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A letter to Michelle Obama … about lows and highs – Sydney Morning Herald
We know what “going high” looks like. It is this week’s virtual delegate roll call sealing Biden’s presidential nomination.
In October your husband criticised woke call-out culture among young people on social media. Being as judgmental as possible is not the path to progress, he warned. Since then, call-out culture has arguably graduated to the more vindictive cancel culture. The 153 signatories to the Harpers letter defending free speech are mostly professional combatants in the contest of ideas. Some (not me) argue these writers and intellectuals always knew the battle came with risk.
Not so the ordinary workers …
