This is good advice, but nowhere near simple to implement. Much of the public writing on group-identity topics does not include enough foundation agreement on models and assumptions for it to actually make sense. Most people (including your ingroup, if you apply the same standards) are just awful at explaining what they believe, let alone why they believe it.
Note: the contrapositive is perhaps one way to actually pursue this. “Don’t take your ingroup seriously”. You’re just as prone to unexamined assumptions and faulty logic as your counterpart in one of your outgroups. Identifying where your peers are simply not seeing things clearly can help you in finding the topics on which communication is hard and tends to cleave into social groups, rather than shared examination across diverse backgrounds.
This is good advice, but nowhere near simple to implement. Much of the public writing on group-identity topics does not include enough foundation agreement on models and assumptions for it to actually make sense. Most people (including your ingroup, if you apply the same standards) are just awful at explaining what they believe, let alone why they believe it.
Note: the contrapositive is perhaps one way to actually pursue this. “Don’t take your ingroup seriously”. You’re just as prone to unexamined assumptions and faulty logic as your counterpart in one of your outgroups. Identifying where your peers are simply not seeing things clearly can help you in finding the topics on which communication is hard and tends to cleave into social groups, rather than shared examination across diverse backgrounds.