Public Enemies: Recognizing and Resisting Emotional Manipulators

Heather Havens
8 min readMay 19, 2021

Sorry, Mr. Baffert. Your horse is not a victim of cancel culture

Photo by Susan Wilkinson on Unsplash

There will be no Triple Crown champion in 2021. On a clear spring Saturday in May, 11–1 shot Rombauer stormed past Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit, to win the Preakness, the second leg in the premiere series of races for American thoroughbreds.

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Heather Havens

I am a thinker, writer, and sometime activist who writes about data privacy, technology, mental health, and entertainment, as well as the occasional novel.