“Conflict Is Not Abuse” Book Discussion | Green Apple Books & Music

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Tuesday, February 7th at 7:00pm as they welcome Author Sarah Schulman, reading from and discussing her book “Conflict is Not Abuse.”

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negative group relationships, Schulman illuminates the ways cliques, communities, families, and religious, racial, and national groups bond through the refusal to change their self-concept. She illustrates how Supremacy behavior and Traumatized behavior resemble each other, through a shared inability to tolerate difference.

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