At 01:03 PM 8/1/01 +1200 K.Feete wrote:
>Dean was, for me, the last strike- less because of what he said, which as
>I mentioned has been said and done before, but because, scanning my
>email, I saw only one reply condemning him for it.
>
>That's not right. We should be more of a community than that.
I find it worth mentioning that Dr. Brin gave exactly the same reason for
his leaving. "Oh, it wasn't so much what Person X said, it was the
failure of everyone else to publicly condemn Person X for saying it, on my
behalf."
As it was, there were a lot of valid reasons why the latter never happened
- the incident (with Dr. Brin) happened on a holiday weekend in the States,
many others were simply not reading that particular discussion, and others
simply aren't in the habit of calling people out in public - preferring to
either stay out of personal disputes, or bring up such matters privately.
I dunno, but the logic never seemed right to me then, and it doesn't seem
right to me now.
JDG
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