At this week's Round Table, Inica, Isaiah, and Madeline spoke with two of our O.G. podcasters, Julianna Davis and Riya Mehta. If you haven’t listened to our first season podcasts from last year, we highly recommend you go back to hear their great work. We reflected on the very unusual 2020-21 school year through the lens of first year college students, discussing the heated political environment on college campuses; the social cost, and value, of being political in college; and the implications of most “political dialogue” transpiring through Instagram stories. We also talked about the value of “talking with” vs “talking at”--and ensuring that “talking with” includes people with divergent perspectives; pervasive lack of respect for nuance; and the importance of not jumping to conclusions about who someone is based on their views or posts (or lack thereof) and instead thinking about WHY people think the way they do. Together, we pondered the scary rise in hate crimes; whether more and, more importantly, different kinds of dialogue could help resolve some seemingly intractable divides; and how our views about social justice have or haven’t changed over the course of this strange year. Thank you for joining us!
