![]() ![]() You can have paralysis, you can become silence, you can be defensive, you can be confrontational, you can discuss or you can strategize and organize for social justice. When you hear someone say one of these things, it triggers a reaction within us and it is important to understand our way of responding. How do you respond in a conversation or in a dialogue when somebody says that women are inferior demand, or that Mexicans are drug dealers, or what kind of a name is that? Or Asians are better in math, or homosexuality is an illness. ![]() Some are more conducive to dialogue than others, but some makes so problematically that they become like a trigger, and a trigger is something when someone says something that makes us feel attacked or threatened as members of our group. So which one of these are you? Are you a shark? Are you a turtle? Are you a teddy bear? What about a fox? Or an owl? When you are sitting with a group of people and you are letting your communications flow, are you acting like a shark or are you an owl? When people have very different communications and conflict styles and they do not mix, there are advantages and disadvantages of each one. We have many different styles of communication and conflict. Community Organizing for Social Justice Teach-Out Teach-Out Transcript
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