"You Want Us to Compromise With Those Extremists?": A Common Objection to This Work - Builders

People in America working to overcome toxic polarization and the toxic us vs. them mindset are often met with the same criticism: “Isn’t asking everyone to ‘meet in the middle’ normalizing extreme or harmful viewpoints? What about violent hate groups? Should we engage with them?” It’s sometimes assumed that depolarization movements value unity above everything…