Remember This Article? It Was Conservative Propaganda, and a Lot of Us Fell for It.

Emily Pothast
3 min readDec 1, 2016

Last fall, an anti-PC think piece by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff called The Coddling of the American Mind started making its rounds on social media. I honestly can’t tell you how many times this fabulously coiffed baby showed up in my feed because some guy whom I otherwise respected shared it, sometimes even asking me directly, “What do you…

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Emily Pothast

Artist and historian. PhD student researching religion, material culture, media, and politics. emilypothast.com