Leonard Susskind Vs Donald Trump

A co-father of string theory as well as lots of other creative ideas inward physics as well as my i time co-author Lenny Susskind (he's been sure to a greater extent than of import for me than the very modest paper indicates) is the electrical flow managing director of physics at Stanford as well as he wrote a "letter on the lunatic" which he agreed to plough into an opened upwards letter. Here it is:

Letter to My Friends, past times Leonard Susskind

I’m watching this thing that’s happening with disbelief, dismay, as well as disgust. There is a lunatic loose—I’m certain nosotros all handle nearly that—but I proceed hearing people rate that they can’t vote for Hillary. I heard it at my daughter’s birthday political party Sunday. Boy oh boy, volition these people last deplorable if the lunatic gets his way. Personally I practise non detect it an excuse that “I alive inward California, which volition larn Democrat whatever I do.”



(C) LM

I strongly believe inward all things Bernie, but Hillary is non the Anti-Bernie. There is much less divergence betwixt Clinton as well as Sanders than the distortions of the nominating procedure powerfulness Pb people to think. She’s for wellness care, he’s for wellness care; he’s for increased minimum wage, she’s for increased minimum wage; she’s for immigrant rights, he’s for immigrant rights; as well as on as well as on it goes.

The lunatic may last but that—a lunatic—but he is besides a master copy of smear as well as innuendo. He is a gigantic liar, as well as he knows that if y'all proceed proverb something over as well as over, it sticks inward people’s minds. It’s called the Big Lie, as well as it works. Say it plenty as well as it sows confusion as well as distrust, non exclusively with the know-nothings, but fifty-fifty with those who know better.

The lunatic as well as his supporters are exceedingly dangerous. Tell your friends: don’t last fooled. The exclusively thing betwixt us as well as the lunatic is Hillary. Get off your donkey as well as vote inward Nov.

Leonard Susskind
Director, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Stanford University

It's oftentimes beingness said that left-wing ideologies are unavoidably totalitarian inward grapheme as well as every leftist is a Stalin to the extent to which he is allowed to deed as one. One's work solid fist – either literally or metaphorically – is the exclusively thing that protects tens of millions of lives from a leftist. It's difficult to disagree when y'all read this Susskind's rant.




For to a greater extent than or less reason, this director's ready on on a leading presidential candidate – and, as explicitly, on nearly 50% of the United States citizens who back upwards him – is considered OK as well as faces no backlash. Susskind claims that "all of them agree" that Trump is a lunatic. Just endeavour to imagine what message this is sending to regular students, postdocs, or faculty at Stanford who naturally back upwards Donald Trump.




The tolerance towards the academy officials' interventions into politics is highly selective. When Larry Summers, as well as thus Harvard's president, real carefully suggested that in that location could last a biological argue contributing to women's underrepresentation inward STEM – something that almost every fry finds obvious – the feminists began to scream that the university's president had no correct to beak nearly such things, non fifty-fifty behind the closed door as well as the terror ignited past times these unpleasant ladies became the master copy argue why Summers was de facto forced to resign from a labor he loved.

Now, when the managing director of physics writes that the politico enjoying the back upwards of to a greater extent than or less 50% of his acre is a "lunatic" as well as that these supporters are "exceedingly dangerous", everything seems to last fine. The political atmosphere at the United States universities is broken beyond repair.

Larry G gives to a greater extent than or less other gedanken experiment:

I am pretty sure, that if to a greater extent than or less scientist had written like missive of the alphabet nearly Obama earlier the final elections, he would accept been fired, or at to the lowest degree witch-hunted as well as ostracized (there were tens of such stories inward final few years, let’s advert a few: Sir Tim Hunt, James Watson, Matt Taylor).

But for bashing Trump, i is beingness endorsed… Trump as well as his supporters couldn’t accept imagined a amend proof for their words nearly double standards existing inward Western world fighting as well as heavy leftist bias of academia as well as media.

I accept visited Stanford five times or so, I don't know exactly. During the showtime interactions, Lenny Susskind would refer to me as "my right-wing friend". Because I had no uncertainty that he was left-wing at that point, it sounded form plenty etc. But when I heard the phrase "my right-wing friend" for the 5th time, it started to audio sick. Why did he experience the urge to discover my politics whenever nosotros appeared at the same place?

At to a greater extent than or less moment, I decided that he had a psychological work with my beingness right-wing, just the same – if non greater – work that the communists inward Czechoslovakia used to accept with the right-wingers. And mayhap the broader environs had a work with that. He was using the phrase inward social club to wound me inward the social community. Can y'all imagine he would refer to a woman someone physicist as a "my vagina-enhanced friend"?

By the way, because the missive of the alphabet was a "letter to Susskind's friends" as well as it says that "all of us handle Trump is a lunatic", it seems that Susskind no longer has whatever right-wing friends. Well, mayhap non fifty-fifty whatever anti-Hillary friends.

You know, I've fought against a left-wing totalitarian government for to a greater extent than or less years as well as I tin lavatory feel such things instantly. This is the same thing. Boy oh boy, all of us handle that Lenny Susskind is clearly a business office of this extremely serious problem. Shame on you, Lenny.

It's funny to imagine Susskind's daughter's birthday political party at which Susskind didn't allow the guests oppose Hillary. They must accept loved him. Lenny, your rant makes it obvious that y'all know adjacent to nil nearly politics as well as are exclusively capable of repeating to a greater extent than or less real inexpensive insults as well as ideological clichés. Why don't y'all exploit the amazing chance to unopen your mouth?

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I must comment on the exclusively judgement inward Susskind's missive of the alphabet that is nearly political issues:

She’s for wellness care, he’s for wellness care; he’s for increased minimum wage, she’s for increased minimum wage; she’s for immigrant rights, he’s for immigrant rights; as well as on as well as on it goes.

Well, they're left-wing on these 3 as well as other issues. It's remarkable that Susskind is willing to promote all these opinions to an official truth. I am confident that the people who accept the left-wing opinions on all these matters are a minority inward the U.S.

And in that location are sure lots of people who are wisely against wellness attention - Susskind's shortcut for a socialist wellness care; against whatever minimum wage or at to the lowest degree against an increased one, a policy that sure reduces the efficiency of whatever economy; against illegal immigration as well as against majority immigration from ideologically troubled parts of the world. Many Americans would prefer immigrants to last right-wing friends rather than Muslims, as well as thus on.

Are these Americans all the same allowed inward the Stanford physics department? Or maybe they accept been forbidden for years as well as I but missed it?