"Now that we have demonstrated that we can all talk to each other and politics can be put aside, the best thing we can all do is engage in meaningful, factual conversations about how we can move other issues that have caused a divide in our communities," observed Sue Berkowitz, director of the S.C. Appleseed Legal Justice Center.
Keep to "I" statements and avoid trying to pin blame on this person for actions or things said––keep the conversation as factual as possible and focused on what it's done to your feelings.
David Clifford Burger, an attorney with Robinson Brog Leinwand Greene Genovese & Gluck representing the Abramson institute, said that "I can't in a telephone conversation expand on the factual allegations in the complaint".
And yet the piece gains immeasurably from being presented as factual, an account of scenes and conversations that really took place.
"Most of the conversations, however, have been very factual and businesslike".
"Her opinion was I was speaking from not a factual experience and I needed to bring statistics in a conversation like that".
Always have some interesting conversation you can bring up (be sure it is factual and "educational" i.e. unique...NOT gossip).
Surely the least we can demand is a fair and factual debate, to remind people like me that this is still a conversation worth having.
Which is why the conversations are so human - they're filled with factual errors, half-remembered statistics, and lots of "you know who I'm talking about - that guy... ..
