{"id":29420,"date":"2019-07-05T20:31:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T01:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29420"},"modified":"2019-07-05T20:31:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T01:31:54","slug":"briefly-groups-which-dont-understand-each-other-are-bound-to-have-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29420","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Groups which don\u2019t understand each other are bound to have conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Different-inside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29421\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Different-inside.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Different-inside.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Different-inside-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost none of the angry people shouting at each other online \u2014 about politics, social issues, religion, whatever \u2014 seem to have even the slightest interest in understanding the people they hate. They often even claim they don\u2019t hate the others, but their actions say otherwise. Almost everything they say is for their allies, because what they\u2019re saying is complete nonsense to their enemies. If you profoundly misunderstand your opponent \u2014 and if he profoundly misunderstands you \u2014 is it any wonder you each end up wanting to kill the other? If each group understood the other, things could be so different, because it\u2019s hard to hate people you truly understand. We might even find solutions which allow people with radically different views of the world to live in peace, separate from one another but each with honest understanding of the other. But none of that is possible if you won\u2019t even try to understand the people with whom you disagree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost none of the angry people shouting at each other online \u2014 about politics, social issues, religion, whatever \u2014 seem to have even the slightest interest in understanding the people they hate. They often even claim they don\u2019t hate the others, but their actions say otherwise. Almost everything they say is for their allies, because <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29420\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7Ew","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29422,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29420\/revisions\/29422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}