Interviewers must set aside reciprocal stereotypes to hear testimony

Evidence

In truth, I felt uncomfortable when I first sat down with him. He looked like somebody who would hate me on account of who I was, and what I looked like. Another disaffected white man who perhaps unleashed that disaffection on Muslims, Mexicans, or others he deemed un-American. But I wrestled with that discomfort as I sat there, across from him, committed to undoing my own stereotypes as he wrestled with his. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 184

Categorization

• SEED: The author models reciprocal stereotype-auditing as a method point — ‘committed to undoing my own stereotypes as he wrestled with his.’ That self-corrective posture could anchor an essay or craft note about bearing witness across presumed enemy lines.