Jon Pretty

Would you like a unified, "healed" community? Wishful thinking and "peace on earth" type thoughts don't help. Dismissing the bad experience of others doesn't help either. What helps is growing a pair and calling out bullies.https://twitter.com/raulraja/status/1289967477653307392 …

I'm not sure why you say that. Plenty of disagreements have been solved because the people involved sat down and had a reasoned talk about them. You've forgotten them because they came to nothing, and people got on with things. So this message feels unnecessarily incendiary.

Plenty of disagreements have been solved by sitting down and talking things through, yes, but bullying isn't mere disagreement, esp when the same pattern of behavior keeps repeating, and it's ridiculous to ask victims to sit down and solve differences.

It may be futile to hope that some differences can ever be resolved, though I prefer to try. But we shouldn't call marketing claims (and here I'm deliberately taking no opinion on them) "bullying" either, even if they're tiresome and bogus... unless you saw something I didn't?

You can try, I've always admired you for that, but unless the aggressor stops being an aggressor, at some point it becomes victim blaming. The repeated bullying behavior should be obvious, but I'll shut up, lest I might get a cease and desist letter

I find all of this a dangerous precedent. I have a blog post ready on this. And yes, that will have consequences for me in the current binary twitter world.