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They have willingly associated themselves with it after the fact, and to make no comment on what is an extremely dark chapter of American history seems pretty irresponsible. It would take absolutely no effort at all to say, "we are not valorising this man", so not doing it is quite telling.
If that is true and you have it from the organisers, then they have made some comment on the man himself. Could you share how you know about this?
Go read about the race, it's literally to mock the dude, the organizer said that could run more, as a burn
Okay, reading the article itself and not just the summary:
So it's just that the summary leaves out this information, which if they're going to mention the origins of the race is a pretty crucial detail to omit.
I have to say though, when you say they "make no comment on the motivation or the reason for imprisonment of the person" it really does create the impression they're being neutral in the matter, which they obviously aren't. I'm glad you explained more.
Well they don't describe the crime, or emit a stance on it, which makes sense, it's a trail race not a political or social justice platform.
Look, the issue here is clearly that the race appeared crypto-racist on that summary, and instead of clearly explaining the issue, you stated exactly the things that the race organisers are neutral on, which seems to almost surgically sidestep the clearly anti-racist motivations. You weren't technically wrong, but you can walk up to literally anyone on the street and say "you're going to die" and you're not wrong, but they'd want know why you were saying it.
This is about framing. There are infinite details in the universe, the trick with communication is to filter down to the important, salient details.
Most folks would just say "my bad, I didn't read the article"
Cool talk, thanks, glad you took on board what I was saying.
You can see from my comments how easy it is to clarify this issue in a straightforward way once you have read the article, but if you don't know how to do that I understand.
Oh I do, I just hope you take this instance to mind the next time you decide whether to comment based on the article or the auto generated summary.
I was commenting based on the comment I was replying to, which on reflection seemed to be intentionally avoiding answering the question. I can't think of another reason why someone who knew anything about this would have been as circumspect as they were.
Look, man, if you didn't read the article and were misled by the auto generated summary, do not blame someone else for not spelling it out for you.
Maaaybe, step 2 of that miscommunication might've been them not explicitly spelling everything out for you, but what was step 1?
It was you commenting without having read the article at hand.
Guess which one of these two is within YOUR control to prevent future misunderstandings?
Things might be different if this comment thread wasn't centered around a single article, but it is, so the reasonable assumption is that participants in the conversation have read the article.
EDIT: Don't get me wrong, you get props for going back in the article and recognizing that it provides a very different context from the auto generated summary, but I just don't think chastising someone else without acknowledging that you messed up by not reading the article is the play.
Okay, I didn't read it and should have. Usually I would, but I was commenting on a conversation. It's been dealt with now so we can drop it, right?
But on that issue, are you putting the other person on blast for not sharing the info? Because the moment I had it I clarified the issue very easily. I wonder what they were doing saying shit like:
Because that's so wrong that if they did know the actual story then it amounts to a lie of omission. It's so weirdly worded to avoid the truth it almost has to be deliberate. Any thoughts on that or is this like a team sport sort of situation?
No, because it's in the article being discussed at hand. It's already been shared, some folks have ignored it.
If you read the second paragraph of their comment, it further goes on to say it's just about the terrain. That second paragraph then reframes the first paragraph, because that first paragraph just states that organizers didn't comment on the crime, and the second paragraph says what the organizers actually focused on instead.
Sure, quoting the first sentence out of context makes it seem so deliberately precise that it could be misleading, but the second sentence provides the context that shows why they were so absolute in that statement.
They were simply claiming that the race organizers weren't being political when they founded the race - they just saw challenging terrain and figured they'd be able to give it a go and get do much better.
He said "it's literally to mock the dude", but to pretend like that is devoid of politics is to ignore what politics is. That's the problem here.
Great. Now that you have a more well thought argument, take it up with them, although I wouldn't be surprised if they just ignore you.
You're one of the people pretending this isn't political.
Did I say that, or are you conflating the cognitive dissonance of me discouraging you from blindly trusting autogenerated summaries with me generally disagreeing with you on everything?
You can say you were just paraphrasing, but "simply claiming" implies you saw nothing wrong with what they were saying.
EDIT: And I actually said that "to pretend like that is devoid of politics" was a problem, I never said you were saying it. But apparently you're happy to just repeat it as if it's a fine thing to say.
Oh, well when I said , "simply claiming", I was implying that most folks don't have an issue understanding what they meant, because it's simple when you take both paragraphs into consideration.
It seems like just as you chose to interpret things in an adversarial manner then, you are choosing to do so now.
EDIT: sigh, to address your edit:
It's pretty clear that you were asserting it's one of my beliefs here:
Sorry, you're right about the edit, I lost track of that when I was reading back.
Yeah idk what app you're using but in sync, once conversations have this many exchanges, it becomes completely unreadable as entire comments are compressed into a single column of 1 letter wide rows. Given this UI issue I'm not sure we can really continue the conversation if we wanted to.
I hope you have a good day - I appreciate the good faith and earnestness from everyone.
Read the article, self serve a little bit before branding a whole situation racist
Edit In this case they filtered down the important details...right in the article...the core vehicle of communication.
And the fact you couldn't just say that in your comment is either because you don't know how to just say what you mean, or you hadn't read the article yourself at that point. Which is it?
And I didn't brand the whole situation racist, that was conditional on the information you were giving me. If you wanted to say it wasn't racist, you could have done that if you had the information.
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