“my participation because my commentary has been “focused on the idea of cancel culture”

Greg Lukianoff:

“We knew that this would be a case so unpopular, that it might very well lead to the failure of FIRE because, essentially, we knew that at that young age, defending someone that unpopular, that might mean that nobody would want to donate to us anymore,” he added. 

“And we said, ‘OK if this is the end at the beginning, we can live with that,’ and had a motto come out of it that said, ‘We’d rather crash this bus into a wall rather than be unprincipled.’”