A lot of this focuses on addressing what seem to be the criticisms the FK team find least convincing and relevant to their goals (e.g. infighting shouldn’t ever happen, FK must have been slighting Veganuary due to some larger movement-wide rifts). I know people are out there making those arguments, so I completely understand taking time to address them, but I think it would be useful to have more focus on the impact calculus that’s supposed to make all of that moot. I’d like to hear them engage on why this was expected to go well (and specifically to go better than a more audience-aligned approach), because that expectation is the only thing they use to justify both the anticipated and unanticipated negative results.
A lot of this focuses on addressing what seem to be the criticisms the FK team find least convincing and relevant to their goals (e.g. infighting shouldn’t ever happen, FK must have been slighting Veganuary due to some larger movement-wide rifts). I know people are out there making those arguments, so I completely understand taking time to address them, but I think it would be useful to have more focus on the impact calculus that’s supposed to make all of that moot. I’d like to hear them engage on why this was expected to go well (and specifically to go better than a more audience-aligned approach), because that expectation is the only thing they use to justify both the anticipated and unanticipated negative results.