It’s odd, when AvWeb initially announced this appointment, there was a rash of ill-considered comments, however I reserved judgment and spent some time to research Mr. Washington’s experience and demonstrated skills and then I provided fellow readers an objective, impartial overview of his career, background, and education for other readers to make their own assessment.
I posted a comment that provided no analysis but simply stated info he’d previously provided in his LinkedIn, or in his CV for previous positions, or in interviews. I made no opinion, or broad generalizations, just the facts that Prof. Google and LexisNexis can give anyone in 20 minutes of work.
My summary said exactly the same thing as the first two sentences of Russ’ second paragraph, but for some reason I was not allowed to present these facts. Again, I presented no impassioned ill-informed bigoted raging diatribe, I calmly stated the public record facts of his background.
My post was unceremoniously deleted in 10 minutes. For some reason, when I said the plain facts, it was immediately flagged as uncivil, disrespectful, racist, misogynist, classist, ableist, classism xenophobic, cisgenderism, shadist, sizeist, imperialist, and probably many more -isims.
Evidently when Russ reads something off the AP wire, objective facts are now allowed to be posted on AvWeb, but when a reader does it months earlier, it’s spewing hate and needs to be purged immediately. Not sure if I’m even allowed to point this out, so this post is also probably not going to be around too long.