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What drives someone to commit politically motivated violence? The unsettling answer lies in daily habits. Behavioral historian Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah shares startling insights into how seemingly mundane choices can breed polarization that lead to extreme, even deadly, actions — and explains how to identify and bypass these behaviors in order to rediscover common ground.
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Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Truer words were never spoken.
Oh my goodness this talk was so wonderfully put together and eloquently delivered. Timely and impactful as always, way to go TED 🙂
Hello
2:31 this is one of three moments that reshaped my world, . everything went askew, . like a blip on a screen, . my world changed.
8:13 not everyone has singular empathy, . some react the same even if it was an animal
hate, intolerance, xenophobia, racism, it’s all taught, . we are not BORN racist.
Uh dude….That’s exactly what she said. “That is not biologically fixed. That is learned behaviour.”
Trump followers make these same bubbles… my neighbor, their whole family literally think Trump was sent by God. They out things like his ability to play three tier chess, but won’t say where their source comes from. We all have smart phones, yet people don’t google… they simply react to whatever fits their narrative
Trump is not Sheldon Cooper…
Betting this same behavioral model can be used even on ANTIFA people. 2020 is insane
Bide Biden can’t even play tic tac toe
@Arnold Crentist … source of information? Or are you just being spiteful
@Rooted Reality I’m making a joke. Because he clearly is in severe cognitive decline and is unable to compete sentences or hold a Q and A without a teleprompter. I don’t really care what board games he can play.
Propaganda of the Deed
8:00 I’m white, but that left hand’s colour looks so unnatural. I’m also pretty sure my actual skin colour is closer to the right picture.
Yeah it’s the same thing for me.
Abu?
Question. How do we achieve our political goals/agenda without violence? Everything we do in America, is instituted through violence. Don’t have money to pay your bills? Get thrown out (violence). Dont have money for food? Starve (violence). Dont have the money for a good/rich lawyer? Get thrown in jail (violence). And who has a monopoly on violence? The government/state and the rich. Its only a problem when the poor or minority issue violence. How do we break that cycle? Because incremental reform aint cutting it. Please respond with legit comments.
Important topic, but am I the only one here finding it hard to listen to the video?
Amazing ❤️
You said the truth
That was amazing! Greetings from Italy
In her example its not the joy of paining the other team but the desperation of people who get their land stolen, being deprived, dewatered and harassed by a violent occupier of their homeland making them incapable of living in a normal way.
Remember, media is prompting you to become angry. The angrier you become, the more you read. If you become so angry that you crack and go postal, you become the next Headline.
Gutenberg was a mistake.
How do daily habits of ignoring the actual content in TED videos lead to cultural ignorance and echo chambers of bigots ?
Racists, homophobes, haters and the violent prone have all
been emotionally hijacked .
Mentally ill people don’t want to find common ground. So if the narrative is to have mentally ill peoples lifestyle the higher virtue? Where is the common ground they can be met?
By believing in scientism and occult esoteric secret society new world agenda propaganda. Next question please.
Excellent.
Wow, that’s so fascinating
…is what I’d say if I was in preschool….