Experiencing Hatred: True Stories to End Hate and Educate

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USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

CPF hosts a panel discussion on "Experiencing Hatred: True Stories to End Hate and Educate" as part of our "Combating Antisemitism and Hatred Series." The series explores the struggle against antisemitism in the context of countering hate, reducing violence, promoting empathy, and nurturing civil dialogue.

Featuring:

Jeff Blattner: US Department of Justice Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Former Judiciary Committee Chief Counsel for Sen. Edward Kennedy; Fall 2024 CPF Fellow
Rob Eshman: Contributing Editor of The Forward; Former Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish Journal
Ron Galperin: Former Controller and CFO for the City of Los Angeles; Former CPF Fellow
Aziza Hasan: Executive Director, Muslim Jewish New Ground; Former member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Todd Levinson: Host of “Healing Race” podcast; Producer at MainStream Nation
Aaron Nir: CEO of Sanei International; CPF Board of Councilors Member
Pedro Noguera: Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education
Marylouise Oates: Novelist, Activist, Former LA Times Journalist
Dov Wagner: Rabbi and Director of the USC Chabad Jewish Center
Kamy Akhavan: Managing Director, Center for the Political Future

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.5	I wanted to welcome all of you to the second and final panel for today's conference on
0:34.6	combating anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred. I wanted to share with
0:38.6	you a quote that you probably all know. It's a quote from Maya Angelou. And she said, I've learned
0:43.9	that people will forget what you said. People will forget what you did, but people will never
0:50.0	forget how you made them feel. Right. And so getting people to feel your words, getting people to
0:56.5	feel your thoughts, that happens through narrative or stories. And today we're going to be hearing
1:01.3	some incredibly powerful stories about hatred. All of you in this room have experienced some
1:06.8	form of hatred in your lives, either for your ethnicity, your heritage, your race, your gender.
1:11.8	It could be any reason at all, or it could be no reason at all. How do we combat hatred?
1:17.2	I've been involved in this work of combating hatred for a few decades now, and I can tell you
1:21.8	that it really comes down to listening and empathy. Those are some of the core tools we have
1:26.7	in the tool chest. It's not
1:29.4	violence. It is not even facts. It is listening and it is empathy. So on MRI scans, and this is true,
1:37.5	there's many different areas of the brain that light up when you're telling stories. The brain
1:41.5	network that processes emotions, obviously that gets triggered.
1:44.7	Areas that are involved in movement, those get triggered. As your story unfolds, your brain waves
1:51.1	actually start to synchronize with the person telling the story. The greater the listener's
1:56.4	comprehension, the more those brainwave patterns are mirrored. It's really remarkable. And if you look at the time
2:02.4	somebody's beliefs have changed, oftentimes the origin of that change has to do with someone
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