How to talk someone out of bigotry
Brian Resnick,
Vox,
Feb 01, 2020
Here's David Broockman: "Twitter is obviously full of the notion that what we should do is condemn those who disagree with us. What we can now say experimentally, the key to the success of these conversations is doing the exact opposite of that." Described in this article is a method called 'deep canvassing'. We can think quite easily of an analogous 'deep teaching'. See for example Elliott Seif or Bryan M. Dewsbury. "Giving grace. Listening to a political opponent's concerns. Finding common humanity. In 2020, these seem like radical propositions. But when it comes to changing minds, they work."
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