Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant
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🗓️ 2 March 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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As a public intellectual, activist and professor at Smith College, Loretta Ross is no stranger to confrontation and debate. But years of working to change the minds of others have led her to rethink her own ideas about approaching difficult conversations. Loretta and Adam discuss why shaming rarely changes behavior and her powerful alternative to cancel culture. They also reflect on personal moments of confrontation and explore strategies for talking others out of hate.
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| 1:05.6 | It's Women's History Month in the United States, and we are kicking it off with a recent episode of Rthinking with Adam Grant. |
| 1:10.1 | This episode features reproductive rights |
| 1:12.2 | activist and Smith College professor Loretta Ross, who has spent her career fighting injustices |
| 1:17.6 | and working to change the minds of others. Over time, she began to question whether calling |
| 1:22.6 | people out was the right strategy for lasting change, and instead started to rethink what it meant to approach |
| 1:28.7 | difficult conversations. Loretta and Adam reflect on their own personal moments of confrontation |
| 1:34.2 | and consider what an alternative to cancel culture could look like. To hear more deep conversations, |
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| 1:45.1 | audio collective at audio collective dot ted.com it takes too much energy to hate people you know i've always found |
| 1:59.9 | that exhausting. |
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