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> It didn’t make me more likely to evaluate my belief on that it made me angry and sad and a bit silenced. People are very quick to work out whether they're be
by nyokodo 6y ago
> It didn’t make me more likely to evaluate my belief on that it made me angry and sad and a bit silenced.
People are very quick to work out whether they're being listened to or whether they're just soundboards for another's ideology. When they're treated like soundboards they tend to get entrenched, when they're listened to they tend to listen in return. People listening to each other is the only hope of finding a common way forward, everything else just ends in sectarian violence. It is amazing that simply tolerating a diversity of opinions and listening to them has become such a radical notion!
- jjcon 6y agoWell stated, I wholeheartedly agree. > It is amazing that simply tolerating a diversity of opinions and listening to them has become such a radical notion! I hope and believe that in time it will become less so again.
- nyokodo 6y agoIt will probably get worse before it gets better but I share your hope and supporting our hope are historical counter-cultural corrections to their over-the-top antecedents (e.g. the 60s vs McCarthyism).