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To achieve lasting change sometimes requires the hard, even radical, choice of partnering with people you'd least expect. Justice reform advocate Nisha Anand shares her story of working with her ideological opposite to make history and save lives — and urges us all to widen our circles in order to make progress with purpose.
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Only in a deeply polarised civilisation could choosing common ground be considered in any way “radical”.
The lunatics have taken over the asylum and the only thing left to do is laugh.
@niccolom BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Imbecile. You’re simply not worth the effort needed to form an instructive reply.
Cheerio, bed wetter.
@somedeveloperblokey
Ah, I see someone who failed to make a valid argument, so he resorted to ad hominem.
Good work there, mate. I’m sure your life must be a success. I mean, I admire your courage to showcase your incoherence on the internet.
@niccolom it’s a sign of insecurity… and with insecurity people go for those people who present strong and clear cut ideas. The problem is that doubt is a sign of consideration and thought… but seems like weakness. Division creates insecurity and makes it more important to go against them compared to going for your own goal.
@Sven Brede I agree with most of what you said, but I want to make a subtle differentiation between doubt and consideration.
Doubt happens when you already have an answer, but you aren’t confident with it. It is indeed a sign of weakness.
Consideration and thought happen before you find your answer. It’s okay to tell others “I have not made a decision yet.” That’s not weak.
Division makes it more important to go against the opposite party first because the opposite party is a roadblock to your own goal.
Confidence is a scary thing, when people are wrong but are confident that they are right. That’s how polarization formed. If people were stupid, have no opinions, and easily swayed, then the society wouldn’t be polarized.
@somedeveloperblokey That’s what losers say when they refuse to admit defeat.
I’ve seen that so many times here. You’re not the first and you won’t be the last that my impeccable logic and morals steamroll over.
Now, you go back to flipping burgers.
I did not know so many things omg I thank you
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Beautiful sentiment, debate and find common ground, meeting in the middle on issues is how our whole u.s. system is supposed to work, unfortunately it hasn’t happened much but this lefty seeing the point is beautiful and gives hope
This Lefty does too. Been trying to make this happen.
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Very inspiring story.
She forgot that the Crime Bill was written by Sen. Joe Biden who didn’t participate in the crafting of the First Step Act.
Still better than the aspiring authoritarian
Have a lovely civil war – your countrymen seem determined to wipe each other out.
Have a little pray about it – I’m certain that THIS TIME, it’ll have some kind of tangible effect – right?
LMAO!!
Ever hear the expression there is to mush water under the bridge? Well that’s why we build bridges, so all can get over it. The path of common ground and tolerance is the path of courage.
A nice thought but powerful people dont think that way and there are far too many powerful want things to stay as they are because it keeps them ritch
Good job homie,respect+
I’m an Arab American and I agree with this so much. People have become too divided, and refuse to look for common ground, and it’s hard to see. We’re all human, and the longer we stay divided, the less likely we are to advance as a society.
You are right, division that stirrs up hate comes from evil and sin. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is a historicaly validated fact! Thousands of prophecies have been fullfilled, and they do it today!
The ark of Noah has been found on Ararat.
Sience confirmes the existence of an source of infinite intelligence as the origin of our complex world.
Whoever repents over his sins receives the gift of eternal life from God.
Well that took an unexpected turn.
Haha just in time for tuesday election
The American (un)Civil war 2.0 will be fascinating to watch, from an anthropological perspective – on an entirely different continent.
Someone should invade and finally bring democracy to their shores!
After some careful analysis of this comment thread, it seems that a minority of humans are actively against finding any kind of commonality with their fellow humans.
Have a nice civil war everyone.
just say _men_
@mother nature No because that would be discriminatory and both genders (and potentially those in between) are represented in the final analysis.
Being a selfish human is not limited to either gender.
I love this SO MUCH! PArt of my work is in showing everyone how similar we all are, the projection effect theorizes that we only observe something in a way we too are actually doing it, just in an individualized way. This is eloquently crafted and well done.❤
Down here in the comments is like “the commons”, the town square. But we all come to it with reactions, just like everywhere we go in our day-to-day lives. People don’t care enough about strangers, or themselves for that matter. If we all cared about ourselves and each other, we would have common ground. I watched this video because Nisha Anand is hot, but then I learned something.
I would like to say that with finding common ground it the parties involved could still see it as a loss and just try to have it all their way.
But who am I when I’m just an person typing on yt
I’d like wider audience to see and understand it.