How To Be Right
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3.9 • 7 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Random House presents the audiobook edition of How to Be Right, written and read by James O'Brien.
Forget agreeing to disagree – it’s time to learn How To Be Right.
Every day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming benefits scroungers, the EU, Muslims, feminists and immigrants. But what makes James’s daily LBC show such essential listening – and has made James a standout social media star – is the careful way he punctures their assumptions and dismantles their arguments live on air, every single morning.
In How To Be Right, James provides a hilarious and invigorating guide to talking to people with faulty opinions. With chapters on every lightning-rod issue, James shows how people have been fooled into thinking the way they do, and in each case outlines the key questions to ask to reveal fallacies, inconsistencies and double standards.
If you ever get cornered by ardent Brexiteers, Daily Mail disciples or little England patriots, this book is your conversation survival guide.
‘I have had a ringside seat as a significant swathe of the British population was persuaded that their failures were the fault of foreigners, that unisex lavatories threatened their peace of mind and that ‘all Muslims’ must somehow apologise for terror attacks by extremists. I have tried to dissuade them and sometimes succeeded… The challenge is to distinguish sharply between the people who told lies and the people whose only offence was to believe them.’
– James O’Brien
Customer Reviews
Manipulative. Poor argumentation.
1. There’s no space for racism, bigotry, sexism etc in this world. I agree with the host on this. However:
2. The host/author boringly manipulates the calls and leads on to present them as idiots - the fact that this is a narration of a book the mere tone in which the counter arguments are narrated is skewed. The author himself admits to being too aggressive or not allowing his callers the time to expand on their (even if morally incorrect) views but nevertheless.
3. The callers are pretty simple people lacking any argumentative skills. It gets boring. I could think of tens of counter arguments for the sake of challenging the host and produce more concrete facts. This is however all shallow and after some time just plainly gets boring. Sorry.