The Blame Game

Description

The Blame Game will explore the blame dynamic which exacerbates discrimination and creates strong and damaging stereotypes. Participants will learn to see how blame affects people across a myriad of diversity dimensions from poverty, homelessness, level of education, size and appearance, and more.

Using the presenter’s own experiences as a person of size who has endured countless discriminatory and abusive incidents, participants will get a glimpse into how the blame bias perpetuates continued discrimination and hurts diversity goals.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explore external and internal blame biases, where they come from and how to stop them
2. Debunk blame as a valid reason to continue discrimination and learn to be an advocate for others
3. Examine how media exacerbates blame culture in America and how to combat it