The Cost of Off Limit Words

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"I don't want to live in a world where I can't yell to my daughter's face. The terrorists have won," she writes. "It seems equally legitimate if not for individuals from marginalized groups to demand that people incapable of being disadvantaged or hurt by those terms get the fuck over themselves and be a little more sensitive." She says, an able-bodied, able-minded, white heteromail can tell us 'we just need to collectively get the f**king over ourselves' But it's a hard build as well; we may be severely underestimating the cost to the hearer.

Paul Bloom joins us in the second segment for a lively discussion about the value of empathy as a guide our moral decisions. And in our first scoop, we talk about Paul's new book (coming in November) Just Babies: The Origin of Good and Evil , racist babies, and how 80s sitcoms changed the world. In the first segment, Dave and Tamler face the music and try to respond to a listener's criticisms of their episode on slurs and offensiveness (Episode 22) .

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