Great Meeting Hack to Deal with Interrupting White Guys

[jesse_the_k]

I read the Democratic Socialists of America’s Northern Virginia branch’s meeting guidelines¹, thanks to a Metafilter discussion².

One thing I know is I'm good at running meetings. I’ve herded cats in many contexts, from true consensus to Roberts’ Rules. This brilliant idea stood out from dsa_nova’s suggestions:

Men talking over women is definitely not the way socialist feminism works. To counter ingrained patriarchal behavior, whenever a white male comrade interrupts a person of color or a white woman, everyone should raise their fist.

The goal is surrounding the interrupter by raised fists–not as a precursor to violence, but as a sign of solidarity.

What do you think? Would this be effective? Do you think it would backfire by enraging the white men so notified?

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1. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V2-YNCRW-Ya2tFzapwLMPMbqWAJZNw4qE40cIWqZti8/edit# ↩︎
2. https://www.metafilter.com/175173/The-socialists-are-coming-The-socialists-are-coming ↩︎

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Great point! Thanks.