It shouldn’t matter who is doing the messaging, so one of my goals with this sequence is to make it matter less. There are unfortunately thousands of people who disagree with you. Setting the record straight isn’t about criticism but about solving the problem. As to different personal experiences, the experience can be valid while it’s attributed to the wrong cause.
For example, if someone is excluded in some activities in EA because they are not a utilitarian, that’s a problem but the problem doesn’t exist because EA is exclusively for utilitarians. That’s false on account of, among other facts, that EA for Christians and EA for Jews already exist as outreach projects. Whether someone is marginalized in EA on account of nothing but the fact they don’t share a utilitarian identity is, then, not a binary but a matter of degree. Efforts to be more inclusive of other worldviews may not have reached where someone is in EA, so those efforts should be extended to those places in EA too.
The exact details of the problems people experience in EA and relevant facts must be well-understood for those problems to be solved. The focus can remain on the experience as valid and to not disrespect those that have them.
It shouldn’t matter who is doing the messaging, so one of my goals with this sequence is to make it matter less. There are unfortunately thousands of people who disagree with you. Setting the record straight isn’t about criticism but about solving the problem. As to different personal experiences, the experience can be valid while it’s attributed to the wrong cause.
For example, if someone is excluded in some activities in EA because they are not a utilitarian, that’s a problem but the problem doesn’t exist because EA is exclusively for utilitarians. That’s false on account of, among other facts, that EA for Christians and EA for Jews already exist as outreach projects. Whether someone is marginalized in EA on account of nothing but the fact they don’t share a utilitarian identity is, then, not a binary but a matter of degree. Efforts to be more inclusive of other worldviews may not have reached where someone is in EA, so those efforts should be extended to those places in EA too.
The exact details of the problems people experience in EA and relevant facts must be well-understood for those problems to be solved. The focus can remain on the experience as valid and to not disrespect those that have them.