not something you’d do in a neutrally intended post written from a place of grave concern about community dynamics
I’m not going to posture like that’s terribly bad inhuman behavior, but we can see it and it’s okay to admit to ourselves that we see it
These have the tone of allusions to some sort of accusation, but as far as I can tell you’re not actually accusing Jessica of any transgression here, just saying that her post was not “neutrally intended,” which—what would that mean? A post where Gricean implicature was not relevant?
Can you clarify whether you meant to suggest Jessica was doing some specific harmful thing here or whether this tone is unendorsed?
Okay, sure. If what Scott says is true, and it matches my recollections of things I heard earlier—though I can attest to very little of it of my direct observation—then it seems like this post was written with knowledge of things that would make the overall story arc it showed, look very different, and those things were deliberately omitted. This is more manipulation than I myself would personally consider okay to use in a situation like this one, though I am ever mindful of Automatic Norms and the privilege of being more verbally facile than others in which facts I can include but still make my own points.
These have the tone of allusions to some sort of accusation, but as far as I can tell you’re not actually accusing Jessica of any transgression here, just saying that her post was not “neutrally intended,” which—what would that mean? A post where Gricean implicature was not relevant?
Can you clarify whether you meant to suggest Jessica was doing some specific harmful thing here or whether this tone is unendorsed?
Okay, sure. If what Scott says is true, and it matches my recollections of things I heard earlier—though I can attest to very little of it of my direct observation—then it seems like this post was written with knowledge of things that would make the overall story arc it showed, look very different, and those things were deliberately omitted. This is more manipulation than I myself would personally consider okay to use in a situation like this one, though I am ever mindful of Automatic Norms and the privilege of being more verbally facile than others in which facts I can include but still make my own points.
See Zack’s reply here and mine here. Overall I didn’t think the amount of responsibility was high enough for this to be worth mentioning.