Mary Katharine Ham. (2015). End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun). The Crown Publishing Group.

Mary Katharine Ham. 2015. End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun). The Crown Publishing Group.

Mary Katharine Ham, End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun). The Crown Publishing Group, 2015.

Mary Katharine Ham. End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun). The Crown Publishing Group, 2015.

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   • bioText: Fox News contributors and writers MARY KATHARINE HAM and GUY BENSON rank among the most recognizable and influential young conservatives in American media today. Ham serves as contributing editor to HotAir.com; Benson is political editor at Townhall.com. Close friends for nearly a decade, the pair has collaborated on numerous projects—coauthoring political analyses, cohosting radio shows, and speaking jointly to live audiences across the country.
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They want to shut you up. But don’t let this be the End of Discussion.
In this fresh and provocative new book, Mary Katharine Ham and Guy Benson, dynamic Fox News and Townhall Media duo, expose how the Left exploits fake outrage to silence their political opponents—in public, on social media, at work, and even in their own homes. You’ve felt it and “End of Discussion” can help you fight it.
The political correctness born on college campuses has mutated into a new hypersensitivity. It’s weaponized in Washington, D.C. by a network of well-trained operatives, media, and politicians, and proliferated throughout the country. The new Puritans of the Left are quick to ban comedians and commencement speakers alike for the sin of disagreeing with them. They demand “safe spaces” while making dissent increasingly dangerous for Americans.
Ham and Benson demonstrate just how dangerous the outrage industry—a coalition of mostly liberal blowhards and busybodies—is to America. The media frenzy they create is designed to disqualify opposing viewpoints on everything from health care to education by labeling them racist, sexist, and evil. They punish speech that makes them uncomfortable, demanding boycotts, censures, and people’s jobs. They seek to win political and cultural debates by preventing them from happening. 
And if you think this behavior is relegated to political fights or politicians, think again. The same activists are ready to foment outrage over your association with the “wrong” fried chicken joints, Internet browsers, breast cancer charities, pasta, children’s toys, Halloween costumes, TV shows, schools, and even comedians’ jokes. 
With Ham and Benson’s help, readers can cut through the noise and find their voices again, fighting back against the rampant self-censorship and hair-trigger apologies that always make things worse, not better. With fresh reporting and insightful, occasionally tongue-in-cheek analysis, End of Discussion is a timely handbook for anyone who wants to make sure debate doesn’t meet an ugly death.

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   • source: Dana Perino, former White House press secretary and cohost of The Five on Fox News
   • content: "End of Discussion will actually start more conversations than it finishes. Mary Katharine and Guy are two of the bright stars of conservative commentary, and their insight and humor comes together well to showcase the absurdities of manu­factured outrage and the benefits of taking a breath before launching an attack. End of Discussion is a smart and charming political page turner that was a delight to read."
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   • content: "Come for the writing and the humor, stay for the point: The 'outrage industry' is destroying poli­tics. Benson and Ham have diagnosed a new kind of media cancer, one that is metastasizing and eat­ing away at our ability to survive as a free people, freely debating our future. Yes, that sounds seri­ous for a book with as wonderfully light a touch as this, and one so full of laugh-out-loud mo­ments. But it is true. That's why you need to read this book."
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     July 1, 2015
     

     The age of outrage is crippling free speech, argue political writers and Fox News contributors Ham and Benson in their first book. By determining what is too offensive or uncomfortable to discuss, the Left preemptively ends civil debate. Ham and Benson begin with an overview of this attack mode, dissecting how mechanized and kneejerk the Left's response to often-manufactured scandals has become in an effort to win ground. Subsequent chapters delve into separate, generally social, issues to demonstrate the pair's central thesis in action. A core theme is that the Outrage Machine's casualties are carrying over into private life, muzzling citizens who are fearful of disproportionate personal and professional repercussions. The authors argue that the trend of "outrage equals moral authority," which has intensified with the prevalence of social media, not only harms freedom of speech, but freedom in general. VERDICT Both Ham and Benson are self-termed bloggers, and their contemporary prose and presentation makes this volume palatable particularly for younger readers who are used to a more irrelevant style. It is genuinely enjoyable to read while still thoughtfully handling each topic--the lighthearted approach never sacrifices in-depth research or satirizes serious issues.--Laurel Tacoma, Strayer Univ. Lib., Washington, DC

     Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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They want to shut you up. But don’t let this be the End of Discussion.
In this fresh and provocative new book, Mary Katharine Ham and Guy Benson, dynamic Fox News and Townhall Media duo, expose how the Left exploits fake outrage to silence their political opponents—in public, on social media, at work, and even in their own homes. You’ve felt it and “End of Discussion” can help you fight it.
The political correctness born on college campuses has mutated into a new hypersensitivity. It’s weaponized in Washington, D.C. by a network of well-trained operatives, media, and politicians, and proliferated throughout the country. The new Puritans of the Left are quick to ban comedians and commencement speakers alike for the sin of disagreeing with them. They demand “safe spaces” while making dissent increasingly dangerous for Americans.
Ham and Benson demonstrate just how dangerous the outrage...

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