There have been a lot of questions since the election about how to respond to micro/macro-aggressions during tense or hostile situations. The Multicultural Leadership Council have compiled some helpful resources about bystander intervention:
- Speak Up: Responding to Everyday Bigotry is an extensive guide with useful scripts for everyday conversations and encounters with friends, family, co-workers, and strangers at social events, public businesses, etc. from the Southern Poverty Law Center
- Collection of intervention and de-escalation resources
- What now? Website: http://www.theworldisaterribleplace.com/ohcrap/
- Street harassment: a Bystander’s Guide – graphic
- The Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice is holding a bystander training: https://www.facebook.com/events/201283176991620/
- GEO produced a report on a number of meetings on bystander intervention
If you have been told by anyone that minorities are overreacting, or that harassment/hate crimes aren’t really a problem:
- The SPLC is monitoring anecdotal reports here: Update: More Than 400 Incidents of Hateful Harassment and Intimidation Since the Election
- Statistics from the FBI’s annual hate crimes report
AFT has also provided a detailed FAQ on academic freedom after the election.
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