Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone
Episode: The GOP Might be Chaotic, but at Least They Aren't Sterilizing Children
Description: I was part of a movement on the Left that endlessly softened language to avoid offending a single person we deemed marginalized. What we couldn’t say, what we had to say … The list just kept getting longer. The judgments more severe.That Trump is an existential threat not for anything he’s ever done, but what he says is proof enough that this war we’re fighting is a war of words.I’m not allowed to use the word “sterilize,” just like I’m not allowed to use the word “mutilate” to describe what’s happening to...