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> In the light of a community, you can't, and you shouldn't, pull one aspect of a person's character and isolate it from the rest of their identity. Isn't this

• exolymph 11y ago
  I think the parent comment is referring to how people have tried to argue that Yarvin will be able to sequester one part of his personality and creative output, and that the rest of us should pretend his Moldbug persona doesn't affect the rest of him.
• lukev 11y ago
  Not at all! I can disassociate myself from Yarvin, and even "no-platform" him while fully acknowledging that he's a legit functional programmer with interesting technical ideas. But I can't engage with him as a peer, in community, without denying or ignoring (or accepting) that he's a racist.
  • antifasci 11y ago
    It seems to me that a truly 'healthy' community would not draw it's boundaries so tightly. If I were building a community I'd want it to be one that welcomed even those with views I found despicable so long as they could engage in thoughtful, reasonable discourse. A community should allow for people to be wrong, and still be welcome. Having near zero interest in Curtis' political writing his recent AMA [0] and Medium post [1] come off as earnest and harmless. 0 - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4bxf6f/im_curtis_yarvin_developer_of_urbit_ama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4bxf6f/im_curtis_yarv... 1 - https://medium.com/@curtis.yarvin/why-you-should-come-to-lambdaconf-anyway-35ff8cd4fb9d#.29ttu63e2 https://medium.com/@curtis.yarvin/why-you-should-come-to-lam...