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Podcast: Life Examined
Episode: Say the right thing: DEI and the pathway to positive and constructive dialogue
Description: Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law and the director of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, provides practical tips and suggestions for a new way of having conversations about our differences that will help us get beyond cancel culture. In his latest book, “Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice,” which Yoshino co-authored with David Glasgow, he argues that cancel culture has meant that important conversations about identity are being avoided as people are scared that what they say mi...