How Can We Promote a Culture of Civility When Discussing Politics? DTH Episode 158 with Julian Adorney
๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฌ?
Why is it that people these days are so terrified of people of differing opinions and mindsets? Do you think it may have something to do with the toxicity we see in social media? Or maybe it’s the bombardment of “if it bleeds it leads”, hate, violence and bad news from the main stream 24 hour news cycle? Could it be the politicians, outrage entrepreneurs and grievance grifters that are peddling a constant stream of Fear, Outrage and Grievance? Julian Adorney and I tackle the question, how can we promote a culture of civility when discussing politics?
๐๐ก๐จ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ง ๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฒ?
Julian Adorney is a former political op-ed writer and current nonprofit marketer. I recently became familiar with Julian when he co-authored a piece with Mark Johnson for the FAIR substack entitled “How to bring civility back to our politics”. His work has also been featured in FEE, National Review, Playboy, and Lawrence Reed’s economics anthology Excuse Me, Professor.
Julian brought so much value to this episode, but one take that stood out for me was:
Using toxicity to create outrage may produce short term gains in terms of clicks for the outrage entrepreneur, but it tends to produce a net loss for the movement because it hardens the hearts of those of the opposing mindset.
๐ณ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฑ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐ป๐๐๐ฏ๐๐๐.๐๐๐