I do realize that you were commenting on a broader issue. I think not calling it a coup is basically Newspeak that will deepen the wounds of those us of who were targeted by the coup and those who remained loyal to the Coalition. It also diminishing the extraordinary defection Scylla made, which is actually what basically ended the coup.

There's been this conflation of the idea of reconciliation and the silencing or rewriting of the past, and that's what my comments above are pushing against. Reconciliation cannot happen when the wounds and desires of one side are pushed aside, while the other side is granted clemency and gets to avoid having their names go down in history for their actions.

That's a broader issue that still lingers on the surface of this community. So if we want to focus on Sam's CSS membership alone in this thread, that's fine. But saying we shouldn't call what happened a coup is very symbolic of the increasing sense of betrayal a number of players are feeling.


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