Teachable Moments on the Power of Societal Oppression – Using three 2009 stories in the news (find links to each story at the end of this submission) During our workshop, Beyond Diversity 101 (BD101) we practice distinguishing between the personal (INDIVIDUAL), the GROUP/institutional and the SOCIETAL/systems. We encourage both seeing and naming what is happening and has happened on each of these three levels. The commitment to practice seeing and naming is terribly important if we are to ever heal as a people, as a society. Denial and confusion, the resistance to see and know - these are the fallback positions that protect and maintain systems of domination. For to acknowledge a breech between who we believe ourselves to be and what we actually do, to acknowledge such a breech might suggest that we turn our worlds upside down and do things differently. So, in any system of oppression there is a great investment in not seeing.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 01:06:56 +0000
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