The messaging wasn’t technically false; it was just misleading, while saying technically true things. I’m not sure why you’re using “lying” here.
I would guess you’d agree organisations can use deceptive messaging? I’m pretty sure communities can also do that, including with dynamics where a community is deceptive but all parts have some sort of deniability/intentionlessness.
I think it’d be sad to have to discuss the likelihood of specific people of being deceptive. It would be making their lives even worse. If people Google their names, they’re going to find this. And it’s not really going to help with the problem, so this is not what I want to focus on. I titled the post this way because the community acted deceptively, regardless of how deceptive it’s members were.
I’m saying what I think in the comments and in the post, while avoiding, to the possible extent, talking about my current views of specific people’s actions or revealing the messages/words sent/said to me in private by these people.
And I don’t at all understand why we both are exchanging comments focusing on the words (that I thought were pretty clear, that I ran just before publishing pass a bunch of people, including protest participants, who told me they agreed with what I wrote) instead of focusing on the problems raised in the post.
The messaging wasn’t technically false; it was just misleading, while saying technically true things. I’m not sure why you’re using “lying” here.
I would guess you’d agree organisations can use deceptive messaging? I’m pretty sure communities can also do that, including with dynamics where a community is deceptive but all parts have some sort of deniability/intentionlessness.
I think it’d be sad to have to discuss the likelihood of specific people of being deceptive. It would be making their lives even worse. If people Google their names, they’re going to find this. And it’s not really going to help with the problem, so this is not what I want to focus on. I titled the post this way because the community acted deceptively, regardless of how deceptive it’s members were.
I’m saying what I think in the comments and in the post, while avoiding, to the possible extent, talking about my current views of specific people’s actions or revealing the messages/words sent/said to me in private by these people.
And I don’t at all understand why we both are exchanging comments focusing on the words (that I thought were pretty clear, that I ran just before publishing pass a bunch of people, including protest participants, who told me they agreed with what I wrote) instead of focusing on the problems raised in the post.