I’m very sorry. Despite trying to closely follow this thread, I missed your reply until now.
I also feel that this response doesn’t adequately acknowledge how tactically adversarial this context is, and how hard it is to navigate people’s desire for privacy.
You’re right, it doesn’t. I wasn’t that aware or thinking about those elements as much as I could have been. Sorry for that.
It was very difficult for me to create a document that I felt comfortable making public...
It makes sense now that this is the document you ended up writing. I do appreciate you went to the effort to write up a critical document to bring important concerns. It is valuable and important that people do so.
My hope is that inch by inch, step by step, more and more truth and clarity can come out, as more and more people become comfortable sharing their personal experience.
Hear, hear.
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If you’ll forgive me suggesting again what you should have written, I’m thinking the adversarial context might have been it. If I had read that you were aware of a number of severe harms that weren’t publicly known, but that you couldn’t say anything more specific because of fears of retribution and the need to protect privacy–that would have been a large and important update to me regarding Leverage. And it might have got a conversation going into the situation to figure out whether and what information was being suppressed.
Thanks, this all helps. At the time, I felt that writing this with the meta-disclosures you’re describing would’ve been a tactical error. But I’ll think on this more; I appreciate the input, it lands better this time.
I did write both “I know former members who feel severely harmed” and “I don’t want to become known as someone saying things this organization might find unflattering”. But those are both very, very understated, and purposefully de-emphasized.
I’m very sorry. Despite trying to closely follow this thread, I missed your reply until now.
You’re right, it doesn’t. I wasn’t that aware or thinking about those elements as much as I could have been. Sorry for that.
It makes sense now that this is the document you ended up writing. I do appreciate you went to the effort to write up a critical document to bring important concerns. It is valuable and important that people do so.
Hear, hear.
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If you’ll forgive me suggesting again what you should have written, I’m thinking the adversarial context might have been it. If I had read that you were aware of a number of severe harms that weren’t publicly known, but that you couldn’t say anything more specific because of fears of retribution and the need to protect privacy–that would have been a large and important update to me regarding Leverage. And it might have got a conversation going into the situation to figure out whether and what information was being suppressed.
But it’s easier to say that in hindsight.
Thanks, this all helps. At the time, I felt that writing this with the meta-disclosures you’re describing would’ve been a tactical error. But I’ll think on this more; I appreciate the input, it lands better this time.
I did write both “I know former members who feel severely harmed” and “I don’t want to become known as someone saying things this organization might find unflattering”. But those are both very, very understated, and purposefully de-emphasized.