These findings suggest that encouraging white men to reflect on what happens to them on the job could make them better allies of their co-workers who are women or people of color.
I’m trying not to take the wrong lesson from this. I know we should be seeing that hardship helps build empathy. I should not be concluding that we ought to bully white men for the good of society.
Thanks for being allies, white guys who understand what it feels like to be mistreated. You didn’t deserve what happened to you but I’m glad you’re fighting with us to make things better.
Exactly right. I think the unsaid part here is that white guys are generally dismissing hardship and mistreatment in the workplace until it happens to them. Frankly, it shouldn’t require a personal experience for someone to care about another person being bullied or harassed in the workplace.
Empathy and allyship should not require shared suffering.
I’m trying not to take the wrong lesson from this. I know we should be seeing that hardship helps build empathy. I should not be concluding that we ought to bully white men for the good of society.
Thanks for being allies, white guys who understand what it feels like to be mistreated. You didn’t deserve what happened to you but I’m glad you’re fighting with us to make things better.
Exactly right. I think the unsaid part here is that white guys are generally dismissing hardship and mistreatment in the workplace until it happens to them. Frankly, it shouldn’t require a personal experience for someone to care about another person being bullied or harassed in the workplace.
Empathy and allyship should not require shared suffering.