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American Thought Leaders

The Cost of Staying Silent in the Face of Bullying Mobs: Katherine Brodsky

American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

News, Government, Politics

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

“If you can’t stand up for a human being that you respect, and love, and appreciate, and if you can’t stand up for a principle that you believe in, if you can’t stand up when somebody’s doing something that isn’t right—then who are you?”

Katherine Brodsky was at the peak of her journalistic career, writing about technology, film, and culture for publications such as Variety and The Washington Post, when she fell victim to the cancel culture mob.

“People were sending me threats. They were trying to reach out to my employers, or past employers, to make sure I was unhireable … People were attempting to dox me. So it just really spiraled beyond anything I’ve ever experienced,” says Ms. Brodsky.

In this episode, we dive into her new book, “No Apologies: How to Find and Free Your Voice in the Age of Outrage,” and discuss her views, as a Canadian, on the recent federal court ruling against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“I’ve been a liberal voter. So, I’m the Trudeau target demographic, although I wasn’t a huge fan. And I’ve even voted left of that, at a certain point. But the idea that you can just ignore a huge segment of your population and just paint them as evil and racist, and labels that didn’t even make sense that he gave them, it was very terrifying to see. And I went from not maybe liking him very much—because he was very virtue-signally, and I don’t think he was particularly smart—to really actively being afraid that he had this authoritarian streak,” says Ms. Brodsky.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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0:00.0

If you can't stand up for a principle that you believe it, if you can't stand up when somebody's doing something that isn't right, if you can't stand up for a human being that you respect and love and appreciate.

0:13.0

Who are you?

0:14.2

Catherine Brodsky was at the peak of her journalistic career,

0:17.6

writing about tech, film and culture

0:19.7

for publications such as Variety and the Washington Post when she fell victim to the cancel culture mob

0:26.0

People were sending me threats they were trying to reach out to my employers or past employers to make sure I was unhireable. People were attempting to

0:35.9

docks me so it's just really spiral beyond anything I've ever experienced. In this episode we dive into her new book, No Apologies, how to find and free

0:46.7

your voice in the age of outrage.

0:49.8

This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yani Kelleck. Catherine Brodsky, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.

0:59.0

Thanks for having me.

1:01.0

Does it mean that I'm a Thought leader now that I'm on the show?

1:05.0

I think so.

1:07.0

And you know in your book it's actually very interesting because I think of your book a bit like a kind of written version of American

1:15.9

thought leaders and some of them indeed actually have been on the show. A number of them have

1:19.7

been on the show, but it's a, the format even is is is a little bit similar so I feel a kinship there

1:26.8

oh excellent I'm glad I could inspire you just kidding I think you've done it

1:31.9

earlier than I have.

1:33.2

So you predate me.

1:35.2

Absolutely.

1:36.2

And the central theme of your book, okay?

1:39.3

And there's multiple incredibly important themes,

1:42.8

but one of the things that really jumped out to me,

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