You can build suspension suspicion of your immigrant neighbors or of your queer friend at school if people don't have those relationships. And one of actually the good news is that The fastest way that you can defuse movements like [right-wing populism] is actually building those social ties. Because then when you know these horrible caricatures are set in public, people say, wait a second, no, I know my friend, that's like this. And they aren't like that. (1:09:01–1:09:08)
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Asserts that building social ties is the quickest way to counteract right-wing populism.
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