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title = "Violence and the fear of difficult subjects"
scribes = ["bojana.md"]
voices = ["ruth-johanne.md", "celine.md", "ingvild.md"]
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Someone told me about the talk I didn’t attend: Lina’s talk, that one opinion was had that speaking about violence begets violence

I love that you started talking about this – it was one of the most memorable for me this week

In my judgment of the confusion about Lina’s approach to violence, what was memorable was the fear in the room. (“Can I trust the path of thought she is leaning on?”) . Interesting that it expanded the language and it pokaed at our sense of comraderie.

The fear of touching upon certain subjects was in the reactions she received upon her talk

I appreciated her attempts to stir the conversation on sensitive topics

Denial of violence is also a kind of violence.

The cancel-culture – I can sympathize with to a certain extent (when it put an end to abuse of power) – but there is violence about committing one mistake that can take you out of the public circuit

In the group conversation, B. mentioned inability to form alliances across differences, I remembered conversations with my right-wing friends, where I tell them "this is a lunacy what this politician is doing", my friends agree, but they also say "but they are also doing all this for that…"

The right wing is more of a messy unity

The right wing is less ambitious, relies on less theory and segmentation