BUGS MUST CONTINUE | 2013-10-29
The reaction to my proposal to close down the SEMINAR led to the nearest thing we have had to a SEMINAR in a long time.
No, I am not going to abandon BUGS, but the pretense of a seminar.
The immediate practical problem is that no one else will put his name on it but me.
I use HD here because he gave the whole thing a lot of thought and what he says capsulizes in his different entries what I got from commenters as a whole.
If I understand HD, 1) I should not lose my temper, 2) BUGS has had no effect whatsoever on the term "anti-racist" and he did learn a lot back when we WERE a seminar.
My basic observation was that we had done a job on "anti-racist" so we should look at the other verbal fortresses the other side has retreated behind, like "Diversity," fire at them and see if we can make them as sensitive to those terms as we have to anti-racist.
The answers I get are that there must be no change, that we have had no effect on anti-racist and Bob is not being nice.
My only function is to use my name here.
I can do my writing in Bob's Meanderings.