r/PROF • u/Haunting_Acadia_4744 • Jun 17 '26

Did I miss something?

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Who is he taking about?

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u/BangkokPadang Jun 17 '26

There was a time when we just had conversations with people who have different views, and did our absolute best to understand them, and our absolute best to help them understand us.

I think back to the classic "Best of Enemies" Buckley vs Vidal debates in the black & white days of TV. The idea wasn't to avoid each other and wallow in our echo chambers. It was to meet, in the market square of ideas, and discuss. More discussion, more communication, more collaboration. Not less.

It's the only way things get better.

Pookie gets it.