The Seven Habits of Highly Depolarizing People
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The Seven Habits of Highly Depolarizing People
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#2he forgot one: they don't watch cable news.
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#3Well needed article. Trying to follow this more and more. Although it's getting harder.
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#4So, soon it's time to elect another scapegoat, a social lightning rod.
U.S. presidents seem to get blamed (and sometimes praised) for things they can't really control.
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#5So, soon it's time to elect another scapegoat, a social lightning rod. U.S. presidents seem to get blamed (and sometimes praised) for things they can't really control.
Well they do keep making promises around those things like they do.
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#6well, first off it says that people distrust people of opposite political parties more than of different races like that's a bad thing ( distrusting people because of their beliefs instead of their race seems an improvement to me), furthermore has this data been adjusted for political affiliation and race - do white Republicans, for example, really distrust white Democrats more than they distrust people of other races? Did this study take other parties than the big two into account?
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#7well, first off it says that people distrust people of opposite political parties more than of different races like that's a bad thing ( distrusting people because of their beliefs instead of their race seems an improvement to me), furthermore has this data been adjusted for political affiliation and race - do white Republicans, for example, really distrust white Democrats more than they distrust people of other race…
it says that people distrust people of opposite political parties more than of different races
Yes.
like that's a bad thing
No. It did not say this.
distrusting people because of their beliefs instead of their race seems an improvement to me
Equating political party = belief is a big problem. It's basically the definition of tribalism.
You're forced to pick a side.
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#8he forgot one: they don't watch cable news.
Good recommendation, but probably needs to be updated to "don't read Twitter".
140 characters don't lend themselves to sustained and depolarising argument -- quite the opposite.
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#9I closed this almost immediately because of the giant yellow "this is your free article for this month" banner on the top. Get your shit together web designers, I don't need something blaring so everyone in the office sees that it's my free article.
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#10So, soon it's time to elect another scapegoat, a social lightning rod. U.S. presidents seem to get blamed (and sometimes praised) for things they can't really control.
Absolutely. My favorite example is the price of gasoline. This often comes up with the seasonal price shifts (Americans drive much more in the summer than in other seasons, so gas is more expensive then). We might as well blame them for the weather.