Forgiveness and the Politics of Affect

Sally Kohn: In your book, you write about criminal punishment and the ways in which those movements tie in forgiveness. She asks who gets to decide which angers are justified and which are not? Kohn: Anger is read culturally by a white supremacist culture as threatening,. And women often are not allowed to be angry, right? If women express anger, then they're expressing something else; it's policed.