Posted by mair on August 5, 2002, at 16:02:59
In reply to Biggest reason people are leaving........, posted by tina on August 5, 2002, at 13:30:59
Far be it for me to defend Dr. Bob who's been mystifying one and all with his administrative decisions of late, but I don't think Phil's blocking was particularly surprising.
Where emotions are involved, people frequently hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see. Two people can look at the same set of facts and draw vastly different conclusions. I love some of the constructions that some have drawn of what Phil really "meant" to say, but even Dinah could see a slight "value judgment" in Phil's statement and I know when I first read it, I took it to be more than a slight value judgment about those to whom Alii was referring in her initial post.
If you look at Phil's statement entirely out of context, it seems pretty harmless. But viewed in the context of some on-going administrative disputes that Bob clearly would like to see end, Phil's statement certainly could be viewed as being critical. Add to that mix the fact that many of us have been quite critical of Bob for not intervening much sooner in potentially confrontational situations, and the fact that his trigger finger has been pretty quick lately.
I'm very sorry Phil got blocked because I appreciate his many contributions to this board (including that wonderful sense of humor) and realize that he's been trying to keep things going here in spite of the fact that he's apparently about to expire from a Texas sized heat stroke. Nonetheless, if you look at Alii's post and Phil's response in the context of what's been going on here over a longer period of time, Dr. Bob's decisions doesn't seem all that arbitrary.
Mair
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