I think it's okay to not invite someone notable in the creation or development of a topic because of their views on other topics. Consider a PCR conference wit

I think it's okay to not invite someone notable in the creation or development of a topic because of their views on other topics. Consider a PCR conference without inviting Mullis, or transistors without inviting Shockley? (Back when he was alive, of course.) More contentiously, a conference on DNA without inviting Watson. Or on US covert actions in Chile without inviting Kissinger; who I think should be tried as a war criminal. At some point the personal views are very likely to get in the way of the goal of the conference. That said, the examples I listed above are many orders of magnitude more severe than what's been brought up in regards to Nodevember/Crockford, and I'm as clueless about what's going on as anyone else.