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News Brief: The Casual Soft Eugenics of Self-Help "Friendscaping" Content
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Jun 16, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
In this public News Brief, we discuss a recent advice column in the New York Times advocating upwardly mobile professionals dump their fat and depressed friends and how it's part of a much broader trend of pop sociology repackaging cruelty and soft eugenics as "science-driven" self improvement.
Released:
Jun 16, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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