How do you get white men at your org to shut the fuck up and make space for other people?
How do you get white men at your org to shut the fuck up and make space for other people?
I've had a few events so far where the discussion/feedback part had 1-2 white guys doing longgggg monologues about something unrelated to the main topic. Last time had some stoner guy ranting about the confusing service at airports here (the event was about Gaza). Before that it was some boomer guy trying to explain Madonna to the non-white teens in our group (the event was about trans rights). Sometimes it's just two white guys monologuing back and forth. It's super counter productive and cringe.
I'm just thinking of a hard rule. Like "if you're a white guy, you're welcome, but please try to listen more and keep unrelated monologues to a minimum."
For the record, I am a white dude.
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I was in an organization previously that had different hand signals for the audience to give a speaker if they were droning on too long. You'd put your arm across the top of your head if they were going on a tangent and raise an arm with a limp hand if they were beating a dead horse.