Talked with #[4]​ about this in Miami - it’s started with a realization that both our educations - one at a conservative Christian college and the other at a literally liberal, liberal arts school BOTH likely over emphasized Western classicism when defining / presenting “history.”

#[5]​ aptly pointed out that while people have divergent views - there are only clusters - not true opposites. The idea from there was, assuming cluster can be defined, using adjacency and intersectionality to challenge your own echo chamber.

Let’s say the user a very conservative Christian, their “mainstream media” feeds them certain culture war messaging about liberals/democrats, the LGBTQ community, Black Lives Matter etc. and the user does not consider themselves aligned with any of the aforementioned groups - but then they realize that there are devout Christians in ALL of these groups.

What are the things that they talk about? How do they view “the issue” whatever it may be. The user could filter into viewing conversations at the Christian+ intersection. This can be a way to explore / challenge assumptions by seeing how people how share one core identity / affiliation can arrive at completely different places on various issues - even when viewing them through the lens of that shared core identity.