Sally Kohn: The thing that I started noticing a few years ago is people suddenly just speaking at a much lower volume about certain topics right you go to certain topics and you just notice that they sort of lean in a little bit closer. That to me is a sign of an unhealthy culture. We've internalized this language policing, now sort of the attitudes of campus are now in HR. She says along with the rise of social media that you can now disputes are not personal necessarily you can take a dispute about anyone online and it doesn't necessarily blow up but we've all seen things where it's completely unknown people caught in a moment and their lives are ruined.
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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