Ep. 53 - Gen Z Politics: Surviving Campus Extremism with Dino Fantegrossi

And I got to college.

Well, we'll back up, I guess, a little bit.

We'll go to high school first.

I went to Little Rock Central High and we started a chapter of like the Central High Republicans.

And of course, you know, teenage kids.

So we were a bit of troublemakers.

And I, you know, we kind of got in a bit of trouble for saying that the Central High newspaper was fake news.

Really? Yeah, we went all in on that and we were just bashing them and throwing them around a little bit.

And so they came out and they're like, you need to apologize or we're not going to let you be a club anymore.

High school drama.

And for those for those in my audience that are outside of Arkansas, that he is talking about the famous Little Rock Central High School, infamous in some ways, but forever.

1957, 1958 with integration, but actually very much known as a tremendous institution of learning.

And yet you describe yourself as a troublemaker.

I don't think you'd know this about me.

I was the editor of my high school newspaper.

So I can see the drama that you created by calling it fake news.

How did that turn out for you?

Well, so what we had done is we kind of struck up a deal where like, well, we wouldn't say it was fake news if there were like more conservatives talking in the school newspaper.

And so they kind of they actually let me write a couple of guest articles in the school newspaper in exchange for that apology.

And so the first one I did was on free speech limitations.

Of course, just to, you know, kind of poke a little bit.

But really, I talked about some of the various practices in a lot of states.

And of course, this might be an issue that gets brought up later.

But one of the ones I brought up was I view it as a type of viewpoint discrimination for governments, be it Arkansas, Texas, national government, to say public officials have to swear a statement that they won't boycott the nation of Israel.

Right.

And I got to college.

Well, we'll back up, I guess, a little bit.

We'll go to high school first.

I went to Little Rock Central High and we started a chapter of like the Central High Republicans.

And of course, you know, teenage kids.

So we were a bit of troublemakers.

And I, you know, we kind of got in a bit of trouble for saying that the Central High newspaper was fake news.

Really? Yeah, we went all in on that and we were just bashing them and throwing them around a little bit.

And so they came out and they're like, you need to apologize or we're not going to let you be a club anymore.

High school drama.

And for those for those in my audience that are outside of Arkansas, that he is talking about the famous Little Rock Central High School, infamous in some ways, but forever.

1957, 1958 with integration, but actually very much known as a tremendous institution of learning.

And yet you describe yourself as a troublemaker.

I don't think you'd know this about me.

I was the editor of my high school newspaper.

So I can see the drama that you created by calling it fake news.

How did that turn out for you?

Well, so what we had done is we kind of struck up a deal where like, well, we wouldn't say it was fake news if there were like more conservatives talking in the school newspaper.

And so they kind of they actually let me write a couple of guest articles in the school newspaper in exchange for that apology.

And so the first one I did was on free speech limitations.

Of course, just to, you know, kind of poke a little bit.

But really, I talked about some of the various practices in a lot of states.

And of course, this might be an issue that gets brought up later.

But one of the ones I brought up was I view it as a type of viewpoint discrimination for governments, be it Arkansas, Texas, national government, to say public officials have to swear a statement that they won't boycott the nation of Israel.

Right.