Questioning is ok - we might indeed need to introduce some oversight, but to be honest, I doubt this would solve the trust issue as long as some people demand full transparency where there can never be full transparency.
Speculating and accusing victims of being the actual perpetrators, believing the perpetrators more than the victims, perpetrators depicting themselves as the victims, is a sad default behaviour in our community. This needs to change. Seriously.
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 08:17, Peter Southwood peter.southwood@telkomsa.net wrote:
How can we BE safe in the movement if we cannot question the decisions of T&S? (when they appear questionable and unsafe) Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l Sent: Friday, June 21, 2019 7:57 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Some goodbye to all
First of all I don’t know the context of this conversation. I know that I personnally find that the actions of Trust& Safety very valuable and wise. I totally support and trust their judgement.
I am tired of seing their work criticized, and do not appreciate official chapter representants and employees publicly supporting alleged offenders, showing no aknowledgement of the fact that this is very toxic for alleged victims, and does not help to change attitude towards issues of harrassment.
How can we feel safe in the movement if the decisions of T&S are questionned by official members of our movement?
Nattes à chat
Le 21 juin 2019 à 01:04, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com a écrit :
It is extremely disappointing, and *extremely typical* of the Wikimedia movement, to see an entire thread like this dedicated to supporting
someone
who Trust & Safety has found to have acted in such a way that they had
to
intervene. It is even more disappointing to see a person who was
affected
by his actions told "this is not your story" and "it may help you when
you
grow some sensitivity and respect this experience, the feelings of others."
If you're wondering why women leave the Wikimedia movement, and why Wikimedia has such a bad harassment problem in general, just reflect on this thread.
Thank you, Molly, for expressing what I was just trying to summon the energy to write.
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