Derate The Hate
Bettering the world one attitude at a time. We did not create the hate, but together, we can πΏππ§ππ©π πππ πππ©π! In a world filled with divisiveness, and dominated by F.O.G. (Fear, Outrage & Grievance), it's time we find a better way to engage. That all starts with each of us as individuals. We cannot control all that we encounter within our day to day lives, or the environment in which we live, but we certainly have the ability and responsibility to control how we react to it. For me, it starts with gratitude and personal accountability. Take a listen and see if there is something here to help you in taking your part in turning down the hate. Welcome to the πΏππ§ππ©π πππ πππ©π ππ€ππππ¨π©...
Derate The Hate
Latest Episodes
Leaving Groupthink: A Former Progressive Operative on Learning to Think for Herself β DTH Episode 341 with Sabrina Joy Stevens
Sabrina Joy Stevens didnβt study groupthink from the outside. She spent two decades inside it. Starting as a college activist in the early 2000s and later working as a progressive political operative in Washington, she absorbed an oppressor-ver...
Nothing Is Waste: Turning Tension Into Common Ground β DTH Episode 340 with Derek Richard Thomas and Alizabeth Thomas
Derek Richard Thomas spent ten years touring in a rock band, looking out the van window at farm fields tilled flat and left bare. He had studied horticulture before music, and he knew what that does to soil. For a decade, the same sketch kept s...
Why I Won't Tell My Students Who I'm Voting For β DTH Episode 339 with April Chatham-Carpenter
This episode opens a new Derate the Hate series built around the Braver Angels Civic Scholars Council, a cross-partisan group of scholars and practitioners writing about what courageous citizenship looks like in practice. The series came out of...
You Canβt Name Injustice Without Knowing What Justice Is β DTH Episode 338 with John Adams
Most of us talk about injustice all the time. Far fewer of us stop to ask what justice actually is. John Adams has spent years with that question, first reading the great books in hotel rooms between deals, then translating them into games and ...
Friendship Across the Political Divide: Lessons From William F. Buckley Jr. β DTH Episode 337 with Josh Cohen
William F. Buckley Jr. had strong opinions and never apologized for them. He also spent forty years as close friends with liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith, and decades more as a friend of Ira Glasser, longtime head of the ACLU. When a f...
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