Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes with Ilana Redstone
Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes with Ilana Redstone
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From Ilana Redstone
Applying social penalties too broadly creates many other problems, including pushing people to extreme positions. The way forward is to shift the baseline assumption… -
From Ilana Redstone
It is necessary to have a clear and explicit goal of the kind of environment an institution or organization wants to create when the priority is maintaining tolerance… -
From Ilana Redstone
| 120 120 playsTalk to people who think differently from you. Be curious. Be open. Be willing to be wrong and be willing to question what it is you think you know. -
From Ilana Redstone
| 350 350 playsCircumstances in the spring and summer of 2020 — the coronavirus pandemic and the death of George Floyd — highlighted the importance of being able to solve… -
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| 139 139 playsThe assumption underlying the idea that science will bridge ideological divides is that: If we all had the same information, we’d all think the same thing. The… -
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| 152 152 playsWhen the costs are fully considered, it becomes clear that someone's identity can't be used to determine whether they can weigh in on a particular issue… -
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| 329 329 playsWe like to think that the filters we use to interpret the world are created only by facts, but our beliefs play a role too. And sometimes it’s hard to tell the… -
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| 335 335 playsOur worldviews shape how we filter information and how we understand and interpret the world. So what happens when you and I see the same thing, the same action, but our…