this is the statement that felt like an accusation of lying (not an accusation of a history of lying), and I think we have arrived at the reconciliation that doesn’t involve lying: broad strokes were pragmatically needed in order to sufficiently reduce the priority areas that were causing issues. I can’t know all our grantees, and my estimation is I can’t divorce myself from responsibility for them, reputationally or otherwise.
I do think the top-level post could have done a better job at communicating the more blacklist nature of this new policy, but I greatly appreciate you clarifying that more in this thread (and also would have not described what’s going on in the top-level post as “lying”).
Your summary here also seems reasonable, based on my current understanding, though of course the exact nature of the “broad strokes” is important to be clear about.
Of course, there is lots of stuff we continue to disagree on, and I will again reiterate my willingness to write back and forth with you, or talk with you, about these issues as much as you are interested, but don’t want to make you feel like you are stuck in a conversation that realistically we are not going to make that much progress on in this specific context.
I do think the top-level post could have done a better job at communicating the more blacklist nature of this new policy, but I greatly appreciate you clarifying that more in this thread (and also would have not described what’s going on in the top-level post as “lying”).
Your summary here also seems reasonable, based on my current understanding, though of course the exact nature of the “broad strokes” is important to be clear about.
Of course, there is lots of stuff we continue to disagree on, and I will again reiterate my willingness to write back and forth with you, or talk with you, about these issues as much as you are interested, but don’t want to make you feel like you are stuck in a conversation that realistically we are not going to make that much progress on in this specific context.