Tami Pyfer
LOGAN — Cache Valley native and former education advisor to former Governor Herbert, Tami Pyfer, returned to KVNU’s For the People program last week.
She is a member of the team behind the Dignity Index, which is an eight-week pilot program with a ranking system on a dignity scale, the goal being to raise awareness on how people talk to each other, specifically in the political realm.
Pyfer said one of the things they wanted to do with this is to start a conversation.
“And I think we’ve done that, I think we’ve started a conversation and when you see people that really latch on to it, that are really motivated and touched by it, and when you see people that are defensive about it and skeptical, it’s all good, we’ve started a conversation.”
Pyfer said their goal is to take that conversation to the next level where they get people thinking.
“The incidents that are in the news right now with Nancy Pelosi’s husband really highlight the need for us to watch our language, because it’s that language of violence and demeaning and belittling and ‘we’re better than those people’. In fact one of the points on the dignity scale…when you get down into the contempt side – 3 or 2, at 2 it’s ‘those people are evil and a danger to everything we value, they’re going to ruin us if we let them, it’s us or them’”.
She said she thinks people simply don’t realize the extent to which language can lead to these violent acts. You can find out more about it at dignityindex.us
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