I Care About Influencing People, Not Creating An Echo Chamber
Channel: Alex Zorach
Date: 2017-07-07

Recently I've been witnessing exchanges in which one person will say: "You might influence people more if you were more respectful to those with opposing viewpoints."  and the first will respond "I'm not trying to influence them, I'm just trying to rally support for my cause. Here I explain why I feel very differently -- I do care about reaching people with opposing viewpoints, and I don't want to create an echo chamber by only talking to people who already believe what I'm saying.