[bestbits] Call to Best Bits participants for nominations to Brazil meeting committees

[michael gurstein]

In England, where I spent some idle years pursuing an education they had a term--"clubbable"--what it meant was, whether you were suitable to be asked to "join the club"... 

Now among the overt criteria for being "clubbable" was of course, whether you were "nice" enough, whether you would fit in with the existing members, make them feel comfortable and all warm and cozy at and in your presence.

Of course what that really meant was whether you were sufficiently "like us" for them to let you into the club... whether you were the right colour, or the right gender, had gone to the right schools, were of an appropriate religion, and of course, overall whether your "politics/value system" would be such as to support the "club's" status quo--their perq's and privileges, folkways and prejudices...

Needless to say I was never "invited".

But I have to ask here, are you folks really serious about this--having as a criteria for joining a "Coordinating Committee" of "Civil Society" whether someone adheres to kindergarten rules of playing "nice"... 

If that is so then surely any right minded person would treat this self-selected grouping and this process with the contempt and derision it deserves.

M

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From: bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net [mailto:bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net] On Behalf Of Avri Doria
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 7:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [bestbits] Call to Best Bits participants for nominations to Brazil meeting committees

[MG>] snipped...

So sure put in the criterion of including minority viewpoints, but also put in the criterion of "plays well with others."

avri