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Everyone Watched the Same Event and Saw Something Different – Alison Sher
David Beckemeyer
activism, BLM, bridge building, critical thinking, culture war, echo chambers, ideology, journalism standards, media bias, media literacy, misinformation, moral psychology, outrage culture, political identity, political polarization, selective storytelling, social contagion, Special Focus / Current Events, tribalism, two-party systemAuthor and researcher Allison Sher spent years studying how outrage moves through media systems — and what it does to the people inside them. Her conclusion: the division we experience isn’t just a political problem. It’s a contagion, and most of us don’t realize we’ve been exposed. In this conversation, David and Allison explore the…
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Outrage 80 – The Quiet Choices That Shape History – Luke Berryman
David Beckemeyer
anti democratic movements, Authoritarianism, bystander behavior, civic norms, civic responsibility, democracy, extremism, far right movements, historical memory, history and politics, holocaust education, ideology, moral courage, nazism, polarization, political psychology, political violence, resistance, small acts of resistance, social compliance, Special Focus / Current EventsAired Jan 21, 2026 Resistance is often imagined as dramatic, heroic, and rare. But history tells a more complicated—and more unsettling—story. In this episode of Outrage Overload, we’re joined by historian and educator Dr. Luke Berryman, author of Resisting Nazism: True stories of resistance to the world’s most dangerous ideology from 1920 to the present.…
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Outrage Overload is a podcast about the outrage industry, my journey to discover what it is, how it affects us, and what we can do about it.


