[Alumni-chat] Alumni-chat Digest, Vol 6, Issue 74

[Liza (eadler2001 at yahoo.com)]

Paige,

I think that Pam meant to say that /verbal abuse/ was oppressive. I agree with that notion (and initially misinterpreted her comments along the same lines that I think you did).

>I was not intending a sideways jab.  I was trying to avoid the kind of
>direct and nasty attacks that have been happening, which I thought were
>sufficiently visible to everyone that i didn't need to point and shoot.
>
>It is one thing to raise questions and relate facts.  It's quite another to
>use disparaging and demeaning terms when addressing each other.  For what?
>To intimidate, silence, drive away?    We're adults, afterall.
>
>>From: alumni-chat-request at w3.antioch.edu
>>Reply-To: alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu
>>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:32:31 -0400 (EDT)
>>To: alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu
>>Subject: Alumni-chat Digest, Vol 6, Issue 74
>>
>>Hi Pam. If you have a problem with the SOPP or RDPP, perhaps you could make a
>>post that directly addresses them and explaining your issues. Otherwise,
>>perhaps you could not make sideways jabs at them to no purpose at all. This is
>>not to say that I disagree with the substance of your post, though. Best,
>>
>>Paige
>>2010