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Preventing racism before it gets to the workplace

Fiona

How far do you agree with Chantale Phinda, law student at University of Exeter that influencing the attitudes of tomorrow’s workforce is far better than punishing bad behaviour when it comes to racism and misogyny?

 

https://www.cipd.co.uk/news-views/changing-work-views/future-work/thought-pieces/Preventing-racism-before-workplace#

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  • "Personally, I do not believe the perpetrators were racist, meaning they didn’t actually believe what they were saying or say them with the intent of degrading another race. The fact that they felt comfortable joking about such issues, even in a private setting, highlights a big problem. "

    If I had my way one of the things we would drop from our lexicon and our behavior is "banter" which seems to have become increasingly popular as a way of expressing and validating these sorts of opinions. The retort is typically "it's only a bit of banter" meaning - we didn't really mean any harm - it was just a bit of innocent fun. As social beings who want to belong and many of us are tempted to go along with this "banter" - rarely acknowledging the damage it does.
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  • "Personally, I do not believe the perpetrators were racist, meaning they didn’t actually believe what they were saying or say them with the intent of degrading another race. The fact that they felt comfortable joking about such issues, even in a private setting, highlights a big problem. "

    If I had my way one of the things we would drop from our lexicon and our behavior is "banter" which seems to have become increasingly popular as a way of expressing and validating these sorts of opinions. The retort is typically "it's only a bit of banter" meaning - we didn't really mean any harm - it was just a bit of innocent fun. As social beings who want to belong and many of us are tempted to go along with this "banter" - rarely acknowledging the damage it does.
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