In my experience, there’s a pattern, in social attacks like this, where critics are persistently, consistently unwilling to restrain themselves to only making criticisms that are true, regardless of whether the true criticisms would have been enough. This is a big deal and should not be tolerated.
I didn’t make that claim in the grandparent comment, and I don’t know of any specific other deceptive statements in it. But, on consideration… yeah, there probably are. Most of the post is about internal details of FHI operations which I know little about and have no easy way to verify. The claim about the Apology is different in that it’s easy to check; it seems reasonable to expect that if the most-verifiable part contains an overreach, then the less-verifiable parts probably do too.
I agree that this is an unfair claim but the post wouldn’t lose much force without it
In my experience, there’s a pattern, in social attacks like this, where critics are persistently, consistently unwilling to restrain themselves to only making criticisms that are true, regardless of whether the true criticisms would have been enough. This is a big deal and should not be tolerated.
Are you claiming that there are other deceptive statements in this post?
I didn’t make that claim in the grandparent comment, and I don’t know of any specific other deceptive statements in it. But, on consideration… yeah, there probably are. Most of the post is about internal details of FHI operations which I know little about and have no easy way to verify. The claim about the Apology is different in that it’s easy to check; it seems reasonable to expect that if the most-verifiable part contains an overreach, then the less-verifiable parts probably do too.