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> Politics is so heavily polarized that 'I assume they will assume'. [...] Intersectional issues (race/gender/class), some things about China, obviously religion - they're all so loaded it's hard to have a discussion

Agreed...

That said, there are people who are happy to have an open discussion without judging everything on the basis of "friend" / "enemy". I wonder if there's a forum, online or offline, where ideas are shared and discussed in good faith.

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> I wonder if there's a forum...

There was one https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread... <- a very interesting read.

Various satellite forums of slatestarcodex have grown and are around, and only the original Culture War thread is gone. That whole group seems to be politically mixed and at least partially vaccinated against the dangers of framing political disagreements in terms of tribes and dehumanising the outgroup/opponent.

A very interesting read indeed.

In this case, it seems the original attempt didn't survive the influx of people from outside who were not interested in a civil discussion.

Perhaps a smaller, invitation only, forum might stand a better chance?

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