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297. Andrew Doyle — How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

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The Importance of Language in the Culture War

Sally Kohn: One of the pushbacks I get from talking to people like you and my own writings on this subject is you're creating this moral panic over a very minor thing. And therefore the importance of language that you talk about in your book as controlling people's thoughts. Is it possible that you know, we're doing something like that? Or how would you respond to kind of a common criticism like that?Kohn: I would say it's not just a criticism, it's a tactic. What we are doing is we are commenting on a moral panic. This is going on where people are saying there are all these fascists out there. They want to tear down all traditions

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