Silence in the face of cruelty or misinformation communicates that this kind of conversation is normal and acceptable. If you don’t call out a racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory comment, you are silently accepting it. The more silence, the more the speaker feels that this speech is acceptable. The more …
Propaganda When overstatements and exaggerations run rampant in social settings, in social media, and in the press, it begins to sound like …
A Truth Sandwich is an attempt to state the truth, call out a lie (without repeating it), then repeat the truth again. …
I am adding the Truth Sandwich to the menu of my verbal self-defense classes. It solves a problem that we all have: …
Generally, we think of hate as something said in anger. How do you confront it when it is said as a simple …