The Cost of Staying Silent in the Face of Bullying Mobs: Katherine Brodsky

“If you can’t stand up for a human being that you respect, and love, and appreciate, and if you can’t stand up for a principle that you believe in, if you can’t stand up when somebody’s doing something that isn’t right—then who are you?” Katherine Brodsky was at the peak of her journalistic career, writing about technology, film, and culture for publications such as Variety and The Washington Post, when she fell victim to the cancel culture mob. “People were sending me threats. They were trying to reach out to my employers, or past employers, to make sure I was unhireable … People were attempting to dox me. So it just really spiraled beyond anything I’ve ever experienced,” says Ms. Brodsky. In this episode, we dive into her new book, “No Apologies: How to Find and Free Your Voice in the Age of Outrage,” and discuss her views, as a Canadian, on the recent federal court ruling against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “I’ve been a liberal voter. So, I’m the Trudeau target demographic, although I wasn’t a huge fan. And I’ve even voted left of that, at a certain point. But the idea that you can just ignore a huge segment of your population and just paint them as evil and racist, and labels that didn’t even make sense that he gave them, it was very terrifying to see. And I went from not maybe liking him very much—because he was very virtue-signally, and I don’t think he was particularly smart—to really actively being afraid that he had this authoritarian streak,” says Ms. Brodsky. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.