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• develop your emotional intelligence so you can tell when you are hiding your emotions with the excuse that you are being "rational;"
• be transparent about #power, so that everyone understands who makes the final decision and/or how the final decision is made before you dive into the conflict.

via Tema #Okun https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/comfort--fear-of-conflict.html

#entitlement #bias #whiteSupremacy #whiteness #racism #coloniality #meritocracy #antiRacism #alphabetMafia #rightToComfort #conflict #education #learning

COMFORT & FEAR OF CONFLICT

This page explores our cultural assumption  that I or we (or the ones in formal and informal power) have a right to comfort, which means we cannot tolerate conflict, particularly open conflict. This...

WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE
Once you see it

You can’t unsee the “right to comfort.”

Inani Ludibrio
Once you learn about #RightToComfort, jt becomes a lot more ubiquitous.
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• labeling emotion as "#irrational" or anti-intellectual or inferior, which means failing to recognize the importance of emotional intelligence;
• pretending or insisting that our point of view is grounded in the "#rational" or the intellectual when we are in fact masking our emotions with what appear to be rational or intellectual arguments.

via Tema #Okun https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/comfort--fear-of-conflict.html #entitlement #bias #whiteSupremacy #whiteness #racism #coloniality #conflict #antiRacism #rightToComfort
COMFORT & FEAR OF CONFLICT

This page explores our cultural assumption  that I or we (or the ones in formal and informal power) have a right to comfort, which means we cannot tolerate conflict, particularly open conflict. This...

WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE
Some #twittermigration #firstimpressions are that the birb app gave a lot of us with privilege a false sense of security around #socialmedia use, and here at fedi, that sense of security is stripped away in some really good ways. I've also noticed how white this space primarily is, and wonder how the tendencies of white culture towards the #RightToComfort and #ConflictAversion will shape how instances do/don't interact with each other, and whose #PsychologicalSafety gets prioritized when conflicts arise