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Sandy and Nora talk politics

The truth about uncivil discourse

Ep. 295

In this episode, Sandy and Nora dissect what is behind the push to restore civility to discourse and what incivility should teach us. Plus they talk about more media failures related to tragedies that have happened to Black people.

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