Seems important.
«Five to 15 percent said they would support some level of violence against their political opponents. (And this range was the same on both sides.) That’s a minority, but high conflict is almost always stoked by a small number of people.
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Do people actually become less hateful if someone tells them it’s not cool to be hateful? Yes, it turns out, many do.
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You can even do it yourself, right now, at home. People were also pacified by tweets calling for peace from random strangers, Kalmoe and Mason found.
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Millions of regular Americans still have enough distance from the conflict to step out of it. And that may not always be true.»