Abigail Shrier: On Freedom in an Age of Fear

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Abigail Shrier, the author of the bestselling book “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” was recently invited to speak at Princeton. But this being a college campus in 2021, you can imagine what happened next. The event was moved off campus. It was limited to 35 people. And the police had to be called in because of threats. But despite the limited audience, Shrier’s message that night was loud and clear: don’t buckle in the face of the mobs. Don’t become a sock puppet to your institution or employer or social circle. Tell the truth. Speak your mind. Reclaim your freedom. It’s a speech that deserves to be heard by as many people–especially young people–as possible. So today, we share it with all of you. https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/abigail-shrier-on-freedom-in-an-age Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Economist provides independent journalism for independent thinking and has been
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0:25.0	podcasts and print.
0:26.6	So for fact sake, search the economist.
0:30.8	I'm Barry Weiss, and this is honestly.
0:35.0	In our upside down and increasingly online world right now,
0:38.0	there are more and more human beings that are seen as either heroes or villains,
0:42.0	depending on which version of reality the Irwasser. that are
0:45.0	watching. Dave Chappelle is either the greatest stand-up comic of all time
0:50.0	or he's literally causing the death of trans people.
0:53.2	Joe Rogan is either the voice of the people
0:56.2	or a conspiracy theorist monster.
0:59.4	And Abigail Schreier has become one of those people.
1:02.4	Her book, Irreversible Damage, The Transgender Craze
1:05.6	seducing Our Daughters, is banned from lots of bookstores and libraries and for a time,
1:11.1	also from Target. One of the ACLU's most prominent lawyers said that,
1:15.0	quote, stopping the circulation of this book
1:18.0	and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on.
1:22.0	Yes, that ACLU. And yet, irreversible damage was also named one of the best books of 2020 by The Economist.
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