1.0Equality, Diversity and Inclusion bloghttps://blogs.manchester.ac.uk/ediRachel Miller: On Active Bystandingrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="KTY27jlZUb"><a href="https://blogs.manchester.ac.uk/edi/2025/04/01/rachel-miller-on-active-bystanding/">Rachel Miller: On Active Bystanding</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://blogs.manchester.ac.uk/edi/2025/04/01/rachel-miller-on-active-bystanding/embed/#?secret=KTY27jlZUb" width="600" height="338" title="“Rachel Miller: On Active Bystanding” — Equality, Diversity and Inclusion blog" data-secret="KTY27jlZUb" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script>
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https://blogs.manchester.ac.uk/edi/wp-content/uploads/sites/437/2025/04/Rachel-Miller.png379273‘There are two kinds of evil people in this world. Those who do evil stuff, and those who see evil stuff being done and don’t try to stop it.’ This is what social outcast Janis Ian tells previously home-schooled Cady Heron to convince her to participate in a revenge plot against queen bee Regina George in the 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls. Whilst disagreeing with the practice of evil promoted by Janis in the film (!), this blog agrees that letting something bad happen is, itself, a form of harm, and so promotes the practice of active bystanding.