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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
by 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 agoIt 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...