Offline: Elizabeth Bruenig on Forgiving Trolls and Strangers

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🗓️ 19 December 2021

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Offline is here to stay and the show has moved to its own feed. To listen to Jon's interview with Elizabeth Bruenig, and the many great episodes to come, search Offline with Jon Favreau and click subscribe. See you there! The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig joins Jon this week on Offline to discuss something the internet was never built for: forgiveness. Exploring faith, political polarization, and cancel culture, Jon and Liz investigate how finding the capacity to forgive the online transgressions of our enemies, strangers, or just our trolls has never been more important. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.

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0:00.0	I started thinking, okay, the person who's saying something nasty or being nasty, maybe they're just,
0:05.9	you know, they just popped off a bad tweet. So why am I going to respond to that?
0:10.3	Right. And then keep this whole cycle going. Right. You know, and oftentimes I'll tell myself,
0:15.7	like, maybe they probably have a point. I probably am annoying. I tried to do that too.
0:21.2	Maybe I was an asshole. Lena Dunham had a great quote where she said, I guess I'm not for everyone.
0:26.4	Yeah. But I now think about that myself when people have valid dunks. I'm like, yeah, well,
0:36.1	I guess I'm not for everyone. I'm John Favreau. Welcome to offline.
0:43.7	Hey, everyone. Exciting news. Offline is here to stay. And the show has now moved to its own feed.
0:50.4	If you'd like to listen to my full interview with Liz Brunig, you can find it on that new feed.
0:54.9	Just search offline with John Favreau. Once you're over there, remember to subscribe to keep up
0:59.6	to date with all of our upcoming episodes. We've got some exciting conversations ready to go over
1:04.2	the next few months. I'll see you there.

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