Bridging Dictionary
On the one hand, I really like this new ‘Bridging Dictionary’ from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication. On the other hand, it kind of presupposes that people on each side of the political spectrum argue in good faith and are interested in the other side’s opinion.
To be honest, it feels like the kind of website we used to see a decade ago when we we’d started to see the impact of people getting their news via algorithm-based social media feeds.
The most interesting thing for me, given that I get the majority of my news from centrist and centre-left publications, is seeing which words tend to be used by, for example, Fox News. The equivalent here in the UK, I guess, would be GB News or the Daily Mail.
Welcome to the Bridging Dictionary, a dynamic prototype from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication that identifies how words common in American political discourse are used differently across the political divide. In addition to contrasting usage by the political left and right, the dictionary identifies some less polarizing–or bridging–alternatives.
Source: BridgingDictionary.org