Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.
If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.
Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.
I think inevitably over the course of my lifetime there's been an underestimation of the American people, and I believe they are really the ones that give me hope. There's so much of "they don't know this, and they don't know that," and they're always denigrating.
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning,. . Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.