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Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox, and welcome to With Friends Like These.

When I first heard about Sarah Schulman's book, Conflict is Not Abuse,

Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the duty of repair, the idea clicked.

I thought of how white people call the police at the drop of a hat.

I thought about how calling someone a racist is not, in fact, worse than being a racist.

And once I actually started reading it, well, she talks about that stuff.

And it's really bracing.

And then she turns her gimlii onto the ways that well-meaning liberals, people like you and me,

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