How to talk about the riots - blog post
Like millions of others around the UK, we’ve been horrified by the wave of far right riots that have swept the country this month, and by the racism, Islamophobia and violence that they’ve displayed. Only a small minority of people - around 7% - support the violence. But of those 7%, two thirds wrongly believe that most people in Britain support the violence too (see YouGov's recent survey).
So when we come across one of these people (or someone who disagrees with the violence but “can understand where they were coming from”) - whether it’s a family member, a neighbour, or the person in the queue in front of us at the post office - then it’s a chance to show that actually, that’s not what most of us think. But how?
The blog's author, Claire Brown, found herself in exactly this situation last week - and discovered that the techniques Larger Us explore in their climate conversations training work great in this context too.
