Neil Gonsalves’ Post

“If we cannot have inquiry without attributing ill will to the person asking the question or the person making a comment that may be ill-informed, it is hard to have a public square” If you are unfamiliar with Stand Together, I highly recommend checking out their work. - Stand Together is a philanthropic community helping the boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of some of the biggest social problems. Their content is exceptional and their video shorts are fantastic. Here are a couple of my favourite videos: * Irshad Manji | Overcome Division in 8 minutes - https://lnkd.in/gSTDj9U2 * Eboo Patel | The role of faith in America today in 5 minutes - https://lnkd.in/gHJZPYTg Excerpts from the article and video I have shared below on pluralism: 📌 - “… [when] the people who are asking questions leave the public square because the risk of engaging is too high... we leave the public square to the toxifiers, because the toxifiers want to own the square. If they can own the square and push us out, then they decide our future. And I think that’s happening in our society.” 🎯 - Pluralism defined; “[A]t the most basic level, [pluralism is] a set of principles and practices that enable diverse people to live well together… We can recognize a core set of principles, principles like dignity, the notion that every person — no matter who they are, where they come from, what they look like, what their parents did — has inherent dignity. And that dignity requires respect. When we organize societies around principles like that, we get a pluralistic society.” 💡- Pluralism has not always been present in human society. “[W]e do tend to take that idea for granted, that diverse people can live well together,” noted Hooks. For most of human history, the way that societies dealt with those who were different from them or who they disagreed with was to conquer them or to be conquered by them.” #pluralism #standtogether #sgp23 #diversityandinclusion #viewpointdiversity https://lnkd.in/gajUr8Fq