In my view, there’s a level of badness for being excluded from my friendship, and a level of badness for being excluded from my communities, and I think the 2nd one should be much stricter.
If I have a work buddy who is prone to making sexist jokes and off-colour comments, I would like them less, but I wouldn’t find cause to avoid hanging out 1 on 1 or avoid them in the corridors. But I would keep them away from my dancing community, because it sets a bad tone and makes the place less welcoming for everyone. Everybody you let into a community has an effect on the character of that community, I see
I think it’s completely fair for an intentional community or movement to have reasonable standards about who to include. I think EA has suffered from having incredibly low standards in the past, to the point where someone straight up admitted to being an authoritarian manipulative narcissist and was still welcomed in with open arms. Nobody has a democratic right to be in this movement!
In my view, there’s a level of badness for being excluded from my friendship, and a level of badness for being excluded from my communities, and I think the 2nd one should be much stricter.
If I have a work buddy who is prone to making sexist jokes and off-colour comments, I would like them less, but I wouldn’t find cause to avoid hanging out 1 on 1 or avoid them in the corridors. But I would keep them away from my dancing community, because it sets a bad tone and makes the place less welcoming for everyone. Everybody you let into a community has an effect on the character of that community, I see
I think it’s completely fair for an intentional community or movement to have reasonable standards about who to include. I think EA has suffered from having incredibly low standards in the past, to the point where someone straight up admitted to being an authoritarian manipulative narcissist and was still welcomed in with open arms. Nobody has a democratic right to be in this movement!
’Someone straight up admitted to being an authoritarian manipulative narcissist and was still welcomed in with open arms”.
Just to satisfy my curiosity about gossip,what are you referring to here?