[governance] Message to IGC/ was formal notice to Suresh

[Riaz K Tayob]

1. I do not like anyone who makes a contribution to be marginalised. But 
if the tenor is 'eye for an eye' then there is also justice in that, as 
I have found it necessary to assert from time to time.

2. There is a need for countermajoritarian approaches to deal with 
"minorities" and minority views, one need only recall the single tooter 
campaign to acknowledge the importance of this.

3. Third Worldist views on this list are frequent recipients of 
lambasting in the most hostile terms (which are tolerated). There can be 
no fairness unless this is corrected. By that I mean, entertaining 
ideas, not necessarily having to agree with them. There is a qualitative 
difference between those whose views largely find support from the rich 
and powerful countries, and minority views (CIR, public interest or 
non-market orientation, legitimacy, etc).

Well done coordinators, lets hope it works this time cos I recall one 
time when this was tried here the argument was this is just like the 
culture of the IETF where there is robust discussion. Robust discussion 
can be civil.

Thanks Norbert and Sala for raising the bar on civility!

On 2013/04/09 05:41 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> However, the debate between Suresh, McTim on one hand and Gurstein and Parminder on the other was a legitimate one, and I saw as much hostility and aggravation on one side as the other.


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