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We Need Snowflakes - In defence of the sensitive, the angry and the offended. As featured on R4 Woman's Hour (Hardcover)
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We Need Snowflakes - In defence of the sensitive, the angry and the offended. As featured on R4 Woman's Hour (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R440
Discovery Miles 4 400
You Save R97 (18%)
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'Entertaining... Sane about much of the madness that grips us
today' TLS 'An incisive look at the reality of "woke" culture, and
who gains from demonising a generation.' GUARDIAN
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Is 'cancel culture' spiralling out of hand? Are the youth of today
oversensitive, mollycoddled and intellectually weak? Does the
scourge of political correctness threaten the very fabric of our
society? Indignant politicians, columnists and baby boomers
certainly think so. The problem, we're told repeatedly, is that the
current generation is full of hypersensitive cowards; 'snowflakes'
who are obsessed with making mountains out of molehills. A safe
space here, an unruly protest there, it's all proof that they don't
know how to handle the real world. But what if you were to drown
out that noise and talk to the snowflakes themselves? What are they
actually asking for? How are they going about it? And who's really
benefitting from all the anger being directed towards them? In this
timely and subversive book, journalist and author Hannah Jewell
investigates the stories behind the headlines and finds that,
shockingly, most of them have been blown out of proportion. 'Cancel
culture' isn't really a culture at all, many of the people who
claim to have been silenced are doing quite well now, thank you
very much, and maybe it's ok to think swastikas daubed in faeces in
a campus bathroom is something that should be adequately
investigated. The truth is that snowflakes understand plenty about
the 'real world', which is why they want to see it change. And that
is what their detractors are actually scared of.
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