If Hassan had said that more recently or I was convinced he still thought that, then I would agree he should not be invited to Manifest.
My claim is that the Manifest organizers should have the right to invite him even if he’d said that more recently. But appreciate you giving your perspective, since I did ask for that (just clarifying the “agree” part).
Having said that, given that there is a very clear non-genocidal reading, I do not think it is a clear example of hate speech in quite the same sense as Hanania’s animals remark
I have some object-level views about the relative badness but my main claim is more that this isn’t a productive type of analysis for a community to end up doing, partly because it’s so inherently subjective, so I support drawing lines that help us not need to do this analysis (like “organizers are allowed to invite you either way”).
My claim is that the Manifest organizers should have the right to invite him even if he’d said that more recently. But appreciate you giving your perspective, since I did ask for that (just clarifying the “agree” part).
I have some object-level views about the relative badness but my main claim is more that this isn’t a productive type of analysis for a community to end up doing, partly because it’s so inherently subjective, so I support drawing lines that help us not need to do this analysis (like “organizers are allowed to invite you either way”).