Just for your information, as a non-binary person who was assigned female at birth (so definitely under-represented in EA), I would find it very upsetting if I knew you were trying to control which ideas and people I was exposed to.
I find speciesist attitudes morally offputting, but if you would keep events from me because some people there were speciesist, I’d consider you to be being a bad friend.
People are different. Some people consider what you’re suggesting to be helpful. I do not. I just want you to be aware about the differences in preferences there, and not think that all “underrepresented groups” would feel uncomfortable going to events with speakers they deeply disagree with.
I do also want to clarify that I have no desire to “control which ideas and people [anyone] is exposed to.” It is more so, “If I am recommending 3 organizations I think someone should connect with, are there benefits or risks tied to those recommendations.”
Oh, it sounds like you might be confused about the context I’m talking about this occurring in, and I’m not sure that explaining it more fully is on-topic enough for this post. I’m going to leave this thread here for now to not detract from the main conversation. But I’ll consider making a separate post about this and welcome feedback there.
I really appreciate you sharing your perspective on this. I think these are extremely hard calls, as evidenced by the polarity of the discussion on this post, and to some extent it feels like a lose-lose situation. I don’t think these decisions should be made in a vacuum and want other people’s input, which is one reason I’m flagging how this affects my work and the larger involvement funnels in EA.
Just for your information, as a non-binary person who was assigned female at birth (so definitely under-represented in EA), I would find it very upsetting if I knew you were trying to control which ideas and people I was exposed to.
I find speciesist attitudes morally offputting, but if you would keep events from me because some people there were speciesist, I’d consider you to be being a bad friend.
People are different. Some people consider what you’re suggesting to be helpful. I do not. I just want you to be aware about the differences in preferences there, and not think that all “underrepresented groups” would feel uncomfortable going to events with speakers they deeply disagree with.
I do also want to clarify that I have no desire to “control which ideas and people [anyone] is exposed to.” It is more so, “If I am recommending 3 organizations I think someone should connect with, are there benefits or risks tied to those recommendations.”
Do you not see how that’s controlling what ideas and people they are exposed to?
They can’t make the choice on their own. You’re keeping information from them because you’ve decided what’s good for them.
I think the more robustly good thing to do is find out what your friends’ preferences are and follow their expressed preferences.
Oh, it sounds like you might be confused about the context I’m talking about this occurring in, and I’m not sure that explaining it more fully is on-topic enough for this post. I’m going to leave this thread here for now to not detract from the main conversation. But I’ll consider making a separate post about this and welcome feedback there.
I really appreciate you sharing your perspective on this. I think these are extremely hard calls, as evidenced by the polarity of the discussion on this post, and to some extent it feels like a lose-lose situation. I don’t think these decisions should be made in a vacuum and want other people’s input, which is one reason I’m flagging how this affects my work and the larger involvement funnels in EA.