Your suggestion to use counter narratives is brilliant, it makes a lot of sense to me.
A wise woman once told me that if I told my child "do not hit your sister", all the child would hear is "hit your sister". She said that a more effective statement would be "stop hitting your sister". This is a clumsy comparison but it is what springs to my mind and reinforces, for me, what you had to say about the counter narrative.
Repeating a lie to disprove it reinforces the lie before you even say a word about your opposition to the lie.
Thank you for your post, it is exactly what I needed to hear today. Keep up the good work!
Your suggestion to use counter narratives is brilliant, it makes a lot of sense to me.
A wise woman once told me that if I told my child "do not hit your sister", all the child would hear is "hit your sister". She said that a more effective statement would be "stop hitting your sister". This is a clumsy comparison but it is what springs to my mind and reinforces, for me, what you had to say about the counter narrative.
Repeating a lie to disprove it reinforces the lie before you even say a word about your opposition to the lie.
Thank you for your post, it is exactly what I needed to hear today. Keep up the good work!