Shift Happens

047 Stay in the Conversation


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David Abitol, a Web Designer and Digital Strategist based in Jerusalem, Israel, shares how a Twitter feud based on this very premise led to an improbable friendship with a member of the Westboro Baptist Church. In this very personal interview, David illustrates how an openness to others beliefs and the willingness to challenge others to consider a different point-of-view can lead us down unexpected paths and even towards mutual respect. In this uniquely controversial episode of Shift Happens, David shares how he interacts with people online whose beliefs fall on the opposite side of the spectrum, and how he uses facts to help transform their hate speech into something far more productive, and unlock social justice.

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Shift HappensBy Joe Mechlinski