[calibraxis]

Moldbug's political views aren't the issue, it's his political action. He has a record of going to conferences and advocating racism: working to exclude. And one of Lambdaconf's sponsors is a racist political blog, which sounds unprecedented. (Evidence in my comment history.)

(The context is a country which kills and incarcerates blacks, post-slavery. Racism is political action which directly impacts the lives of confgoers and users. Toxic for education and networking.)

Any conf organizer has heard people say, "It's not the talks, it's the hallway conversations!" Racist political groups are now desperate enough to nakedly show their influence out in the open. Harder for them to dominate quietly.

[mikeash]

That's the first I've heard of it if so. For example, this statement which appears to have a lot of supporters in the community says nothing about hallway conversations, and merely objects to him being chosen as a speaker:

https://statement-on-lambdaconf.github.io

If it was, "this guy keeps harassing conference goers and holding unofficial mini sessions on how awesome racism is" then I might reconsider my position, but that's not what I've seen anybody (besides you, here, anyeay) say.

[thescribe]

Can you provide an example of any action he has taken that is not merely expressing a view?

[calibraxis]

Do you want evidence of him... shivving someone?

(But then again, how is stabbing someone with a knife relevant to a talk's quality?)

(But then again, how is a talk's quality relevant to free expression of views?)

Professional conferences "censor" speakers who don't provide what their audiences want. And have codes of conduct censoring harassing speech. You too: does everyone get to deliver speeches in your home? Visit your workplace and undermine you?

[tomp]

> But then again, how is stabbing someone with a knife relevant to a talk's quality?

It's not. I find no reason to exclude an ex-convict that has been charged and served his jail-time. Including them back into the society is the only way we can at least hope to combat recidivism.

[calibraxis]

It'd be great if you have evidence that Moldbug is an ex-con who underwent rehab for his racism!

If not, would you really invite someone with a record of stabbing people at conferences? Who writes literature advocating murder, etc?

(In the real world, Moldbug leverages society's obvious violence against African-Americans. He's therefore complicit in that systematic violence. That's why Lambdaconf's racist supporters are so desperate to support him, no matter how clumsily. That's why all these people were targeted on sjwlist.com for speaking out against violence: http://statement-on-lambdaconf.github.io/ )

[tomp]

> It'd be great if you have evidence that Moldbug is an ex-con who underwent rehab for his racism!

Unlike violent crime, racist speech isn't immediately dangerous. But in any case, if you believe he's a criminal, rally to have him arrested; him being a free man means that he has nothing to go in rehab for.

> society's obvious violence against African-Americans

You mean, African-American's obvious violence against African-Americans?

http://www.amren.com/news/2015/07/new-doj-statistics-on-race...

[zardgiv]

When arguing in favor of a racist speaker on the grounds of free speech, it's probably not the best idea to go off on a tangent quoting a "race realist" publication whose founder said:

"Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization — any kind of civilization — disappears"

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/grou...

[AnimalMuppet]

> > Can you provide an example of any action he has taken that is not merely expressing a view?

Apparently, the answer is: No.