[Frameworks] Sally Berger, film curator, fired at MoMA;

[Cari Machet]

agreed fred > how 'bout some actual facts regarding reality

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com> wrote:

> I agree in general with David's comments, without knowing much about the
> specifics of the situation, but I wanted to post a cautionary opinion about
> online petitions. I just about never sign them. First of all, they usually
> have no effect. Second, when they do, their effect is often a bad one. More
> importantly, mostly they refer to very complicated situations about which
> the signers know little. In the larger world,  We certainly know that major
> institutions have fired people for unjust,  idiotic or even evil reasons,
> but I also know of people who have been fired, or have had their lives
> ruined, through online petitions or shaming for offenses that perhaps did
> not deserved that. (A recent example,
> http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/shame-on-you-tube-1.3086407 )
>
> It's a big enough challenge to act well in one's own life, and to treat
> well the people with whom one comes in immediate contact, and Lord knows i
> have not always succeeded in doing that. It is all too easy to sign
> something in outrage over some situation or other. The issues about which I
> feel I know enough to have an opinion -- we should use less fossil fuels,
> for example -- are not going to be affected by online petitions anyway.
>
> Do we initiate and sign online petitions to make ourselves feel better, or
> to actually make things better? As one-liner pieces of wisdom go, I am a
> great admirer of Gandhi's "Be the change you want to see ion the world."
>
> At the very least, it seems to me that someone who cares about this
> curator should try to do the work a good journalist would do and get to the
> bottom of the situation. An authoritative analysis that could show the
> firing was really wrong might actually help.
>
> Fred Camper
> Chicago
>
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