Getting to know the other side

Featured on a recent NPR story, Better Angels is a group for people with different political views to meet and learn about each other. It sounds really cool! The goal of the organization is to prevent a major divide along political lines from happening. It’s too easy to be exposed to thought similar to your own if you just use the Internet sounding board to get news and opinions. People online tend to be more extreme than in person, so it’s also easy to get a skewed picture of a certain political group or demographic.

 

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