I do want that, but specifically I was responding to the proposed ban against “recruiting” for “hate groups” and people associated with them, which was specifically mentioned as applying to GG. As far as I can tell, it was intended and expected to apply to this post and its author:
If we’ve going to allow discussion of GG as a phenomenon/movement/group/concept, I think the viewpoint above is one that ought to be included.
What I want to avoid is the situation where we only allow discussion of why some folks here dislike GG, the people associated with it, or those people’s actions, while prohibiting discussion of why it might be interesting to others here or might make a good audience for IF.
After decades of internet discussions in many forums on a wide variety of topics, I no longer have any expectation that people will respect me when I say anything, let alone respect my beliefs, let alone agree with them. That’s fine. What I want is to be allowed to express those opinions to the same degree as the people who disagree are allowed to express theirs, and to be treated with the same degree of civility.
I don’t want to see the forum taking an official stance on whether GG is a respectable movement, or whether the harassment suffered by GG or anti-GG forces is more deserving of our sympathy, any more than I want to see it taking an official stance on whether Firefly was an overrated show or Inform is better than Twine.