In practice (not ideology), what in your experience do you have to do, to be seen as human by somebody very unlike you?
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Replying to @vgr
Listen. Ask questions. Be respectful. Look for common ground.
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Replying to @vgr
Yes. Often. Not always of course. But more often than you might imagine.
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Replying to @jstogdill @vgr
What's an example of someone you've had this work with? As in, in which ways they were "very unlike you"?
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I'm happy to discuss. But it feels like the quotes denote a subtext. Is there something in particular on your mind?
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Replying to @jstogdill @vgr
Oh, no subtext. Just wondering how far have you managed to take this approach and have it work. The quotes were because I was quoting.
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Wondering because it seems to me listening and being respectful only works for bridging relatively small "unlike" gaps.
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Weirdly, it might work better for bigger gaps. I made good friends with a Thackeray-voting Maharashtrian in Mumbai ...
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lol, did you know what you were doing? (as in, have an idea about what shiv sena affiliation signals in indian politics?)
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