Hey Will, I just want to say I do appreciate hearing your genuine feelings and I appreciate your writing. I certainly don’t want to make you feel unsafe and I apologize for doing so. I also certainly don’t want to induce a chilling effect on your future posting. I had thought that we were of roughly similar status with roughly similar abilities to harm the other professionally, such that by picking on you I wouldn’t be threatening or punching down. Note obviously I have no intention of actually harming you. Furthermore, my overall view of you, which is quite high/positive, remains unchanged.
I think I could’ve picked my question more carefully and I think it’s totally fair for you to not choose to defend the existence of your post. I think there’s a lot here related to the content that makes it unusually difficult to engage on this.
Hey Will, I just want to say I do appreciate hearing your genuine feelings and I appreciate your writing. I certainly don’t want to make you feel unsafe and I apologize for doing so. I also certainly don’t want to induce a chilling effect on your future posting. I had thought that we were of roughly similar status with roughly similar abilities to harm the other professionally, such that by picking on you I wouldn’t be threatening or punching down. Note obviously I have no intention of actually harming you. Furthermore, my overall view of you, which is quite high/positive, remains unchanged.
I think I could’ve picked my question more carefully and I think it’s totally fair for you to not choose to defend the existence of your post. I think there’s a lot here related to the content that makes it unusually difficult to engage on this.