Sometimes, the most dangerous and powerful thing a person can do is to stand up not against their enemies, but against their friends. As the United States heads into what will likely be another bitter and divided election year, there will be more and more pressure to stand with our in-groups rather than our consciences.
So a group of us here at Throughline decided to tell some of the stories of people who have stood up to that kind of pressure. Some are names we know; others we likely never will. On today's episode: what those people did, what it cost them, and why they did it anyway.
EPISODE CITATIONS:
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Defying Hitler: the White Rose Pamphlet (https://zpr.io/wAXJuTzqFBvw), by Alexandra Lloyd, fellow by special election in German at the University of Oxford.
King: A Life (https://zpr.io/iGAEggJJnFNE), by Johnathan Eig.
The 11th: A Letter From George
Darkode
Worst. Year. Ever.
Flop Off
Vanishing Words
Return of Alpha Gal
Animal Minds
Mixtape: Help?
Mixtape: Cassetternet
Mixtape: The Wandering Soul
Mixtape: Jack and Bing
Mixtape: Dakou
Of Bombs and Butterflies
Oliver Sipple
HEAVY METAL
In the Running
60 Words, 20 Years
The Unsilencing
Everybody’s Got One
Gonads: Dutee
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