7/10/2020
The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk
We want to be seen as taking the moral high ground not just to make apoint, or move adebate forward, but to look acertain way — incensed, or compassionate, or committed to acause. Another word for this type of discourse is grandstanding. Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke join the show to talk about how grandstanding affects our day to day political discourse.As politics gets more and more polarized, people on both sides of the spectrum move further and further apart when they let grandstanding get in the way of engaging one another.
