Long tweet ahead. I'll post to FB for continuity. Because it's a story about how and why we humans get stuck. Last week @Wikipedia sent two begs for money from me at different addresses. My parents were different classes. Mom climbed the Ivory Tower. Dad died alone in an SRO.
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2020 was a year of corporate, policy and political begging often from people who are not well off or outright homeless (twice for me since 2016). @Wikipedia and its editors, had they done diligence, could have helped with a more explicit, fair, accurate accounting of my life.
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Some time back I'd read @marccanter4real's bio and was struck at the amount of detail (often very wrong I've learned) but that was never held to rigorous "journalistic" standards. It's not news @Wikimedia editors have different documentation often based on race, class, gender etc
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In a fit of anger against what I believed to be unethical and unequal I used @marccanter4real bio to show the detail with far less oversight. Marc's response bothered me because he showed me how wrong my assumption was via poor or no documentation around the #MeToo movement.
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While I will never deny any human their trauma, pain, violation I worry when our human traumas make a focal point of individuals without due process. Yes, shame to blame can work. I try to keep it org/corporate not people alone. But I miss that mark at times as can we all.
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The person who did not miss the Mark was @marccanter4real because he and I talked beyond that moment of bias and came to a different understanding of the exchange. He also saw the literary device and allegorical use of both of us as being failed by @Wikimedia along with THOUSANDS
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Thousands. @Wikipedia @Wikimedia would NOT EXIST TO BEG MONEY FROM anyone had we thousands of humans who built the World Wide Web. I took a risk. I'm better for it. And Marc proved civil discourse is alive and well without FUD spread by a good idea went oh so wrong oh so badly.
Nov 14, 2020 · 12:18 AM UTC
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