In a wokshop I attended the other day on the growing prevalence of the polerisation or hyperpartzan nature of public discourse a guy who self identified as gay spoke up and described how since the Brexit vote he was aware of an increased hostility. But, certainly in the context of the workshop he was working on the basis of “good faith” which meant that although vigilance about our language and attitudes need to remain in place we might also be cautious about “calling out” as in public deniciation of what might be inadvertent infringements of progressive norms. Instead he advocated what he called “call in culture”. In which when something is said that we find offensive or simply wrong we might have a policy of replacing the public call out with taking the individual to one side and letting them know how we feel.. I think this goes on anyway but giving it a name, “call in” seemed useful.
# distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
