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Respect doesn't happen in a vacuum. It's a characteristic of exchanges between people. While I haven't found it particularly helpful to ask (or demand) to be respected, it occurred to me that it might be powerful to commit to communicating in ways that the recipient would consider respectful—to adopt a standard where group members would make an effort to understand what style of communication would come across as respectful to their audience and then try to engage them in that way.
Even when you get it wrong, it's likely to land better if the other person knows you're trying, because the effort itself is evidence of caring.
Read the rest at Laird's Commentary on Community and Consensus
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