The Perils of Safety

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On the left, we are ing the politics of cancel, culture of silencing unfold in real time. And that presents true dangers for us. So as i was working on this story, it became clear there are certain recurring patterns to this so and i wanted to hilike them. One of the qualities is what i call the perils of safety. Safetyism is a concept first written about by jonathan hight and gregg lukiano in their tremendous book, the coddling of the american mind. It's spreading from college campuses to high schools. This is very dangerous because it makes us less able to grapple with ideas or even treat people with a certain amount

Irshad Manji has a lot of experience in trying to persuade those who really don’t want to be persuaded.

Early in her career, Irshad wrote two influential books that advocated for a reformed Islam. In conversations with religious conservatives around the world, she found that a combative style did not help her win adherents for her cause; instead, she started to acknowledge their views—before proudly arguing for her own. Now, Irshad runs the Moral Courage project, a pedagogical approach that hopes to make progress on contested issues like racism without shaming its participants.

On the latest episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Irshad about why we should not judge those who disagree with us; how we can hope to persuade them of our own positions; and why we should be more optimistic about America’s future than is now fashionable.

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