Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes with Ilana Redstone
Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes with Ilana Redstone
We have important societal problems to solve. To find the best path forward, we must have open and honest discussions about sensitive topics. In Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes, sociologist Ilana Redstone offers tools and techniques to begin the tough conversations necessary for more open dialogue across divides.
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Applying social penalties too broadly creates many other problems, including pushing people to extreme positions. The way forward is to shift the baseline assumption…
3. The Problem of Excessive Social Penalties:…
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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…
6. Putting the Lessons into Practice: Beyond…
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Talk 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.
7. Take Aways and Summaries: Beyond Bigots and…
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Circumstances in the spring and summer of 2020 — the coronavirus pandemic and the death of George Floyd — highlighted the importance of being able to solve…
Before We Begin: Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes…
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The 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…
5. The Problem of Relying on Science to Bridge…
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When 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…
4.The Problem of Telling People to Stay in Their…
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We 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…
2.The Problem of Unintentionally Treating Beliefs…
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Our 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…
1. Building Community Through Viewpoint…
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