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Lol, how many books can read someone at the same time?

Bloody brilliant, I love this guy

Amazing so far.

O'Brien's careful deconstruction of arguments is often masterful and sometimes a little arrogant but that doesn't detract from the effectiveness of making interlocutors explain the meaning of their assertions.

7/8 chapters. It has thus far completely shifted my view, more so my rationale on so many fundamental issues of the day. Looking forward to the last chapter on Trump lol

People hardly ever asked to explain opinions nowadays... true.

Respecting free speech not the same as not scrutinising free speech.

People hardly ever asked to explain opinions nowadays... true.

“We need a complete reversal of the idea that every argument has two equal sides, that every question is debatable and that every story needs to be ‘balanced’.”- pg. 217

In the middle of a chapter on the man currently occupying the White House. “I’m a strong believer in hating the liars not the lied to, but the line is often blurred.”- pg. 196

Just on Chapter 4: Political Correctness.
“Despite the title of this book, it is refreshing, in an age of increasingly reductionist and binary debate, to recognize the importance of sometimes saying the three most undervalued words in the English language: I don’t know.”

Really funny quote on pg. 11- “James: Have you ever asked the shopkeeper how he feels about you wanting to deport all his customers?”

This book has highlighted why I ought to not use “politically correct” as a term. Why? Because trying not to offend people should not be criticised.

I have a bit of an issue with the title “How to be Right” when applied to value judgments such as Brexit. This book does assert leftist views as fact (although only in some chapters obviously not LGBT etc) and I feel that it’s more ardent supporters enjoy this book because it reaffirms, not challenges their views, which undermines its purpose.

94 pages in and no female callers yet in the transcripts.

The intro just ended. That's not an intro. It's a full blown chapter

Still very enjoyable

Enjoyable opening chapter

I’m loving it!!!

Only a couple of chapters in but so far this book has made for really interesting reading. It’s true that people often have very strong opinions, but when questioned on them they are unable to back it up with any real life experience or facts as to why they feel that way. The internet and media has a lot to answer for.

O'Brien is a bit smug about how well he dismantles the daft, ill-conceived and thoughtless (genuinely thoughtless) arguments of the people who confidently call his radio phone-in to make their point to a wide audience.
But then he is good at it.
However, I would rather judge how good he is for myself, instead of him keep telling me.

O'Brien is a bit smug about how well he dismantles the daft, ill-conceived and thoughtless (genuinely thoughtless) arguments of the people who confidently call his radio phone-in to make their point to a wide audience.
But then he is good at it.
However, I would rather judge how good he is for myself, instead of him keep telling me.

So much to be learned from this book!

So good

So good

Muslim listeners generally respond to calls like this by pointing out that they’re too busy doing the school run to be waging war against the kuffir. Or that they were going to do a bit of jihad, but something good dropped on Netflix.

Excellent book!

This book is genius, hugely relevant and highly entertaining! I’m completely in love with O’Brien’s wit and compassion 👌

This is amazing. To quote Danny Wallace: “Funny, wise and passionate. Like Yoda with better grammar.”

Una lectura muy ligera y actual. Desde luego un título de no ficción muy interesante narrado con todo el sentido del humor que la seriedad del tema permite.

I’m really enjoying listening to this at the moment. Some of the conversations from the call in shows sound almost like you’re listening in to someone’s therapy session, trying to figure out why each person is so angry with an issue and giving them the evidence to try and help them understand why this doesn’t have to be the case and that their energy might be better placed elsewhere