We went to a workshop today about unlearning Racism. There's a small core group that shows up pretty regularly and then there's usually a few new faces each time. Today, there was a guy that showed up who really bogarted the conversation and was veering off topic and into some pretty… uh, IDK. "War isn't bad, we're just doing it wrong," sorts of points. And was pretty disrespectful of the efforts or suggestions by others.

I didn't know how to help keep him from destroying the conversation. I felt like confronting him and trying to, like, Win An Argument with him would just take up the whole time and derail entirely, so I wanted to de-escalate instead of escalate, but not responding at all put the burden on the rest of the group (mostly women) and felt bad. IDK. It was not great and I wish I had better tools to deal with that kind of situation.