Ash Hirani, founding signatory of Don’t Divide Us, writing here for The Conservative Woman, considers some of the unhelpful and corrosive features of our current public discourse – features that close down and oversimplify when we need plurality, complexity and tolerance:
The most disconcerting of all recent behaviours is the willingness, and even zeal, to dehumanise opponents. Never mind listening, let alone actually hearing, the need to demean in order to maintain the upper hand is an ever-growing phenomenon.
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