25 Feb
2014
25 Feb
'14
11:21 a.m.
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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