Tribalism is Dumb Quotes

“Even if we have made the conscious decision to be nice to people we argue with, we’re still not going to be very good at it. Albert Mehrabian, a professor of psychology at UCLA, devised the 7-38-55 rule.30 Fifty-five percent of communication is through body language. People communicate 38 percent of their message through tone of voice. A mere 7 percent comes through spoken word. Social media is mostly text, so it’s easy to misattribute malice or sneers where there are none.”
― Andrew Heaton, Tribalism is Dumb: Where it Came From, How it Got So Bad, and What To Do About it

“Meanwhile, alt-right trolls perform a variant of virtue signaling called “unvirtue signaling,” where they flout the social norms and manners of pearl-clutching liberals. Saying terms that are offensive to or forbidden by the politically correct displays both contempt for the enemy tribe as well as bravery in combating it. Trolls”
― Andrew Heaton, Tribalism is Dumb: Where it Came From, How it Got So Bad, and What To Do About it

“Teeter-Totter/tribal/partisan politics increasingly gives those who are drunk on tribal warfare license to suspend basic human decency.”
― Andrew Heaton, Tribalism is Dumb: Where it Came From, How it Got So Bad, and What To Do About it