With Friends Like These

Are We Overstating Abuse?

11.13.2020 - By Crooked MediaPlay

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CW: Sexual violence

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.

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