diff --git a/content/note/difficultsubjects.md b/content/note/difficultsubjects.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38e0084 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/note/difficultsubjects.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ ++++ +title = "Violence and the fear of difficult subjects" +scribes = ["bojana.md"] +voices = ["ruth-johanne.md", "celine.md", "ingvild.md"] ++++ + +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 \ No newline at end of file