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White fragility in the workplace

jhmd2000 said:
Sorry about math. I hope it doesn't hurt your sincerely held personal beliefs and other feelings.
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Ehh trolls gonna troll. I enjoy having engaging personal conversations with people with whom I vehemently disagree when they aren't disingenuous.
 
TownieDeac said:
Ehh trolls gonna troll. I enjoy having engaging personal conversations with people with whom I vehemently disagree when they aren't disingenuous.
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Name-calling and questioning sincerity. It's the place you go when data and math stopped being your friends. Don't like someone's argument or the data they cite to support it? Call them a name! Epistemic for the People.
 
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jhmd2000 said:
Name-calling and questioning sincerity. It's the place you go when data and math stopped being your friends. Don't like someone's argument or the data they cite to support it? Call them a name! Epistemic for the People.
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Except, once more, the data you site has absolutely nothing to do with this discussion.
 
POC: Please don't touch my hair.
JHMD: Please don't have children out of wedlock.
POC: ...
 
TownieDeac said:
POC: Please don't touch my hair.
JHMD: Please don't have children out of wedlock.
POC: ...
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POC: Well, there isn't enough food in the fridge and my children's failing school doesn't have enough parent volunteers to have a PTA this year.
Townie: But did anyone touch your hair today?
 
This thread isn't about hunger or the PTA, but you knew that. Once presented with level-headed responses on the issue and tangible ways to improve a small part of life for others, you decided it was better to flip through your four-item Rolodex and find the "Black" card and copy-and-paste. The alternative -- acknowledging someone else's experience and trying to operate from a position of empathy -- wasn't in your arsenal, it appears. Find one post on here or one person who believes this is a silver bullet solution to anything other than what it sets out to address.

This isn't moving the goal posts, this is switching the entire sport.
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
This thread isn't about hunger or the PTA, but you knew that. Once presented with level-headed responses on the issue and tangible ways to improve a small part of life for others, you decided it was better to flip through your four-item Rolodex and find the "Black" card and copy-and-paste. The alternative -- acknowledging someone else's experience and trying to operate from a position of empathy -- wasn't in your arsenal, it appears. Find one post on here or one person who believes this is a silver bullet solution to anything other than what it sets out to address.

This isn't moving the goal posts, this is switching the entire sport.
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The always curious but omnipresent "You refuse to refuse to talk about the things that are causing epidemic problems...you must not care as much of those of us who do refuse to talk about them" charge. A tradition truly unlike any other.
 
jhmd2000 said:
POC: Well, there isn't enough food in the fridge and my children's failing school doesn't have enough parent volunteers to have a PTA this year.
Townie: But did anyone touch your hair today?
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once again, according to republicans it's ridiculous to be upset about unwanted touching of your personage
 
jhmd2000 said:
The always curious but omnipresent "You refuse to refuse to talk about the things that are causing epidemic problems...you must not care as much of those of us who do refuse to talk about them" charge. A tradition truly unlike any other.
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not even close
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
not even close
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What you call a "failure to empathize" might also be a "failure to settle for an unacceptable outcome." If you find the epidemic problems and their manifestly limiting consequences acceptable, just say so.
 
jhmd2000 said:
POC: Well, there isn't enough food in the fridge and my children's failing school doesn't have enough parent volunteers to have a PTA this year.
Townie: But did anyone touch your hair today?
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woof
 
jhmd2000 said:
What you call a "failure to empathize" might also be a "failure to settle for an unacceptable outcome." If you find the epidemic problems and their manifestly limiting consequences acceptable, just say so.
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I'm talking about the stuff in the video, empathizing with being a minority in a white dominant culture.

Keep trying to change the discussion though.
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
I'm talking about the stuff in the video, empathizing with being a minority in a white dominant culture.

Keep trying to change the discussion though.
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Do you think a stable household, completed education and career would help with that, or no?
 
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