Deep Canvassing Can Break Down Our Inner Group Blinders

Political canvassing involves knocking on someone's door and launching into a one way conversation filled with facts, figures and strong arguments. This style of canvassing doesn't really work, especially when the usual political partisanship tightens its grip. A new kind of canvassing can break down our inner group blinders by using empathic practices that jemil and his students used in that disagreeing. Better assignment. Deep canvassing is a a longer form of canvassing that really involves sharing personal narratives about their lives. By walking through the life of an undocen, an imigrant or a transgender person, it tends to shut off the indifference we typically feel for people outside our tribe....