The Discourse Lab

Discourse Lab is a podcast dedicated to tackling difficult topics with curiosity and care.

[The Discourse Lab @TheDiscourseLab]

New episode with Nikos Mohammadi & Christina Ma out now!

We discuss their recent article on the Cornell 7, the intense backlash they faced, and how they were betrayed by an organization ostensibly dedicated to open discourse.

[Clayton Smith @_NotYourRealDad]

From my recent guest article in @Sundial_CU.

The only way for CODA to get on the right track is for more courageous, more principled students to take the lead.

[Nikos Mohammadi @Nikos_Mohammadi]

ICYMI, Clayton Smith — former @Sundial_CU senior editor and founder of the Columbia Open Discourse Alliance — on the sad evolution of his brainchild. It’s now an organization that condemns, ehem, yours truly, for perpetuating “rape culture.”

https://t.co/qQdT3ojzcX

[The Discourse Lab @TheDiscourseLab]

How can America develop a healthier sexual culture? Do you think Nikos is on the right track?

#relationships #depravity #abstinence #podcast #hookupculture

[Clayton Smith @_NotYourRealDad]

And CODA was *supposed to be* the organization that facilitated those debates.

[Nikos Mohammadi @Nikos_Mohammadi]

Awesome to have Clay back in our pages.

On how the Columbia “Open Discourse” Alliance, which he founded, has betrayed its mission in condemning me and @Christina_ma4’s recent @Sundial_CU essay on the “Cornell 7” for “promot[ing] rape culture” & “work[ing] to silence survivors.”

[Columbia Sundial @Sundial_CU]

I Founded CODA. It Has Betrayed Its Mission.

Former Sundial staff editor Clayton Smith returns to argue that the Columbia Open Discourse Alliance, which he founded, has abdicated its mission in condemning a recent Sundial essay on the “Cornell Seven.”

Link in comments.

[The Discourse Lab @TheDiscourseLab]

@shoshanaaufzien @Sundial_CU 🙏

[Clayton Smith @_NotYourRealDad]

My friends at @Sundial_CU invited me to write a guest essay about how The Columbia Open Discourse Alliance (CODA) has fallen well short of it's founding principles. (I should know, I founded it!).
https://t.co/Hh3R1WUDUY

[The Discourse Lab @TheDiscourseLab]

The open discourse organization I founded at @Columbia threw two of their classmates under the bus and joined a pile-on against them.

Thanks to @Sundial_CU for inviting me to share my perspective in their top-notch publication!
https://t.co/ZqYwW4yT1Q

[The Discourse Lab @TheDiscourseLab]

@mtracey as promised https://t.co/ZqYwW4ylci

[The Discourse Lab @TheDiscourseLab]

For many people, when they say “believe women” they mean “take everything women say on the subject of SA as gospel truth or we will crush your nuts with a brick”

[Jonas Du @JonasYDu]

Free speech is actually whatever Columbia students decide is free speech

[Christina Ma @Christina_ma4]

I really hope to see more young men stand up for what they believe in.

It’s a mark of true masculinity to remain steadfast in one’s convictions. We must lead by example!

I have the utmost respect for @Nikos_Mohammadi for doing this with me.

[The Discourse Lab @TheDiscourseLab]

🎯

[Christina Ma @Christina_ma4]

The Columbia Open Discourse Alliance (CODA) claims our article on the Cornell 7 case “promotes rape culture and works to silence survivors of sexual assault.”

I shared a deeply personal story about sexual trauma in that piece. I could just as easily argue that their hostile and insensitive statement contributes to an environment where women like me feel unsafe sharing their experiences.

They’re an “ally to all women” until one disagrees with the dominant narrative

[Jonas Du @JonasYDu]

Free speech is actually whatever Columbia students decide is free speech

[The Discourse Lab @TheDiscourseLab]

"A lot of very left-leaning young women date very right-wing guys. I think its that... confidence and that conviction in their beliefs that makes a man masculine and attractive."

#conservative #liberal #dating #masculinity #podcast

[The Discourse Lab @TheDiscourseLab]

@PRmarky I think balance is exactly the right word.

[The Discourse Lab @TheDiscourseLab]

Does our culture encourage young women to interpret unpleasant consensual sexual experiences as something much darker? Does trauma always equal victimhood? What do YOU think?

#regret #women #trauma #victimhood #podcast

[The Discourse Lab @TheDiscourseLab]

This is like seeing a Saturn Ion next to a Porsche 911

[Shoshana Aufzien @shoshanaaufzien]

I’m convinced @cudems never read past the headline. Talk about “operating in bad faith”…

[The Discourse Lab @TheDiscourseLab]

You come on the pod, then you get featured in the @WSJ. It’s called the TDL bump. https://t.co/d39xRpF76U

[Nikos Mohammadi @Nikos_Mohammadi]

.@WSJ reports on our essay on the “Cornell 7,” and the ensuing backlash at Columbia.

https://t.co/lzcM6Ytzok

[Christina Ma @Christina_ma4]

Thank you @WSJ for covering what's happening at Columbia! A disappointing moment for free speech on campus.

It all feels very meta—the outcry we've seen is exactly what we warned about in our article.

https://t.co/ImfN8fQo8b

[The Discourse Lab @TheDiscourseLab]

My take on the backlash to @NikosMohammadi’s recent @Sundial_CU article in @reason