Raising Up, Instead Of Trampling Down

Lefties like to trample on others, though.  It's who they are, it's what they do.  Haidt is an optimist:

Heterodox Academy has created an educational app called OpenMind to help students learn virtues like intellectual humility and empathy so that they can speak to one another across the divide. So far it has been used in over 100 classrooms.

As encouraging as these initiatives are, there’s a more fundamental shift that needs to take place—a rethinking of identity politics. Rather than promoting a “common-enemy identity politics” that admonishes white people and others with “privilege,” Mr. Haidt said Friday, professors and administrators should embrace a “common-humanity identity politics.” Isn’t that what liberal education is all about?

You don't build unity by telling everyone how they're different, and you certainly don't build unity by pitting one group against another. You build it by playing up commonalities.

Despite what they'll tell you, the left isn't trying to build unity. It's fairly obvious.  It's easier, and perhaps more fun, to rip people apart than to build unity.  That's why Haidt's hope above is pie-in-the-sky.