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Sarah Schulman Quotes

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“At many levels of human interaction there is the opportunity to conflate discomfort with a threat, to mistake internal anxiety for exterior danger, and in turn to escalate rather than resolve.”
— Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
Tagged: Violence, Conflict, Why people are such dicks, Anxiety, Victimhood
“He looked at a normative, everyday confict, and responded with extreme cruelty. He looked at the regular, even banal, expression of difference and saw a threat.”
— Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
Tagged: Ray Rice, Violence, Conflict, Abuse, Why people are such dicks
“I now am able to ask you to read this book the way you would watch a play: not to emerge saying, "The play is right!" but rather to observe that the play reveals human nuance, contradiction, limitation, joy, connection, and the tragedy of separation.”
— Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
Tagged: Conflict, dialogue, Stories, Books, Plays
“The real question is: why would a person rather have an enemy than a conversation? Why would they rather see themselves as harassed and transgressed instead of having a conversation that would reveal them as an equal participant in creating conflict? There should be a relief in realizing one is not being persecuted, but actually, in the way we have misconstrued these responsibilities, sadly the relief is in confirming that one has been 'victimized'. It comes with the relieving abdication of responsibility.”
— Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
Tagged: dialogue, The silent treatment, Conversation, Victims
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