Get Along

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As a kid, I grew up believing that, if you were a Mets fan, you really couldn't like (let alone be friends with) a Yankees fan.
It was wonderful being with many, many fellow Gothamites at Citifield the other evening watching the Mets and the Yankees play. I put aside that I was sitting among Yankee fans -- arch enemies of a different era.
I don't want to make too much of it, but if I could sit among the enemy and enjoy them for who I know them to be, why can't people just get along?

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Cayce Crown

For me, thinking of other people as "the enemy" isn't productive. It is astonishing how much people seem to enjoy ridiculing and diminishing others, presidential candidates, baseball teams, celebrities, people on the street. I am as guilty as anyone. Working to change those neural pathways. Its not helping the planet to grow and heal. #semanticsmatter
Gideon Schein

As I said to a friend at the stadium we live in an increasingly intolerant world. When the chant of "Yankees s--ck rang out I thought immediately how incensed the Boston fan would be if he heard their war cry be co-opted by a team in Queens. I have always rooted for both the Mets and the Yankees until they played one another, now interleague and of course the World Ser
Steve Reisner

As an Islander fan I have had the same thought when sitting with Ranger fans - we just need to look past our friends lamentable choices and find common ground.
Paul Napolitano

Yes, people should be open minded and willing to listen respectfully to others viewpoints ... Like on the Gotham Politics ListServ!!! ;)
Victoria Drogin

Cayce, love what you said. I've read that people's favorite emotion is self-righteousness. That it's satisfying to have someone else be "wrong". Definitely not productive - or a happy way to live. Working on it too. . . . :)

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