You can't blame Danny for kowren's posts. It's not like kowren was on your side and Danny changed her mind, and it seems likely that in the current climate kowren would have made a similar post regardless of whatever Danny said.
Maybe it's the fact that kowren keeps namedropping Danny as if he's some sort of supporter that's got you riled up? Again, it's not Danny's fault if kowren has jumped to that conclusion and is trying to push it.
Thirdly, if you're going to go and blame people for the responses that their posts get then you should probably keep in mind that your post back in February was probably one of the catalysts for Danny's current post ...
Uh, I should probably say something else here. Please don't think that I'm pissed off at you. I'm sure Danny would much rather you call him out immediately and directly rather than go and complain about him to other people. You had a problem with Danny and you came right out with it, which was the Right Thing. Much the same as your post back in February was the Right Thing. I'm pretty much only having this conversation with you because your first reply was left hanging there and no one was touching it. Danny can defend his own beliefs perfectly well but it looks like he's signed off for the night.
I'm a firm believer in getting stuff out in the open and I think it's especially important in this situation because there's a hell of a lot of people upset, in WA and also in the other states. The crime that was committed on logansrogue is affecting a lot of people (which is in no way her fault) and causing a lot of anguish and anger in the community as a whole. The fact that it happened several years ago and is still a major issue shows that the community hasn't come to terms with it yet. Now that we're all discussing it we can let logansrogue know that she has the support and concern of hundreds of people. We can let the rapist know that many many people are still incredibly angry at him and don't want him to attend Swancon. (The fact that he was even considering going shows that this message wasn't getting through to him before.) Even kowren's posts are important in that we now know what's on her mind and we can adjust our opinions of her accordingly. I think Danny's post was aimed more at eventually healing the community as a whole and dealing with the poison that's been sitting in our guts for the last few years.
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Re: If not this, then what?
Date: 2010-03-04 06:59 pm (UTC)You can't blame Danny for kowren's posts. It's not like kowren was on your side and Danny changed her mind, and it seems likely that in the current climate kowren would have made a similar post regardless of whatever Danny said.
Maybe it's the fact that kowren keeps namedropping Danny as if he's some sort of supporter that's got you riled up? Again, it's not Danny's fault if kowren has jumped to that conclusion and is trying to push it.
Thirdly, if you're going to go and blame people for the responses that their posts get then you should probably keep in mind that your post back in February was probably one of the catalysts for Danny's current post ...
Uh, I should probably say something else here. Please don't think that I'm pissed off at you. I'm sure Danny would much rather you call him out immediately and directly rather than go and complain about him to other people. You had a problem with Danny and you came right out with it, which was the Right Thing. Much the same as your post back in February was the Right Thing.
I'm pretty much only having this conversation with you because your first reply was left hanging there and no one was touching it. Danny can defend his own beliefs perfectly well but it looks like he's signed off for the night.
I'm a firm believer in getting stuff out in the open and I think it's especially important in this situation because there's a hell of a lot of people upset, in WA and also in the other states. The crime that was committed on logansrogue is affecting a lot of people (which is in no way her fault) and causing a lot of anguish and anger in the community as a whole. The fact that it happened several years ago and is still a major issue shows that the community hasn't come to terms with it yet. Now that we're all discussing it we can let logansrogue know that she has the support and concern of hundreds of people. We can let the rapist know that many many people are still incredibly angry at him and don't want him to attend Swancon. (The fact that he was even considering going shows that this message wasn't getting through to him before.) Even kowren's posts are important in that we now know what's on her mind and we can adjust our opinions of her accordingly.
I think Danny's post was aimed more at eventually healing the community as a whole and dealing with the poison that's been sitting in our guts for the last few years.