Are We Overstating Abuse?
With Friends Like These
English - November 13, 2020 08:01 - 41 minutes - 57 MB - ★★★★★ - 6.3K ratingsSociety & Culture News Politics politics entrepreneurship health interview news business culture comedy leadership entrepreneur Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Author Sarah Schulman joins the show to discuss her provocative and influential book, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair. She argues that both the right and left can needless escalate mere conflicts into accusations of abuse, creating victims where there are none and blaming and shaming those who might be simply misunderstood.