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by tomp 3724 days ago
> 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.
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calibraxis 3724 days ago
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/ )

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tomp 3724 days ago
> 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...

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zardgiv 3724 days ago
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...

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tomp 3723 days ago
Didn't realise that... In any case, I was only quoting it gor the statistics presented in the table, which seems to have been copied from a DOJ report, and hopefully not tampered with (although now I'm not so sure any more...).
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zardgiv 3723 days ago
What should be suspect now, and something worth reflecting on, is the narrative being pushed by them since that's usually how "lying with statistics" works.
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zardgiv 3722 days ago
Amazing. I read some more, and Moldbug's posted approvingly about American Renaissance! It's too perfect.
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