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protest but we need more and bigger with longer planning and very clear demands and a great deal of very unglamourous behind the scenes organisation imagine beginning with a single day nationwid e general strike school closings and people on the street in huge numbers more than 12 million with say 1 5 million in dc at least half a million in each of the ten largest cities and tens or hundreds of thousands in smaller cities and towns across the country followed by two weeks of massive and peaceful demonstrations and or vigils and or withdrawal of services or money and or perhaps more specific and regionally focused actions is this possible yes many unions are ready many congregations of many creeds are ready many administrations at city county and state level are ready many local and regional law enforcement agencies are reevaluating their cooperation with federal enforcers community organisers are ready there are more and more people out there who have recent experience of protest demonstration and vigil they are connected formally and informally ordinary americans are more than ready once we see it begin we will join there are easily 12 million of us negativity bias stats and stories i promised to touch on those interesting conversations we had in london and this is where it gets even more hopeful to understand why let s first consider something i ve talked about often negativity bias 4 people pay more attention to the negative than the positive it s an evolutionary trait humans are prey animals in survival terms it s more cost effective to focus on a sound that could be a predator than on a laugh as a result we are more attuned to and tend to overweight the importance of the negative than the positive we can look to the evidence of our own everyday experience anyone with even a passing familiarity with social media understands that bad news spreads faster and further than good news negative disinformation moves even faster countless studies back this up all over the world if it bleeds it leads this is important i want you to understand and believe it in the context of information and or news whether gossip anecdata mainstream media social media tabloids podcasts newsletters or government announcements negativity bias can lead to a distorted perception of reality this distortion can be extreme normally reasonable people can have a seriously skewed understanding of the world around them there are reams of data to back this up but rather than hammering at you with tables and statistics and links let me tell you a story i used to teach women s self defence for a living my students were women and girls and a handful of men of all ages abilities colours creeds and socio economic backgrounds around the second session when i started showing women how to apply the strikes i taught in the first session how to seriously hurt their attacker they baulked why because they said fighting back would just make it worse make their would be rapist rape and sexual torture is what most women fear angry and more like to hurt them everything they knew about the world told them that fighting back would do no good all you had to do was read the newspaper watch the news listen to the radio to learn that this was before the internet i would sit them down and ask what do you think the odds are of a woman fighting off a rapist someone might venture five percent no i d say if the attacker is unarmed data show that 72 of the time if a woman fights back she will avoid rape if she fights back against an attacker armed with a knife her chances are 58 against a gun 51 even if a would be rapist is armed with a gun and the woman he has targeted is unarmed if she fights back the odds of her avoiding rape are greater than even the odds of her being less badly hurt are also better if she fights back than if she doesn t those stats were from a 1985 study ask any woman a london inquiry into rape and sexual assault ruth e hall bristol falling wall press 1985 while writing always published 2007 i went to the department of justice website to check their statistics the numbers held up looking at what info i can find now and the internet has got so bad that it s difficult to find clear answers it seems that women s odds have not got worse so why do women believe fighting back is useless because the media tells them so media mainstream and social reports completed rapes the bloodier and more brutal the better far more often than attempted rapes while in real life women have an almost 3 1 chance of beating off a would be rapist the media publicises 13 completed rapes for every attempted but uncompleted rape why because bad news garners clicks bad news sells ads when it comes to gender violence media negativity bias is 39 1 that is a seriously skewed version of reality that s what we re up against that s why it s easy to read bad news and believe the world is irretrievably broken saving the best for last right now there is a lot of bad news to notice in the us we are hit daily with everything from the disassembly of public health and the cancellation of research programmes to federal agents executing citizens in the streets in the uk we talked to people in positions of formal and informal responsibility at the national community or diocesan level who are worried by the signs of hatred visibly rising in their spheres of interest racist graffiti street violence social media attacks again and again we brought up this notion of 3 5 and change it excited everyone it is exciting but then one woman kelley was talking to suddenly stopped and said i m paraphrasing a second hand report oh all that hatred out there that feels so overwhelming like there s nothing we can do because the whole world hates us what if it s only 3 5 who are full of hate and not the whole world when kelley told me this later that night i said yes and oh i wish i d been part of that conversation because i would have pointed out that when you factor in the cognitive bias towards the negative it s probable that the level of real hatred the kind of hatred that leads to burning synagogues spitting on immigrants attacking transfolk or to marching in the street to counter protest nonviolent marches for change calling your representative to vote for dehumanising legislation against transgirls in sports or directly funding hate groups is not just small but tiny think about it think about the numbers of people who show up for anti abortion vigils or white power marches or transphobic campaigns try to remember how many homophobes showed up at the last pride event minuscule comparatively speaking insignificant when weighed against those of us who protest hatred and cruelty if it takes only 3 5 of a population to change the direction of a nation if the hatred we feel is out there isn t quite as widespread as we think and if you factor in the negativity bias at a ratio of 39 1 well even if the bias was wrong by an order of magnitude it s still a heartening answer change is possible more possible than we might think i don t know what will force the growing dissent against the current administration s agenda into full flower but i have no doubt it s coming and when it does i have no doubt it will succeed there are so very many more of us than them many thanks to mary brandt whose wellnessrounds org post brought chenoweth to my attention and helped crystallise what i d been fumbling towards for a while those who want to follow the evolution of chenoweth s thinking might want to download this pdf thanks jennifer ︎ i ll be using population and americans interchangeably to refer to those who live in this country whether they re citizens or not ︎ lowest estimate from pew highest from kaiser family foundation these are self reported numbers rather than estimates from photos and professional crowd counters ︎ i usually talk about it in terms of misery lit and the perception that high art has to be depressing ︎ share this email a link to 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