Thank you Pete. For what it’s worth, I have been told informally that CEA does expect to respond publicly. As others have mentioned, I imagine there are several employees/counsel who need to sign off on any response, and there may be internal disagreement or differing perspectives.
More importantly, I have been told CEA intends to provide “additional context.” Personally, I am incredibly hopeful that any added context will be in the direction of meaningful reckoning, rather than attempts to soften various leadership decisions by bringing up vague points around “legal obstacles,” or “balancing various employee privacy concerns,” and so on and so forth. I think the time for vague hedging, obscuring, gestures at “legality,” and softening has well passed.
Edit: Thinking about this more, I understand why some disagree and think I should not set a preemptive frame. To be honest, this mostly came from a place of worry/fear that they would use the same excuses they spent the past year using with me to justify their inaction/dismissal of my concerns. I wasn’t expecting such a strong response, and while I sincerely appreciate all the comments and messages I’ve been receiving, I’ve also now received a lot of messages from CEA staff so am quite overwhelmed/on edge and struggling to process everything.
Thank you Pete. For what it’s worth, I have been told informally that CEA does expect to respond publicly. As others have mentioned, I imagine there are several employees/counsel who need to sign off on any response, and there may be internal disagreement or differing perspectives.
More importantly, I have been told CEA intends to provide “additional context.” Personally, I am incredibly hopeful that any added context will be in the direction of meaningful reckoning, rather than attempts to soften various leadership decisions by bringing up vague points around “legal obstacles,” or “balancing various employee privacy concerns,” and so on and so forth. I think the time for vague hedging, obscuring, gestures at “legality,” and softening has well passed.
Edit: Thinking about this more, I understand why some disagree and think I should not set a preemptive frame. To be honest, this mostly came from a place of worry/fear that they would use the same excuses they spent the past year using with me to justify their inaction/dismissal of my concerns. I wasn’t expecting such a strong response, and while I sincerely appreciate all the comments and messages I’ve been receiving, I’ve also now received a lot of messages from CEA staff so am quite overwhelmed/on edge and struggling to process everything.
I think it’s important that CEA is allowed to respond without a pre-emptive framing of how they might respond.
Given the response you’ve had so far, I understand the comfort and the concern.