it.
Right.
I think in academia, you have a similar sort of a situation.
Absolutely.
Where they really do believe in microaggressions.
They think that microaggressions are real.
There was a fucking, this is one of the parts of the article that was really
hilarious.
There was, they were trying to raise awareness about microaggressions.
But in doing so, in raising awareness for microaggressions, they had to give
examples of these microaggressions, which triggered people.
And so...
It's an infinite loop of victimology.
So this guy had to apologize.
Right.
He had to apologize for triggering people with his microaggression examples.
Unbelievable.
And some of them were like, aren't you all supposed to be good at math to
Asians?
Right.
Like that's, that is a microaggression.
I mean, is it a microaggression to say good things?
This is what confuses me.
Because like, if you said to a black guy, you guys all have big dicks, right?
Is that a microaggression?
Because isn't that saying that...
Well, it's perpetuating racial stereotypes.
Right.
It is.
But isn't it a good stereotype?
Everybody wants a big dick.
Right, right.
Allegedly.
Right.
Here's another microaggression that I thought was hilarious.
I'm colorblind.
I don't see race.
Right.
That's a microaggression.
So you should see race.
Yes, you should see race.
So Stephen Colbert, when he says he doesn't see race, he is engaging in microaggressions.
It's a microaggression.
There you go.
American, the word American, by the way, is an aggression.
American's an aggression?
Yeah.
How's that?
Well, because you're usurping all of the Americas to imply that it's only the
United States of America.
So by saying that it's America, it's as if the rest of the countries don't
exist.
Pew!
Wow.
One of them is America is the land of opportunity.
That is a microaggression.
Why is that one offensive?
It doesn't make any sense.
All right.
Here's another microaggression.
I believe the most qualified person should get the job.
Oh, that's elitist.
That's a meritocracy.
That's bad.
How is that possible?
How could it be bad for the most qualified person to get a job?
Isn't that the whole idea of job applications?
You're so elitist.
How do you?
We have a sponsor for this podcast called ZipRecruiter.
And one of ZipRecruiter's things is if they're trying to fill out a job, it
allows you to post to 100 plus job sites with one click.
And the idea is to find the most qualified candidate, which would in turn get
you the best person for the job, which is a microaggression.
Right.
So ZipRecruiter is a microaggression company.
God.
How horrible.
It's lunacy.
I mean, you wonder if at some point there'll be some sort of auto correction of
all this.
I would hope so.
Right.
I think that that is what's going on with a lot of our culture.
I think what a lot of our culture is, is an auto correction for the ignorance
and hypocrisy of like the 60s and the 70s and the 80s.
And so we're going way the other way.
Right.
You know, with like, did you see Bernie Sanders' speech get interrupted for
Black Lives Matter?
I did.
Like, who doesn't think Black Lives Matter?
Right.
I mean, I want someone who doesn't think Black Lives Matter to speak.
Because all I've heard is people who agree Black Lives Matter.
I mean, everybody agrees.
I don't know anybody who doesn't think that these shootings or the police
shootings are horrific.
But to interrupt a guy who is easily the most liberal.
That's what I was going to say.
Exactly.
Out of all the candidates for president.
A guy who is the most diverse.
A guy who marched with Martin Luther fucking King.
Yeah.
He marched in the civil rights movement.
He's been a civil rights advocate since the 1960s.
And they interrupt his presidential speeches.
You know, I have a theory that a lot of these folks, you know, are the Che Guevara
wearing t-shirt wearing guys, right?
Yes.
They want to feel part of a greater cause.
Yes.
So even though many of those battles have passed them by, they've been won.
I mean, right?
Civil rights.
I mean, of course, there's still racism.
But in terms of institutionalized endemic racism, we certainly are much better
than we were 50 years ago.
But yet, you know, they're young kids.
They're revolutionary.
They're wearing Che Guevara.
You know, viva la revolution.
And they have to engage in this kind of behavior.
30 years from now, they'll watch that YouTube clip and they'll think they're a
bunch of buffoons.
I think that's a very valid possibility.
I think another possibility is that when you look at people and they're trying
to find, like, causes to support, I think there's a lot of people out there
that are just fucking assholes.
Right.
And what they're doing is trying to find something that allows them to get out
that asshole aggression and be justified.
Right.
You know, something that allows them to be righteous, like, "Black lives matter,
you fucking piece of shit!"
And they're screaming at someone who believes black lives matter.
Right.
Screaming at someone who's not even remotely racist.
Right.
But they will yell it in your face the way they did at this Bernie Sanders
thing in order to just get their rocks off.
Whatever personal frustrations, whatever psychological failures that they have
got bouncing around inside their head.
Whatever closed loop thinking they have.
Right.
They're using these valid points and these things that a lot of people think
about as a sounding board.
Which is why they're the ones who are interrupting.
Right.
It's not that this demands attention at this moment in order to solve a problem,
because there's a fucking fire.
We have to put this fire out right now or people are going to die.
No.
That has nothing to do with that.
It gives them the opportunity to grandstand, to take a moral high ground, and
to scream out and beg for attention.
Right.