4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Why do we hate one another - and how can we stop?
How and when does conflict metastasize into hatred? Dessa picks apart the science of hostility, with help from a criminologist who identifies the tipping point between prejudice and hate, and an Israeli psychologist who's studied one of the longest conflicts in the world today.
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0:00.0 | It's springtime in Minneapolis, my hometown. |
0:07.0 | The snow is melting and a lot of signage is on display. |
0:10.0 | Signs posted on people's lawns, taped to their windows or tacked to their doors. |
0:14.0 | And one of the most popular reads, Hate has no home here. |
0:18.0 | Maybe you've seen that sign too. |
0:20.0 | There's an online map full of pins where they've been spotted, |
0:22.6 | from South Korea to Somalia. |
0:24.9 | That sign campaign, started in 2017 by a group of neighbors in Chicago, |
0:29.6 | means to resist bigotry and to extend kindness to people on the margins of our society. |
0:35.0 | And the spirit of the sign is unimpeachable. |
0:39.5 | But the literalist in me wonders what that phrase really means. |
0:41.9 | Like, do the people who live in those houses |
0:44.3 | permit themselves to hate a concept, |
0:47.1 | like bigotry? |
0:49.1 | Late at night over drinks with friends, |
0:51.2 | would they admit to hating extremists |
0:52.9 | of the opposing party? |
0:54.7 | Are we allowed to hate hate groups? |
0:58.6 | This is deeply human, the show about why you do what you do. |
1:02.3 | I'm Dessa, host and fellow human being, often overwhelmed by the vitriol and violence on the |
1:07.7 | news and in the social feeds. |
1:09.7 | So the question du jour is, |
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