How Political Myths Derail Progress
think.kera.org June 7, 2021 15When complex social justice ideas get reduced to a single word or phrase, they become easy to weaponize. Nesrine Malik is a columnist and features writer for the Guardian, and she joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how “wokeness,” “political correctness,” “free speech,” “cancel culture” and other shorthand terms are used to both drive and tamp down social justice movements. Her book is “We Need New Stories: The Myths that Subvert Freedom.”