When We Disagree
What's a disagreement you can’t get out of your head? When We Disagree highlights the arguments that stuck with us, one story at a time.
When We Disagree
Anatomy of a Digital Boycott: When the Crowd Demands Retribution
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Katherine Brodsky, host of the Forbidden Conversations podcast and author of No Apologies: How to Find and Free Your Voice in an Age of Outrage, was the target of a cancellation attempt. While managing an online professional network for women journalists, an Fox News job posting on the forum triggered a cascade of intense community outrage. Brodsky explores the severe consequences she faced when she tried to steer the forum away from partisan politics and personal attacks, including online cancellation campaigns, bad-faith labels, and attempts to weaponize her past employers against her. This conversation pulls back the curtain on the hyper-reactive nature of digital spaces and the intense social pressure to conform, tracing how a self-described "people pleaser" found her own voice by navigating an online thunderdome.
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