How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong

by James O'Brien

The more fractured and divided a society becomes, the more fertile the ground is for terrorists to plant their views and ideologies.

it would be wrong to hold the consumers of such ignorant bile to a higher moral standard than those paid large sums of money to provide it.

The idea that ‘freedom of speech’ somehow equates with a freedom to spout undiluted, often inflammatory nonsense without being contradicted or called out is currently more popular on both sides of the Atlantic than at any other point in living memory.

there is money to be made by poisoning the well of public discourse, turning neighbours, family members and colleagues against each other and flogging the idea that just to be different is somehow to be wrong.

you won’t reduce harassment and abuse until you wipe out institutional objectification,