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When emotional responses to racism get pathologized

My supervisor told me I was 'too emotional' when I objected to a joke about lynching.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The institutional gaslighting that frames appropriate responses to harm as professional inadequacy.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Policing across cultures?”

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