Say Something

~ Clarissa

I’ve mentioned the plan to dedicate the next issue of our professional journal to George Floyd to a few people, and they tend to respond in a polemical tone, “Well, why didn’t you say something?”

Obviously, I said something. Is it humanly possible to know me and suspect that I didn’t? There won’t be a George Floyd issue precisely because I said something and got enough people to support my position.

I don’t respect the approach of bitching about things and never doing anything to oppose them. I’ve been speaking out for as long as I’ve seen stuff to speak out about. Lack of speaking out has never been my problem.

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  4. Having known someone who did “say something” with quite negative consequences, would you please share more about How and What you said? Thanks.

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    1. I said pretty much what I did here. George Floyd has nothing to do with the languages, we are all unqualified to write on the subject, we should choose a topic that’s more relevant to people across the discipline and not a tiny segment of people in contemporary US culture.

      I’m lucky in that I have Hispanic colleagues on the board who responds well to the “this is too American” arguments.

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