https://contemporaryracism.org/764/breaking-the-silence-is-not-easy/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Mon, 19 May 2014 20:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/764/breaking-the-silence-is-not-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-260 Fri, 04 May 2012 04:28:59 +0000 http://www.professorwolfe.com/blog/?p=764#comment-260 Abbey, I think you approached the situation in the best way you could. I had a similar situation with my superior in the workplace instead it was a race related discussion. Unfortunately, sometimes you have to pick your battles. I feel like there’s no right or wrong way to deal with these situations, because they are extremely subjective. You have to consider your relationship to that person, their willingness to hear you out, and the consequences of speaking up. I also wonder if anything you could have said would have made her examine the way she speaks. Maybe approaching it in a group environment where you aren’t singling her out as being offensive might be more effective. I’m curious as to what happened afterwards. Did the office do anything to address the situation at hand?

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