What are Obstacles to Accountability?

[@maryanngallagher7490]

What am I accountable for and who am I accountable to is a good, tough question. One path to empowerment, in my experience, is making myself accountable.

[@neskebeks]

So clear. So well articulated.

[@louomat5501]

Wonderful. So, so inspiring to hear these generous and hopeful voices.

[@theveggievoyager3547]

Hello friends - thank you for this great video. It seems the subtitles/closed captioning is off. Is it possible to fix that to make this video more accessible? Thank you!

[@GingerSailor1]

Works now - March 2021!

[@robsteel4329]

these videos are incredible. thank you.

[@mikerenell1719]

What cultures have accountability built in? What cultures do that work

[@lilririah]

Also, for future things, could we encourage that "judeo-christian" not be a term thag be used? It's very antisemitic & Islamophobic. It's a term that was born out of Christian Nationalism. Is there a way that this can be corrected &/ addressed for this video, so that the use of this term in the video not be encouraging of it's use?

[@lilririah]

@Laure Vincent-Allard, if you mean Abrahamic, then there's saying Abrahamic However, Judeo-Christian, as mentioned before, is a Christian Nationalist concept. That isn't erasure, that is bringing to light how the terms we use may come from places that we may not have previously been aware of.

[@ellie1248]

How can you "make" someone be accountable for their harmful words and behaviour if they lack empathy and gaslight? Is this a lose lose situation?

[@KM-pm6qe]

You can’t make them. I think what they’re doing is facilitating harm doers choosing to. There are those who will not choose accountability even if supported, but I don’t think we can necessarily know who will and who won’t if we don’t offer the opportunity. Manipulation is a risk, but I imagine good facilitators would be highly trained experts in boundaries. Not trying has a cost too.

[@deborabiate4238]

If is justice is prevalent to us there is obvious of someone to b the call the culprit

[@Gog3453]

But what about racism

[@tjtube65]

interesting how there are no straight men in this video.

[@awlordy]

Straight men need practice with it. Esteban broke it down in a way that has a male lens. How can you help straight men get to a point where they could contribute to this?

[@joshshelton7236]

It's been my experience in life, that everyone could use help being more accountable, not just straight men.

[@edwardsmith5066]

it seems to me that this idea of Accountability assumes that the person who has done the "harm" cares what you think or how you feel. do you really think that your rapist will... come on. this philosophy is only viable when dealing with interpersonal conflict of the lowest order... hey, how come you ate my sandwich? oh I'm here for you and not caretake my shame (huh?!)

[@april_showers97]

You’re right. Part of what they’re saying I think is that mainstream culture doesn’t provide the basic skills to deal with even those most mundane everyday examples of interpersonal conflict. So that’s a place to start, and then we can build a mass culture of accountability & consent to work up to the big stuff.

[@TheSpellingPolice]

This video lacked clarity. Only Leah provided some measure of this. Proliferating conversations about accountability with references to punishment, vengeance, and threats is fucking gaslighting.

[@robsteel4329]

these videos are incredible. thank you.