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How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun)
Crown Forum
June 2015
On Sale: June 9, 2015
304 pages ISBN: 0553447750 EAN: 9780553447750 Kindle: B00NKDMCFK Hardcover / e-Book
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They want to shut you up. But donβt let this be the End of Discussion. In this fresh and provocative new book, Mary Katharine Ham and Guy Benson, dynamic Fox News and Townhall Media duo, expose how the Left exploits fake outrage to silence their political opponentsβin public, on social media, at work, and even in their own homes. Youβve felt it and βEnd of Discussionβ can help you fight it. The political correctness born on college campuses has mutated into a new hypersensitivity. Itβs weaponized in Washington, D.C. by a network of well-trained operatives, media, and politicians, and proliferated throughout the country. The new Puritans of the Left are quick to ban comedians and commencement speakers alike for the sin of disagreeing with them. They demand βsafe spacesβ while making dissent increasingly dangerous for Americans. Ham and Benson demonstrate just how dangerous the outrage industryβa coalition of mostly liberal blowhards and busybodiesβis to America. The media frenzy they create is designed to disqualify opposing viewpoints on everything from health care to education by labeling them racist, sexist, and evil. They punish speech that makes them uncomfortable, demanding boycotts, censures, and peopleβs jobs. They seek to win political and cultural debates by preventing them from happening. And if you think this behavior is relegated to political fights or politicians, think again. The same activists are ready to foment outrage over your association with the βwrongβ fried chicken joints, Internet browsers, breast cancer charities, pasta, childrenβs toys, Halloween costumes, TV shows, schools, and even comediansβ jokes. With Ham and Bensonβs help, readers can cut through the noise and find their voices again, fighting back against the rampant self-censorship and hair-trigger apologies that always make things worse, not better. With fresh reporting and insightful, occasionally tongue-in-cheek analysis, End of Discussion is a timely handbook for anyone who wants to make sure debate doesnβt meet an ugly death during the 2016 election. Despite President Obamaβs frequent declarations to the contrary, the time for debate is not over.
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