On Mon, Feb 24, 2014, lynn ackerson wrote:
>
> This reminds me a lot of a situation in one of the nearby communities.
> There was a dancer who was openly rude to the other dancers and the
> callers in particular. An example would be from the floor calling
> the caller a Nazi. He was extremely disruptive, and I went to their
> board to request they do something about it since I would not feel
> comfortable calling there any more. They admitted that they had had a
> number of complaints about this dancer, but because contra communities
> are so inclusive, they couldn't ask him to leave. My question to them
> was whether it was more important to be inclusive to a very disruptive
> dancer and in turn lose many dancers (both new and long-term) due to
> his behavior; or ask him to leave for a period such as 6 months and
> subsequently building their dance community or at least reducing the
> probability of people (including callers) not returning.

Sounds like you're talking about the Geek Social Fallacies:

http://plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html

However, what you're talking about is sufficiently different in degree
from what Greg was doing as to be different in kind (particularly with
the example of "Nazi"), and I think it is unfair to bring that up in
relation to Greg.

(I have some thoughts about Greg, still debating with myself whether to
post them. ;-)
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