Danille Elise Christensen
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Nguyen argues that depolarization might be best accomplished (or at least begun) by building individual relationships of trust with those who take hard-line and/or post-truth stances, rather than demonizing folks or bombarding them with information. #ReachOut
04:11 PM - Apr 30, 2023 (Edited)
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Danille Elise Christensen
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Just a small sampling of items collected by this doctor
09:44 PM - Mar 18, 2023
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Danille Elise Christensen
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In response to ridley.
my pleasure! good luck--every bit of help counts.
01:01 PM - Mar 16, 2023
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Danille Elise Christensen
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In response to ridley.
4) Get involved in progressive rural organizing and mutual aid groups that are building community capacity (through addiction recovery, employment, education, environmental justice, infrastructure, grantmaking, artmaking, history-telling, food security, etc.) e.g., https://ruralorganizing.or...
06:29 PM - Mar 15, 2023 (Edited)
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Danille Elise Christensen
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In response to ridley.
3) Amplify new (true, complex) stories for folks on the political left and the political right. We can all be better about the stereotypes we construct and perpetuate
06:22 PM - Mar 15, 2023
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Danille Elise Christensen
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In response to ridley.
2) Work to build coalitions across categories like race, and to call out racialized discourses and systems. Since the wages of whiteness are real, disrupting those narratives and systems is important--but while recognizing that people act according to logics, however faulty or misguided
06:20 PM - Mar 15, 2023
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Danille Elise Christensen
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In response to ridley.
No easy solutions, but I'll post some ideas. 1) Increase voter turnout/political participation. Lots of places deemed "Trump Country" actually have very low voter turnout, so just a few people carry the vote. Active voter suppression, logistical issues, and decades of disenfranchisement contribute.
06:07 PM - Mar 15, 2023
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Danille Elise Christensen
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In response to ridley.
I'm in Appalachia, where unbridled capitalism (e.g., extractive industries and predatory pharma) has indeed destroyed people and their environments, but is it fair to say "they" chose this? I agree that the situation is frustrating, but I don't think "us vs. them" framings are part of the solution.
11:47 AM - Mar 15, 2023
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Danille Elise Christensen
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Have you stopped to talk with any of the people in these towns? I think you'd find that the picture is much more complicated--and certainly different from place to place.
11:17 PM - Mar 14, 2023
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