The THRIL Technique
One way to examine and address your own internal rankism is to practice The Thril Technique.
The THRIL technique (threefold repetition of a word-initial letter) was created by Francisco Gomes de Matos, an applied peace linguist from Brazil. It is described in his article “Teaching Vocabulary for Peace Education,” published in the July-August 2002 of ESL Magazine, a magazine for teachers of English as a Second Language (Volume 5, No.4, pp.22-24).
Dr. Gomes de Matos provided these suggestions for the dignity movement:
AAA
Advise and Advocate, rather than Admonish
Avoid Aggressive Assertions
DDD
Defend Democracy with Determination
Daily Deed for Dignity
Disagree through Dignified Discourse
GGG
Generate Goodness and Generosity
HHH
Halt Harm and Humiliation
Harness Horizontalism for Humanization
NNN
Nourish and Nurture Negotiations
PPP
Prepare yourself as a Peace Patriot
VVV
Veto all forms of Verbal and Visual Violence (VVVV - four-fold repetition!)
Veto Verticalism in Vital events
RRR
Relate Rather than Rank
Repudiate and Replace Rankism
Hi
This is impressive. It is too easy to mimic the bad behaviour one may experience as a means to protect oneself from further hurt - this will help me (and others) guard against that possibility. These words are a better way. They are empowering and right thinking. I am currently going through a serious scapegoating situation and I hope to grasp the positive from this nightmare. The above has helped me as has Robert Fuller’s articles. Thank you.
Liz
Comment by Elizabeth Grant — February 26, 2008 @ 2:12 am
Accept Apologies Agreeably?
Comment by David King — May 28, 2008 @ 8:59 am