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> Fourth - why stop at one specific class of crimes? Let's throw out everybody with a record. Tax issues? Stealing candy at a gas store when you were 12? Bad di
by alanbernstein 4y ago
> Fourth - why stop at one specific class of crimes? Let's throw out everybody with a record. Tax issues? Stealing candy at a gas store when you were 12? Bad divorce?
This is really disingenuous. When you're interacting with a stranger, and you find out they had a bad divorce, do you suddenly feel concern that they might divorce you?
Let's go in the other direction. Do you believe child sex offenders are suffering injustice when they are not allowed to interact with children? How about drunk drivers that are permanently banned from driving (hypothetical though that may be)?
- csmpltn 4y ago> "This is really disingenuous. When you're interacting with a stranger, and you find out they had a bad divorce, do you suddenly feel concern that they might divorce you?" I think you got the general spirit of my comment, and I don't want to play tit-for-tat over the examples I provided. Why should the bar for banning people from associating with C++ conferences only stop at one specific class of crimes? > "Do you believe child sex offenders are suffering injustice when they are not allowed to interact with children?" No, I never said that. What we're seeing here is a coordinated social justice campaign (taking place on Twitter and other social networks) to ban an ex-con, who is an otherwise free human being, from associating with a C++ conference.
- alanbernstein 4y agoI think it's a good question to ask, because I agree the social justice cancel war feels a bit silly, generally speaking. But you equated one of the most violent crimes with misdemeanor petty theft of a 50 cent candy bar. That doesn't make any sense.