zhiviNov 30, 2022

Its been one of those days. How are u doing? I wanted to share something I read today. What do you think? Which will you try to incorporate? Check the post for suggestions.

How to Talk About Diversity & Inclusion With People Who Disagree

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How to Talk About Diversity & Inclusion With People Who Disagree

Ask them to define terms and help you to understand. Communication often fails when participants don’t agree to the definitions of certain terms and end up talking past one another. If you can agree on certain terms at the start of the conversation, you’ve already accomplished common ground and the communication may be more respectful and effective.

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Show threadtoolbear#🪧Dec 2, 2022
@zhivi
This also helps reveal bad-faith participants. Distinguishing them from the well-intenioned but ill-informed is a challenge, especially in my tech industry & tech bros actively making a game of closet fascism.
I realized a former coworker was feeding me subtle neo-fascist rhetoric, including portraying democracy as a failed, claiming U.S. D's are equally bad as R's, etc.. As I drilled in on a common understanding it became increasingly likely that my suspicions were valid.
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@toolbear glad you realized this. We have to be aware of the pretenders. As the song says, smiling faces lie sometimes and they don't tell the truth.
Dec 2, 2022 at 8:52amWeb