If I might provide at least my, minor, perspective: there is a big difference between "perspective" and "dissent" and some of your communiques.
People, particularly at the Foundation, are hurting a lot right now. And the tone of your messages has been a lot of: justifying actual people being in actual pain and misery. "Lila is making great changes!" "yes, but people are so hurt by the way it's been going on they're going on _MEDICAL LEAVE_" "Oh yes but I support her continuing work!"
"sorely under-represented perspective" or not, that kind of attitude is of course going to piss people off. And it may be that denying the value of peoples' experiences or dismissing their misery is not, in fact, what you mean to be communicating. But it is how it's coming out. For me, at least, that's why I find your emails frustrating.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Anthony Cole ahcoleecu@gmail.com wrote:
I've just received this from someone called billinghurst:
"Please stop this rebuttal of people's statements. Their opinions are as valuable, if not more valuable than yours as statements. Your name is appearing too often IMNSHO."
I thought I was bringing a sorely under-represented perspective to the ED discussion on this list and wasn't aware I'd said or done anything inappropriate here. I sincerely apologise if I have, but I'll need a bit more guidance if that's the case. I see a lot of rebutting going on here. I thought civil rebuttal was how rational argument progressed. But I've been wrong before.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: billinghurst billinghurstwiki@gmail.com Date: Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 4:04 AM Subject: Shared list To: ahcoleecu@gmail.com
Please stop this rebuttal of people's statements. Their opinions are as valuable, if not more valuable than yours as statements. Your name is appearing too often IMNSHO.
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