On Wed, 25 May 2016, nalini(_dot_)elkins(_at_)insidethestack(_dot_)com wrote:
On 5/25/16 6:17 AM, nalini(_dot_)elkins(_at_)insidethestack(_dot_)com wrote:
So, it is not OK to put an additional burden sometimes on GLBT people
but it is OK to put an additional burden on Asian and African and
other people as far as cost, racism, visa, etc, etc?
Perhaps we should regard this as an opportunity to talk
about which forms of bigotry we'll accommodate and which
we won't.
Well said.
Nalini
In an ideal world, there would be no travel costs, no visa barriers,
no discrimination and no bureaucracies to deal with. We don't live
in such a world. Until we do, this isn't a matter of what type of
bigotry is worse or better IMO, it's about making practical choices
about meeting locations (assuming we still want to have physical
meetings). Every meeting we hold excludes some number of people for
numerous reasons, hopefully it's not the same people every time.
(Yes, I know some people are not able to attend at all for economic
reasons, but that's not a problem solved by the 1-1-1 model unless
by sheer luck we land a meeting in someone's "back yard")
Ole