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It's hard to say how we get past the polarization that is dividing everyone. Past the partisan politics. It's hard to arrive at a constructive conversation for
by wernercd 10y ago
It's hard to say how we get past the polarization that is dividing everyone. Past the partisan politics.
It's hard to arrive at a constructive conversation for complex topics within the span of a text message - or a few paragraphs.
Both sides are pulled further left/right and people spend more time in echo chambers where they unfriend/get unfriended by those with different opinions.
I'm not sure how you get past these hurdles in a "text messaging"/facebook type environment.
"Trump takes advantage" of the divide caused by the "current administration". I try not to be vitriolic but its hard not to be angry at those in power for letting it get this bad. And by "those in power", I do include BOTH sides.
- grzm 10y agoI completely agree. I'm amazed at how infuriated I can find myself sometimes. One advantage of the text messaging/Facebook-type environment is that it's async. We have the opportunity to step back, take a breath, re-read what we wrote before we press send. I think I end up deleting at least a third of the comments I start to write because I realize I haven't figured out ways to express something properly. Or I'll blanket it in so many qualifiers to try to make sure I'm not misunderstood that the actual content is hard to parse out. And just text is a difficult, low-bandwidth medium because we don't get to see any of the cues associated with body language or tone. But hopefully I'll get better with practice. And I don't want to stop trying, because I think it's really important for us to figure this out. Thanks for taking the time to respond. It gives me hope that we'll be able to get through this.