Wilma de Soto wrote:
Those who were not gung-ho about certain issues such as the UCD, BID
and other Penn initiatives were labeled as whiners, cranks,
complainers etc.
My point is those who originally formed the UCNeighbors listserv did
so because they did not want to hear arguments from people who
continually disagreed with their view of how this community should
evolve and wanted a means to block and censure those they deemed
unwanted/unfit for their new listserv, which in and of itself is a
form of hostility. It seems to suggest that some of us neighbors are
superior to others.
Wilma. I don't know of anyone who is "gung ho" about any such
initiatives. Many of us see good and bad in such things. And because we
do this, it's _we_ who are labelled as appeasers, cowards, suckups, and
racists because we don't simply yell "Penn sucks!" and denounce it all
as evil gentrifying corporate malevolence.
The people who formed UCneighbors are, frankly, fed up with the crummy
and hostile level of discussion that's emerged on this list. It's become
tiressome, useless, and needlessly dispiriting. Yet you call setting up
another list an "act of hostility."
I think you have this _exactly backward_.
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