I think I was primed without at that time knowing the term for my core aggressions in all kinds of ways growing up because everything around being Jewish in Germany was so sensitive and complicated. There's a weird displacement that happens which is that you know as certain things become taboo to be sad people want to express those ideas or opinions slightly different ways but then what they now say starts to be read as a kind of code for the original statement. That just seems like a very unhealthy dynamic and it's so amplified by social media how do we get out of it especially vis-a-vis social media? We're into having social media be so central to our lives we don't really have rules we
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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