Why would Cremieux be viewed as a “community representative”…?
On less.online, the list of invited guests is titled “SOME WRITINGS WE LOVE” and subtitled “The sites below embody the virtues we are celebrating. Each author below has been offered a free ticket to LessOnline.” [emphasis mine]
I guess technically that says his site embodies these virtues, not that he as a person does, but I think that’s a pretty hairsplitty distinction.
I don’t get it. How does any of that make someone a “community representative”?
Suppose I start a baking forum for people who like to apply careful analysis to baking, and I decide to run an event for “rational baking” aficionados. On the announcement page, I write that I love Christopher Kimball’s writings, that he embodies the virtues that we are celebrating, and that he has been offered a free ticket to LessFondant. Would you conclude from this that Kimball is a “community representative” of my forum for baking nerds…?
Seems pretty clear to me that this would be a quite ridiculous conclusion to draw.
I think that would be a perfectly reasonable conclusion to draw! I think we must be understanding the meaning of “community representative” differently.
How can it possibly be a perfect conclusion?? In my scenario, you don’t even know if Christopher Kimball has ever heard of my forum! (Sure, I say that he’s been offered a free ticket, but how do you know whether he’s even gotten the email, or whatever?)
Are you suggesting that I might, right now, at this very moment, be a “community representative” of some community that I’ve never heard of, because they put a link to my blog on their event announcement page, and sent me some sort of offer which went straight to my junk mail folder?
I actually think that distinction is not very hairsplitty here. One of the most striking things from this whole discussion is that the Cremieux who writes the blog actually does seem very different from the Cremieux who appears on Twitter/X and Reddit and Discord. My exposure to him is primarily through the blog, which I do like, which does not seem to say offensive things about race, which doesn’t even seem to have race as a dominant theme. Whereas there do seem to be some more questionable statements and interactions from him on these other platforms.
On less.online, the list of invited guests is titled “SOME WRITINGS WE LOVE” and subtitled “The sites below embody the virtues we are celebrating. Each author below has been offered a free ticket to LessOnline.” [emphasis mine]
I guess technically that says his site embodies these virtues, not that he as a person does, but I think that’s a pretty hairsplitty distinction.
I don’t get it. How does any of that make someone a “community representative”?
Suppose I start a baking forum for people who like to apply careful analysis to baking, and I decide to run an event for “rational baking” aficionados. On the announcement page, I write that I love Christopher Kimball’s writings, that he embodies the virtues that we are celebrating, and that he has been offered a free ticket to LessFondant. Would you conclude from this that Kimball is a “community representative” of my forum for baking nerds…?
Seems pretty clear to me that this would be a quite ridiculous conclusion to draw.
I think that would be a perfectly reasonable conclusion to draw! I think we must be understanding the meaning of “community representative” differently.
How can it possibly be a perfect conclusion?? In my scenario, you don’t even know if Christopher Kimball has ever heard of my forum! (Sure, I say that he’s been offered a free ticket, but how do you know whether he’s even gotten the email, or whatever?)
Are you suggesting that I might, right now, at this very moment, be a “community representative” of some community that I’ve never heard of, because they put a link to my blog on their event announcement page, and sent me some sort of offer which went straight to my junk mail folder?
I actually think that distinction is not very hairsplitty here. One of the most striking things from this whole discussion is that the Cremieux who writes the blog actually does seem very different from the Cremieux who appears on Twitter/X and Reddit and Discord. My exposure to him is primarily through the blog, which I do like, which does not seem to say offensive things about race, which doesn’t even seem to have race as a dominant theme. Whereas there do seem to be some more questionable statements and interactions from him on these other platforms.
That’s a pretty standard thing with bigoted bloggers/speakers/intellectuals.
Have a popular platform where you say 95% things which are ok/interesting/entertaining. And 5% to 10% poison (bigotry).
Then a lead in to something that’s 90% ok/interesting/entertaining and 10% to 15% poison (bigotry).
Etc.
Atrioc explains it pretty well here, with Sam Hyde as an example: