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EPISODE · Jun 16, 2021 · 45 MIN

News Brief: The Casual Soft Eugenics of Self-Help "Friendscaping" Content

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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.

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