Discussion

https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_can_a_divided_america_heal/transcript?language=en

Reflection Discussion: Briefly address the following questions. Read the Twitter post and watch Haidt’s Ted Talk. For a little background, Cory Clark is joining Jonathan Haidt’s Heterodox Academy. https://heterodoxacademy.org/. Haidt is a morality psychologist and his position is that we need more political diversity and ideologies in academia. However, scientists have pushed back and said that some of the so-called conservative ideologies are grounded in nationalism and prejudice.

-In Haidt’s video, he suggests that nationalists are correct—increasing cultural similarities within a nation can promote progressive policies. Do you agree with this thinking? Why or why not?