Shared humanity overcomes preconceived enemy divisions between strangers

Evidence

So I stopped. Instead, I turned the discussion to Michigan Wolverines and Detroit Lions football, our favorite MMA fighters, and the pandemic. When it was time to leave, the discomfort I had had was gone, and any preconceived notions of who John was—and wasn’t—were retrenched. A mix of admiration and pity colored my new perspective of John, coupled with the feeling that a person most Muslims would count as their foe would ultimately become my friend. He was a white man from a part of the city I associated with racism because of past personal experiences. However, the wages of war had washed away the menace of his whiteness, and the despair that descended on him when he returned from war—with little to return to—drove me toward places I otherwise avoided. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 190

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A sudden common spectacle can dissolve interpersonal conflict into ‘we’ experience; The ‘us’ experience means being objects together before alienating others. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1018; A unified human We-subject is impossible; conflict grounds being-for-others — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1041 (+6 more)