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Here we have the latest example of how people, on all sides, are getting more emo, intolerant, close minded,aggressive and hypocritical:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/donald-trum...

Ok so a Trump staff member decides to dine at a restaurant, someone in the staff notices and they don't like someone from Trumps regime being in their working proximity, so the Trump employee is made to leave the restaurant.

Next stage is a social media shark storm between supporters of both sides with everyone digging in for a long fight, no concessions.

So who wins? absolutely NO-ONE in my opinion: this isn't what winning looks like, no-one learned anything new from this experience and instead extreme views on both sides got consolidated even further. Opportunity for a chance to do something different shot down in flames.

What would a "winning" situation look like? For starters some DIALOGUE between the different parties rather than each simply attacking the other and then running away to hide in their echo chamber saying "I can't hear yooooo".

Both sides could have taken the time to listen to each others position and concerns and then discussed this further. A gay staff member worried about Trumps policies? Well here's a good chance to talk to them directly about your concerns but instead it is "get that person out of the building".

Why are people so afraid of taking the time to talk to and get to know a person whose ideas they don't like? Why do people have this need to shut opposing views down and/or banish them from their proximity?

The incident in the restaurant is interesting because the workers there and many of the customers all shared the same views ie it was a real life echo chamber...then someone with vastly different views stumbled unknowingly into the echo chamber and the echo chamber simply could not cope.

This my friends is why I only see things getting even more extreme and views even more polarised: intolerance is on the rise on both sides and meaningful, educational dialogue has been replaced by aggressive confrontations.

No-one wants to learn or try to understand anothers point of view...they just want to attack it and ultimately no one wins.

then they cry about how fudgeed up the world is, how mean people are to one another and on it goes. hello: time to look in the mirror rather than keep pointing the finger at everyone else me thinks,

Rather than an angry face and a "I'm not listening to you" attitude why not try do do something different and do it with a smile for starters. What is there to lose?

Or at least be honest and say your not interested in any real or meaningful discussion with people you disagree with and that you want them annihilated...because surely thats the end game for intolerance isn't it?

People huh.

Here we have the latest example of how people, on all sides, are getting more emo, intolerant, close minded,aggressive and hypocritical:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/donald-trum...

Ok so a Trump staff member decides to dine at a restaurant, someone in the staff notices and they don't like someone from Trumps regime being in their working proximity, so the Trump employee is made to leave the restaurant.

Next stage is a social media shark storm between supporters of both sides with everyone digging in for a long fight, no concessions.

So who wins? absolutely NO-ONE in my opinion: this isn't what winning looks like, no-one learned anything new from this experience and instead extreme views on both sides got consolidated even further. Opportunity for a chance to do something different shot down in flames.

What would a "winning" situation look like? For starters some DIALOGUE between the different parties rather than each simply attacking the other and then running away to hide in their echo chamber saying "I can't hear yooooo".

Both sides could have taken the time to listen to each others position and concerns and then discussed this further. A gay staff member worried about Trumps policies? Well here's a good chance to talk to them directly about your concerns but instead it is "get that person out of the building".

Why are people so afraid of taking the time to talk to and get to know a person whose ideas they don't like? Why do people have this need to shut opposing views down and/or banish them from their proximity?

The incident in the restaurant is interesting because the workers there and many of the customers all shared the same views ie it was a real life echo chamber...then someone with vastly different views stumbled unknowingly into the echo chamber and the echo chamber simply could not cope.

This my friends is why I only see things getting even more extreme and views even more polarised: intolerance is on the rise on both sides and meaningful, educational dialogue has been replaced by aggressive confrontations.

No-one wants to learn or try to understand anothers point of view...they just want to attack it and ultimately no one wins.

then they cry about how fudgeed up the world is, how mean people are to one another and on it goers. hello: time to look in the mirror rather than keep pointing the finger at everyone else me thinks,

Rather than an angry face and a "I'm not listening to you" attitude why not try do do something different and do it with a smile for starters. What is there to lose?

People huh.

Here we have the latest example of how people, on all sides, are getting more emo, intolerant, close minded,aggressive and hypocritical:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/donald-trum...

Ok so a Trump staff member decides to dine at a restaurant, someone in the staff notices and they don't like someone from Trumps regime being in their working proximity, so the Trump employee is made to leave the restaurant.

Next stage is a social media shark storm between supporters of both sides with everyone digging in for a long fight, no concessions.

So who wins? absolutely NO-ONE in my opinion: this isn't what winning looks like, no-one learned anything new from this experience and instead extreme views on both sides got consolidated even further. Opportunity for a chance to do something different shot down in flames.

What would a "winning" situation look like? For starters some DIALOGUE between the different parties rather than each simply attacking the other and then running away to hide in their echo chamber saying "I can't hear yooooo".

Both sides could have taken the time to listen to each others position and concerns and then discussed this further. A gay staff member worried about Trumps policies? Well here's a good chance to talk to them directly about your concerns but instead it is "get that person out of the building".

Why are people so afraid of taking the time to talk to and get to know a person whose ideas they don't like? Why do people have this need to shut opposing views down and/or banish them from their proximity?

