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Political Incivility

Civil Discourse And The Intentional Conversation

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Marymount, Kanye West, Joseph Biden, Joe Wilson, Conversation, Intentional Conversation, Serena Williams, Henry Louis Gates, Partisanship, Joseph Crowley, Political Incivility, Civility, Civil Discourse, Barack Obama, Relationships, Living News
Hoyt Hilsman

What is an Intentional Conversation? Stated simply: It is a structured conversation with no purpose other than the conversation itself.

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Incivility: The Root Cause Is Lack of Empathy

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

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Lisa Earle McLeod

It would be easy to go off on a rant about the disrespectful Congressman, the angry athlete or the scene-stealing rapper, but these people are not acting in a cultural vacuum.

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How Race Turns up the Volume on Incivility: A Scientifically Informed Post-Mortem to a Controversy

Drew Westen | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

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Drew Westen

What's been missing from our national discourse on "is it race or isn't it?" is the distinction psychologists and neuroscientists have made for over two decades between conscious and unconscious prejudice.

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The Damage that Time has Done

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media

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Joe The Nerd Ferraro

Time's cover is the beginning of a rehab job for Glenn Beck. The magazine is trying once again to make it okay for people to sponsor this "person".

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Curb Your Enthusiasm: Live From Capitol Hill

Nancy Snow | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Moscone, Dan White, Rush Limbaugh, Nancy Pelosi, Civility, Political Violence, Glenn Beck, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Political Rhetoric, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Political Incivility, Harvey Milk, Politics News
Nancy Snow

Many Americans are talking back to government, some more viciously than the majority, but Pelosi's broad brush seems to paint all Obama administration critics as potential violent offenders and inciters.

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When God Tells You to Hate

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Religion and Politics, Intolerance, Political Incivility, Rick Warren, HIV/AIDS, Constantine, Old Testament, Ronald Reagan, Christianity, Eighties, Seventies, Home News
Deepak Chopra

The rise of incivility in our time displays behavior that cannot be eradicated. At best it is controlled. Sane, civil people have always been the gatekeepers of mature behavior and the teachers of morality.

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Breaking News: Someone Says Something; Others Offended

Spencer Green | Posted 11.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Public Apologies, Serena Williams, Media, Kanye West, Media Criticism, Political Incivility, Joe Wilson, Comedy News
Spencer Green

Several groups are angry with something said by someone in front of some people somewhere. Someone then appeared in a highly visible public forum where he or she apologized publicly.

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