I'm always interested in paradoxes where something you do to remedy a problem then sort of increases it on the other end and social life is full of those right I think there's something attractive to our culture in which we take victimhood seriously. If you create a lot of incentives for people to really define themselves by the one experience that had in their lives that is the worst day of their lives, he says. It may be bad for them psychologically and it might be bad for our ability to thrive together. He thinks Ruth Bader Ginsburg was on to something when she talked about how progress has been shunted aside as a belief system but did we put up with too much crap maybe?
There is a lot of bad advice going around these days. If something bad happened to you, define yourself by your trauma. And if somebody inadvertently did something offensive, react as though they had intended to harm you. Emily Yoffe, a member of Persuasion's Board of Advisors and a contributing writer at The Atlantic, has spent years giving thoughtful advice and chronicling the strange turn in our culture. One of the country's best writers and most fearless reporters, she knows better than just about anyone else how to skewer the growing self-righteousness in our intellectual discourse.
In this week’s episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk and Emily Yoffe sit down to discuss the hallmarks of cancelation, why intent matters, and how we can recover our capacity to converse freely.
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