Welcome to Talking Inclusively, a monthly series designed by PFLAG National's Straight for Equality program to create conversation about intersectionality, LGBTQ+ issues, inclusion and more! Each month we’ll offer an article on diverse topics and suggest a few questions that you can use to lead a discussion focused on how we can make space that is more welcoming for everyone.
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The Left Should Stop Calling People ‘Racist’ of Homophobic as a Knee-Jerk Response
Source: The Washington Post
Author: Steven Petrow
Questions for Discussion:
Note: This article is a follow-up to an earlier column on the topic of charged language. Before having your discussion, check out the first piece (“The Coded Language of the Alt-Right is Helping to Power Its Rise”) to provide an even broader view of the issues.
- Have any of the terms in this article – whether from the left or right – ever been applied to you? How did it make you feel? How did you respond? What happened?
- Do you think that the left and right are equally responsible for the damage created by this kind of dialogue?
- The final paragraph of the article finds author Steven Petrow asking how you can start taking greater responsibility for the way that we interact with each other. Identify a few ways that you think you can do this.
