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Things Fell Apart

S2. Ep 6: A Hierarchy of Trauma

Things Fell Apart

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

How a bestselling book about trauma - lockdown’s number one bestseller - helped the culture war over free speech burst out of colleges and into the workplace. A shift some people pejoratively call the Great Awokening.

Written and presented by Jon Ronson Produced by Sarah Shebbeare Original music by Phil Channell

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0:36.0

From BBC Radio 4, this is Things Fell Apart, season 2. to.

0:47.0

Yeah, law students shouting profanities and threats disrupt a free speech event with a bipartisan panel on civil liberties.

0:55.6

For decades a culture war has raged on college campuses about whether or not to

1:03.8

deplatform contentious voices.

1:06.4

The students that protested hurled insults at us,

1:09.8

shouted us down, they were pounding on classroom walls. It was a terrifying night. Campus

1:14.8

police issuing a shelter in place order after college Republicans invited

1:19.3

Milo Annapolis to speak. This is a police generator that was knocked over and set on fire

1:24.5

when these protests turned into a riot. We will not tolerate racism or

1:29.0

sexism or hate crimes and violence. He's a fascist and Berkeley did not welcome him.

1:35.4

But lately, something big and surprising has changed about this particular culture war.

1:51.0

For the longest time protests over free speech were pretty much confined to college

1:54.4

and until suddenly they exploded out of colleges and into workplaces

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