“What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn…What it can’t do is sit in a room full of people who are trying—and failing—to make sense of something that maybe can’t be made sense of.

That’s the job of teaching. “

As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.