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Also, he's no garden variety racist. He's the creator of the "Neoreactionary Movement" http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement http://rationalwiki.
by MattRogish 11y ago
Also, he's no garden variety racist. He's the creator of the "Neoreactionary Movement" http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement
Regardless of whether or not you think a racist should or should not present (be paid to speak? Edit: they are not paid to speak at this conf although some expenses are covered) the founder of a pro slavery, pro facist movement speaking at your conference is a different sort of thing.
- saryant 11y agoFWIW, LambdaConf speakers are not paid.
- jonsterling 11y agoCorrect; we are typically given funding to attend though. (Travel & hotel expenses, free ticket to the conference.)
- saryant 11y agoTrue, I forgot about the travel expenses as I'm a local speaker.
- Karunamon 11y agothe founder of a pro slavery, pro facist movement speaking at your conference is a different sort of thing. Unless he is speaking about pro slavery and pro fascism, I have absolutely no reason to care. Can we please learn to separate technical concerns from nontechnical concerns? And before anyone starts replying with "they're one in the same!" - only under certain circumstances. If the subject of the talk is garbage collection in a programming language, what the speaker believes about anything other than garbage collection in a programming language is IRRELEVANT.
- masklinn 11y agoWhy do you care so much what other people think and do? You don't care? Then don't. Other do care? Let them, since you don't care keep not caring?
- hnbroseph 11y agothis seems more like meta-caring. i may not care about what anyone writes in a book, but it can be concerning when people start burning books they dislike.
- masklinn 11y agoNobody's burning books here, a number of people refuse to associate with Moldbug entirely, and one of them had a workshop at lambdaconf which they cancelled. That's about the extent of it. And then Karunamon comes in and asserts that no, they can't have freedom of association and they must judge others by Karunamon's standards only.
- Karunamon 11y agoI said nothing of the sort. I said can we please stop having knee-jerk reactions like this? Everyone who would have benefited from the conference was directly harmed by this immature, foolish decision.
- masklinn 11y agoThat's exactly what I've written: you've decided that you wouldn't mind associating with Yarvin, and that Sterling shouldn't mind either.