Calling in Culture: Shifting from “Canceling” To Connection
Three common responses to oppressive comments or behaviors are: cancel, distance, or educate. Blocking, unfriending, unfollowing, calling out or cutting off someone feels like standing up for ourselves or our beliefs. In important relationships, we might stay silent but distant and less trusting. Or we might tell them how what they said or did hurt us or is wrong. We might share information, hoping they’ll learn to think another way—which rarely happens. What if we heard that oppressive comment as a call for help? What if we could offer a space to heal the hurt at the root of the comment? Let’s move beyond shaming, preaching, and teaching as we apply our core listening practice in ways that connect and transform.
“Treating people who make oppressive comments as ‘Re-emerging Allies’ helps us connect to their humanity, commit to their healing, and invites the possibility for them to shift. We are also those people.”
– Nanci E. Luna Jiménez
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