Whoever is underrepresented in your life will be overrepresented in your imagination.

Instead of people, you'll see monsters. Instead of possibilities, you'll see disasters.

That's the challenge of a polarized world.

Here are 3 q's you can ask to meet it. 🧵 #reclaimcuriosity 1. Ask *how* not *why.* "How did you come to believe what you believe?"

They walk the path they took to their views and you walk right alongside them.

It's a tour, not a trial.

As someone who leans liberal, spent her whole career in mainstream U.S. journalism, & is digging into how the hell we see each other across nasty divides, I'm spending more & more time w/ media from the right.

And the most illuminating, honestly, is @TheBabylonBee

(THREAD) First off, it's transparent about its worldview — "Your Trusted Source For Christian News Satire" — not purporting to speak for everyone.

And its tagline is "Fake news you can trust." Which, I mean, come on that's really good.

Seeing that Candace Owens is trending and wondering:

How many public figures now act on a firm conviction that the only way to stand out in a society that struggles to listen is to provoke? Is it most of them?

How many fall for it? Is it most of us? Issue 1: We CAN listen. We’re just out of practice, or tired of trying on platforms where scripts and performances tend to win out anyway. Like this one.

Issue 2: Behind most angry outbursts there’s a real concern. Sometimes an unsavory or unpopular one. Can we hear it? Name it?