I think this, from @endonend, is absolutely spot on:
What I think we need is more humanity. More sharing of our stories and life experiences. It’s how we come to appreciate people we don’t know and that may not look like or live like us. It’s easy to be baited into hatred of the faceless other, but a human being with a story we can relate to and empathize with? Much harder. It’s exactly why fascists focus on demonizing and dehumanizing people.