I think one of the big challenges is that strategies
for coping with
incivility on a day-to-day basis are often at odds with broader strategies
to effect systemic change. Sometimes, the only way to get through a specific
situation with one's sanity and dignity intact involves a bit of appeasing
or lenience; but in the long run, appeasing and lenience make civility
issues more difficult to solve. I don't think there's an easy answer to this
tension, but I do think that talking about the various relevant experiences
we've had will be useful; so I'm glad this discussion is taking place.
And that's just it - we have to explore this through systemic change and
taking a broad look at everything and seeing what policies can be developed
and changed. I have learned to channel my "mad as hell" mantra into
"change
change change" and it'll take time, but it's the best tool and the best
weapon that I have (and the rest of us have!).
Being civil, having good manners and being nice to one another (wikilove
baby!) should not be a "bad thing" and it seems that Wikipedia in some
regards thinks it is. This isn't about censorship, it's about using the
manners one's parents and so forth taught them (or at least my parents did)
and being civil. What's so bad about that?
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Sarah
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