[governance] On acceptable and unacceptable criticism

[Riaz K Tayob]

Why does it go too far?

If one is engaging in civil society one can have one's views, but at 
least must be open to persuasion, or no?

If what you argue is true then I too have lots of motive to dredge up 
and raise on this list, particularly regarding collaborators and what I 
call the paternalistic liberal bent. I am very happy to discuss this in 
terms of motives and substance - it was not fruitful in the past, but 
hey I am already boxed in as anti-American (on a very loose 
charaterisation as I would join self-hating Americans who share my 
crits) so that would give me and a bunch of us some real space to move 
on what is a constrained list at best.

Norbert, I for one find the recent discussions much more amenable to 
engagement, the decorum is great, and have noted much more 
participation. It is important that the role you play be treated with 
the decorum it deserves, even if you personally may have issues with 
people. I vote that the list is MUCH better since your interventions... 
Does anyone feel like this too? Or is the 'consensus' with Avri in 
general approach or tenor?

Riaz

On 2013/05/27 12:27 PM, Avri Doria wrote:
> On 27 May 2013, at 11:21, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>
>>   or when directed
>> against actions of a coordinator (actions of coordinators can be
>> legitimately discussed and --if that is desired-- appealed, but
>> disparaging remarks about actions of a coordinator are just as much
>> against the posting rules as personal attacks against anyone else.)
> this goes too far.
> please warm me now
>
> avri
>
>
>


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