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Peter Kisner ≈

@futurebird @jduckles
Not sure where they got the idea for this specific exercise, but what they came up with consisted of two parts:

1) Break out group members were required to share all the slurs they could think of regarding each other.

2) Then they would discuss their feelings about these words.

Already this sounds like a possibility recipe for things to go badly (as some staff warned the organizers). But they went ahead with it anyway and it gets worse:
2/x

18 Jul 2023 at 0:59 | Wall-to-wall | Open on dice.camp
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myrmepropagandist

@PTR_K @jduckles

"were required to share all the slurs they could think of regarding each other"

WAT

18 Jul 2023 at 1:00 | Open on sauropods.win
Peter Kisner ≈

@futurebird @jduckles
From a lot of second hand exposure, I get the impression there is (or at least used to be, before so many college closings) a lot of "rise to your level of incompetence" in college admin.

It's equally possible they came up with this idea on their own, or latched onto some badly designed training material, or misinterpreted and mis-applied some better training material. But refusal to listen to objections or concerns seemed pretty standard.

18 Jul 2023 at 1:17 | Open on dice.camp
myrmepropagandist

@PTR_K @jduckles

"But refusal to listen to objections or concerns seemed pretty standard."

So they sucked at the thing they were ostensibly trying to teach basically.

18 Jul 2023 at 1:18 | Open on sauropods.win
Peter Kisner ≈

@futurebird @jduckles
This training was sandwiched between several other types of training for the day. And the day was behind schedule.

So after part 1 of this training, the organizers decided there was no time for part 2. People who had just been insulted or coerced into insulting others were left to sort things out for themselves.

Staff who participated ended up furious with each other (for using slurs) and with the administrators who organized the thing.
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@futurebird @jduckles
This training was sandwiched between several other types of training for the day. And the day was behind schedule.

So after part 1 of this training, the organizers decided there was no time for part 2. People who had just been insulted or coerced into insulting others were left to sort things out for themselves.

18 Jul 2023 at 1:04 | Open on dice.camp
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