Racism is rampant. All sides, in the barrage of social media regarding the shootings of civilians and officers, have demonstrated these racist tendencies: us-them talk herd thinking confirmation bias These further no one’s cause and foster the opposite, as any social scientist will tell you. Talking in terms of “us versus them” alienates. It objectifies and dehumanizes. It distances people …
confirmation bias
Political Feuding and Categorization
I first met Dr. Deanna Womack in Canada at a conference in which we both were presenting papers and wish to draw attention to her scholarship. Now at Emory University, she has completed important work on the history of North American missionaries in Beirut in the 19th century. She discusses the inter-religious interaction between Christians and Muslims in the Ottoman Syria. Like any set of …