"When people feel unsafe, there are usually only two reactions. One is total silence. The other is defensive anger. I have been in workplaces where 100% of the discourse was either one of these or the other. Because safety is so often at risk when people are angry about their differences, there's a kind of knee-jerk thinking that suggests we should never be angry or never display our difference. Both of these approaches are quite common. Both fail routinely, in different ways. "

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