The incident in the restaurant is interesting because the workers there and many of the customers all shared the same views ie it was a real life echo chamber...then someone with vastly different views stumbled unknowingly into the echo chamber and the echo chamber simply could not cope.

This my friends is why I only see things getting even more extreme and views even more polarised: intolerance is on the rise on both sides and meaningful, educational dialogue has been replaced by aggressive confrontations.

No-one wants to learn or try to understand anothers point of view...they just want to attack it and ultimately no one wins.

People huh.

Here we have the latest example of how people, on all sides, are getting more emo, intolerant, close minded,aggressive and hypocritical:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/donald-trum...

Ok so a Trump staff member decides to dine at a restaurant, someone in the staff notices and they don't like someone from Trumps regime being in their working proximity, so the Trump employee is made to leave the restaurant.

Next stage is a social media shark storm between supporters of both sides with everyone digging in for a long fight, no concessions.

So who wins? absolutely NO-ONE in my opinion: this isn't what winning looks like, no-one learned anything new from this experience and instead extreme views on both sides got consolidated even further. Opportunity for a chance to do something different shot down in flames.

What would a "winning" situation look like? For starters some DIALOGUE between the different parties rather than each simply attacking the other and then running away to hide in their echo chamber saying "I can't hear yooooo".

Both sides could have taken the time to listen to each others position and concerns and then discussed this further. A gay staff member worried about Trumps policies? Well here's a good chance to talk to them directly about your concerns but instead it is "get that person out of the building".

Why are people so afraid of taking the time to talk to and get to know a person whose ideas they don't like? Why do people have this need to shut opposing views down and/or banish them from their proximity?

The incident in the restaurant is interesting because the workers there and many of the customers all shared the same views ie it was a real life echo chamber...then someone with vastly different views stumbled unknowingly into the echo chamber and they simply could not cope.

This my friends is why I only see things getting even more extreme and views even more polarised: intolerance is on the rise on both sides and meaningful, educational dialogue has been replaced by aggressive confrontations.

No-one wants to learn or try to understand anothers point of view...they just want to attack it and ultimately no one wins.

People huh.

Here we have the latest example of how people, on all sides, are getting more emo, intolerant, close minded,aggressive and hypocritical:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/donald-trum...

Ok so a Trump staff member decides to dine at a restaurant, someone in the staff notices and they don't like someone from Trumps regime being in their working proximity, so the Trump employee is made to leave the restaurant.

Next stage is a social media shark storm between supporters of both sides with everyone digging in for a long fight, no concessions.

So who wins? absolutely NO-ONE in my opinion: this isn't what winning looks like, no-one learned anything new from this experience and instead extreme views on both sides got consolidated even further. Opportunity for a chance to do something different shot down in flames.

What would a "winning" situation look like? For starters some DIALOGUE between the different parties rather than each simply attacking the other and then running away to hide in their echo chamber saying "I can't hear yooooo".

Both sides could have taken the time to listen to each others position and concerns and then discussed this further. A gay staff member worried about Trumps policies? Well here's a good chance to talk to them directly about your concerns but instead it is "get that person out of the building".

Why are people so afraid of taking the time to talk to and get to know a person whose ideas they don't like? Why do people have this need to shut opposing views down and/or banish them from their proximity?

The incident in the restaurant is interesting because the workers there and many of the customers all shared the same views ie it was a real life echo chamber...then someone with vastly different views stumbled unknowingly into the echo chamber and they simply could not cope.

This my friends is why I only see things getting even more extreme and views even more polarised: intolerance is on the rise on both sides and meaningful, educational dialogue has been replaced by aggressive confrontations.

No-one wants to learn or try to understand anothers point of view...they just want to attack it.

Here we have the latest example of how people, on all sides, are getting more emo, intolerant, close minded,aggressive and hypocritical:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/donald-trum...

Ok so a Trump staff member decides to dine at a restaurant, someone in the staff notices and they don't like someone from Trumps regime being in their working proximity, so the Trump employee is made to leave the restaurant.

Next stage is a social media shark storm between supporters of both sides with everyone digging in for a long fight, no concessions.

So who wins? absolutely NO-ONE in my opinion: this isn't what winning looks like, no-one learned anything new from this experience and instead extreme views on both sides got consolidated even further. Opportunity for a chance to do something different shot down in flames.

What would a "winning" situation look like? For starters some DIALOGUE between the different parties rather than each simply attacking the other and going for the jugular.

Both sides could have taken the time to listen to each others position and concerns and then discussed this further. A gay staff member worried about Trumps policies? Well here's a good chance to talk to them directly about your concerns but instead it is "get that person out of the building".

Why are people so afraid of taking the time to talk to and get to know a person whose ideas they don't like? Why do people have this need to shut opposing views down and/or banish them from their proximity?

The incident in the restaurant is interesting because the workers there and many of the customers all shared the same views ie it was a real life echo chamber...then someone with vastly different views stumbled unknowingly into the echo chamber and they simply could not cope.

This my friends is why I only see things getting even more extreme and views even more polarised: intolerance is on the rise on both sides and meaningful, educational dialogue has been replaced by aggressive confrontations.

No-one wants to learn or try to understand anothers point of view...they just want to attack it.