Re:How to disagree with someone more powerful than you (2016)
by Supermancho on Saturday September 17, 2022 @09:50PM
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> If you are having to treat powerful people differently, you need to look hard at the place you are in and the kind of class divide it promotes. It's fucking 2022.
> The year is only an argument on 90s daytime talk shows.
I'm not sure why you think it's an argument. When someone makes a statement, it's not automatically an argument.
In this case, that statement is a call to action. Take note that decades have passed and the culture has changed, which was articulated in the previous sentence.
The year is only an argument on 90s daytime talk shows.
> If someone needs psychological safety before they are disagreed to, I say they need psychological help.
What if somebody needs safety safety, because the person they're disagreeing with is more powerful than they are? Any "psychological" safety you're seeing here is people trying to muster up enough bravery to take a real risk for the possibly dubious reward of being right.
I'm not even making any moral judgements here. There are plenty of contexts where if you're going to act out on your disagreements with me, I'd prefer to find somebody either more tactical or more pliable to take your place.