Dave Axler wrote:
Brian, Sharrieff, & Co.:
To quote again from the same mail sent by Sharrieff: "This is a
committee meeting for those who already joined and those who want to
join. ... All are welcomed to hear what is happening, but we will
conduct a committee meeting."
Yes, it's a planning meeting, as you point out -- it's not the grand
community-wide forum that may result from all the planning. Yes, it
has "...an agenda and direction..." which Sharrieff describes as
"...creating a process."
My email referred to what the committee will be doing, not to the end
result of their work. I'm sorry that you weren't able to make that
distinction when you said, "Maybe you people are missing something
important here....It _is_ not going to be a large public meeting at
which public policy is to be debated."
No, your email referred to Sharrieff's scheduling of _this_ meeting.
If the planning process itself is not conducted in an open and
reasonably inclusive manner, then the results of that planning will be
suspect. That may be an unfortunate side-effect of the planning
process, but it is not an issue that should be dismissed with snarky
straw-man references to "the agoraphobic community," "chi energies,"
and "bio-geographical deficiencies."
If you can explain how to have a meeting where every single person in
University City can attend-- free of scheduling conflicts, access
issues, and the like for several thousand residents-- please, by all
means, educate us. Otherwise, drop the pretense of lecturing about
"inclusiveness" by demanding that others meet impossibly Utopian goals.
Why? Because it's nothing more than an insult to the people who are
actually _trying_ to establish such a process. Sharrieff wants to get a
meeting together to begin to address issues with UCD. He sets a date, a
time, he gets a place to meet, and he starts asking people to attend.
Obviously, not everybody's going to be able to attend; but your
complaints amount to saying, "You haven't accommodated all the people
who _can't_ make that date. You haven't even _tried_ to be
all-inclusive." It's an _empty_ complaint, usually made so one can
congratulate oneself on being more "inclusive" without having to try to
do better.
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