Bystander intervention is about the avoidance of violence rather than the real reduction of it; about limited “education” that maintains the status quo rather than radical education that disrupts it; about discrete momentary interventions, rather than committed efforts toward systemic accountability, justice, and substantive support. People with power can get behind bystander intervention because, in its dominant articulation, it doesn’t threaten how power itself is distributed.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 03:12:55 +0000