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Researchers surveyed hundreds of elected officials in three Southern California counties. They found 2 in 3 respondents had been threatened or abused – and that many worried for their safety.
People acknowledging and inspecting their own political biases is one way that they can begin to reduce polarization.
Language can provoke violence between groups especially when people paint others as threats.
Political debate has always been filled with heated words and deeply held emotions. But the level of civility in political discourse has reached a new low.
Like today, passions were strong and political discourse was inflamed in late 18th-century America. Angry mobs torched buildings. Virginians drank a toast to George Washington’s speedy death.
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W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University
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Professor of American History, Università di Torino
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
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Director, Violence, Inequality and Power Lab, Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego
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Associate Professor of Public Affairs, University of South Florida