Your comment seems reasonable, but I’m not sure there’s a world where I’m ever OK with this
“Hanania seems kinda racist but nonetheless great to invite to Manifest.”
We think someone is probably racist from public facing materials
We actively invite them to an event
I think you had reasonable reasons why you were ok with Hananiah, but didn’t directly outline your reasons for why you think the racism isn’t a deal breaking problem.
Would be interested what other people are good with this, and how they square this.
I think my reply to Nathan Young fully addresses what you’re saying here.
Specifically:
I was deliberately vague when I said “low stakes” and “material harm”, and I think it’s good that [Nathan] pointed that out while still keeping it vague (“pretty valuable”). I did think about being specific instead, but an object-level discussion of the costs and benefits of the racism taboo would probably be a derail in this thread, even though they would indeed be crucial (cruxy, I mean) to a lot of the commenters arguing here.
Even though that object-level discussion might be good to have (in some other thread, probably not here), I don’t really expect anyone to change their mind from it. Seems like I should reiterate this part again:
I think that different people just have highly divergent Overton windows, and will have to agree to disagree, and will occasionally be excluded or alienated from one another’s events.
Your comment seems reasonable, but I’m not sure there’s a world where I’m ever OK with this
“Hanania seems kinda racist but nonetheless great to invite to Manifest.”
We think someone is probably racist from public facing materials
We actively invite them to an event
I think you had reasonable reasons why you were ok with Hananiah, but didn’t directly outline your reasons for why you think the racism isn’t a deal breaking problem.
Would be interested what other people are good with this, and how they square this.
I think my reply to Nathan Young fully addresses what you’re saying here.
Specifically:
Even though that object-level discussion might be good to have (in some other thread, probably not here), I don’t really expect anyone to change their mind from it. Seems like I should reiterate this part again: