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Panther Anti-Racist Union (PARU), surveys
50–51 of Democrats/Republicans on views
Paris, Katie, 52, 52 of opposing party, 32, 40
Pew Research Center, 31, 32 on importance of free speech rights,
politicians 49
Black female, harassment of, 47 on level of civility in society, 56
decline in compromise among, 38–39 on percentage of Americans having
targeting of, 5, 45–46 no/few friends of opposite political
training programs to increase civility persuasion, 38
among, 53–56 on prevalence of belief in conspiracy
polls. See surveys theories, 35–36
Pouliot, Matt, 56 on prevalence of youth attending
presidential election, 2020, 32 BLM marches, 25
Public Religion Research Institute, 43 on support for political violence, by
party, 43
Rachel Maddow Show, The (TV on support of mask mandates, 19
program), 31 on viewership of cable news, 31
Rangel, Isadora, 46
Red Wine & Blue network, 52–53 Taibbi, Matt, 30–31, 33
restaurant workers, assaults against, Thomson, Henry, 55
18, 18–19 TikTok, 34
Rios, Alexis, 17 Trump, Donald, 32, 37, 46
Rogers, Wendy, 43–45 as rewarded for incivility, 40–41
Rose, Chris, 45 Twitter page of, 44
Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour Tucker Carlson Tonight (TV program),
in Company and Conversation 36
(Washington), 8 Twitter, 35, 41, 43, 44
Rush Limbaugh Show, The (talk radio
show), 28 University of Pennsylvania, 48
Up to Us, 56
school board meetings, 22 US Department of Justice, 24
efforts to de-escalate tensions at,
52–53 Voting Rights Act (1965), 11
Selepak, Andrew, 34
Sellers, Joshua, 55 Washington, George, 8
Sheridan, Brenda, 22, 23 Wasow, Omar, 17
Skitka, Linda, 25 Wilson, Joe, 39
social contract theory, 9
social media, 34–35 Youth Leadership Initiative, 56
link between cable news media and,
36 Zamalin, Alex, 14, 15
Stewart, Jon, 26, 27, 27 Zuckerberg, Mark, 34

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