# Professor Jonathan Haidt explains how different political views inform how people interpret the shooting in Orlando

1 Faculty News June 13, 2016 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/us/politics/shooting-reaction.html) -- "'The left is very worried about homophobia but it’s also very worried about Islamophobia, so there is going to be some real cognitive dissonance on the left as people talking about a Muslim killing many gay people,' said [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), a social psychologist and professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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