I misunderstood the aim of this book and thought that it would provide ideas to facilitate discussions between people with different perspectives in the hope of bringing people together in a deeper understanding. Even though she was an adult, Jill’s parents and the show continued to expect more of the young couple. This creates cultural and political tribes, makes people nervous about engaging at all, or leads to the issues to be trivialised or attributed to the excessive sensitivity of 'snowflakes' to 'identity politics'. Shahvisi revels in provocation and yet worries about being cancelled herself, given her strong opinions.

Full disclosure: I note the author teaches philosophy at my old workplace, so affinity bias can’t be totally excluded.

Arianne Shahvisi's book cuts through the noise with an eminently sensible discussion of key contemporary 'culture war' issues. We live in an age of information overload, and unfortunately, 'information' is often misinformation. Drawing on Shahvisi’s work as a philosopher, and using live controversies, well-known case studies, and personal anecdotes, this audiobook reveals and analyses the power relations that shape our social world, and offers powerful ways to challenge them. Well written and thoughtful, I highly recommend this book especially if you're a person who has been looking for a way to ease into a rather heavy subject.

We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country. Many people give kneejerk answers that roughly align with their broader belief system, but flounder when asked for their reasoning, leading to a conversational stalemate-especially when faced with a political, generational, or cultural divide.It was also a chance to become wealthy, but Jill, who was dedicated to following the rules, didn’t question where the money went. Arguably, to constructively engage in an argument, one must assume that the people we are arguing with possess some level of reasonableness.

Desmond, who grew up in modest circumstances and suffered poverty in young adulthood, points to the deleterious effects of being poor—among countless others, the precarity of health care and housing (with no meaningful controls on rent), lack of transportation, the constant threat of losing one’s job due to illness, and the need to care for dependent children. It provides clear philosophical arguments and reasoning to enable me articulate how systemic racism is dividing our society. Shahvisi attempts not "to be ‘objective’ or ‘apolitical,’ if such a thing were even possible," but to "make my reasoning clear enough that those who disagree with me will at least see where we part ways. A Audible é um serviço de entretenimento em áudio que oferece aos assinantes acesso ilimitado a mais de 100 mil audiolivros, além da possibilidade de adquirir um catálogo adicional de mais de 300 mil títulos de audiolivros com desconto.Shahvisi makes a strong case for cultural change as regards male behaviour, for binning psychopathic blowhard leaders who celebrate and encourage violence.

Fortune 500 CEOs won’t like Desmond’s message for rewriting the social contract—which is precisely the point. When they attempted to say no to filming some aspects of their lives, Jill discovered that a sheet of paper her father asked her to sign the day before her wedding was part of a contract in which she had unwittingly agreed to full cooperation.The circular logic fallacy of the argument is the key to plausible deniability inserted in every chapter of the book. You Can't Say Anything Anymore cuts right to the heart of these tensions, with the aim of demonstrating the importance of rigorous definitions and distinctions, revealing the arguments that break the stalemates, and equipping readers with the tools to identify and defend their positions. It does not help, Desmond adds, that so few working people are represented by unions or that Black Americans, even those who have followed the “three rules” (graduate from high school, get a full-time job, wait until marriage to have children), are far likelier to be poor than their White compatriots.