Charting Moral Code in Modern Day

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 22, 2015

Conor Friedersdorf, who wrote "The Rise of Victimhood Culture" for The Atlantic will be joined by Alyson Cole, a professor at Queens College, CUNY, author of The Cult of Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror, to debate the rise of microaggression. Friedersdorf and Cole will look at concerns about a growing "culture" of victims of discrimination in which nearly everyone is claiming to be a victim. 

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