The Biggest Lie About Consensus (You Believe It)

If every Indigenous person read this? We'd be much further ahead.

I sit in Indigenous coordination meetings before almost every negotiation.
We call them caucus meetings. Same story every time.

Someone says "we need consensus on our position."
Then they spend three hours trying to get everyone to agree on everything.

The problem is that they think consensus means unanimity.
Or that it's just the absence of voting.

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