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Whether viciously written or no, isn't the salient question: why give tax payer dollars to non profits if either (a) no net low cost housing built (b) the custo
by scrubs 2y ago
Whether viciously written or no, isn't the salient question: why give tax payer dollars to non profits if either (a) no net low cost housing built (b) the customers of non profit are displeased.
- mattmaroon 2y agoYes, and think how much more convincing the argument would be if it relied on its merits (which are substantial) rather the what amounts to ad hominems.
- tptacek 2y agoYes. This. I think the writing is doubly despicable for discrediting an important argument I agree with. Also I'm irked that the author has so little respect for his readers that he thinks none of them will Google any of the names in his piece.
- mattmaroon 2y agoYeah. I am sure that arguments that appeal to people like us might be somewhat different than once that appeal to the general public, but this seems like the kind of argument that is aimed at people like us. I have done a good amount of work with not for profits in the last 10 years and have definitely seen a small piece of the dark side of the industry that he is talking about.
- tptacek 2y agoI do a bunch of local politics stuff, and we have problematic nonprofits. You could write a compelling piece about poorly managed nonprofit contracts fucking up their missions, and it wouldn't need to rely on unrelated 20-year-old criminal records.