Mastodawn

I was a bit unprofessional today. I asked the host of a meeting to mute the zoom participants, then I addressed the two staff present in-person about their insistence on using a student’s dead name. One staffer used the excuse that the name is in the official paperwork. I called it an excuse and reminded them both that this is a human being. I might not be called back to interpret more of those meetings, but I couldn’t bear keep hearing them treat the student like that.

Bureaucracy is not an excuse for mistreating others.

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Dr Neenah Estrella-Luna

@adhdeanasl This is an issue that comes up in mediation training. What do you do when one of the parties is engaged in clearly discriminatory or abusive behavior? Some mediators interpret their ethical obligations as staying neutral and not intervening. I encourage my mentees that impartiality does not require neutrality in the face of oppressive or abusive behaviors. We have a social obligation to protect those who are marginalized or vulnerable.