From the course: Communicating about Culturally Sensitive Issues
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Combating gaslighting
From the course: Communicating about Culturally Sensitive Issues
Combating gaslighting
- Did you know that there are times when you as a well-meaning person may unintentionally gaslight your colleagues of a different background? There's a simple recipe for it. Confirmation bias plus toxic positivity equals gaslighting. Gaslighting is the act of undermining another person's reality by denying the facts, the environment around them, or their feelings. Here's an example of how well-meaning people may unintentionally gaslight their colleagues. One of my friends confided in me that: Whenever a colleague of a different background talks about a microaggression, I noticed that I have a tendency to just say, "Oh, I'm sure the other person didn't mean it that way." I've seen a lot of my other colleagues do the same thing. It's like we're just trying to justify what happened and explain it away by either saying what happened was unintentional or by minimizing it by saying it wasn't that bad. Why do we do that?…
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