Itâs a bad article, but it seems more important to me that the central accusation that they invited a lot of fascists and fash-adjacent people is correct.
I donât think âManifest invited a bunch of fascistsâ is an accurate statement. The âfash-adjacentâ part is hard to operationalize, since like, IDK, Scott Alexander has spent a bunch of time arguing with fascists, which in some sense makes him âfash-adjacentâ, but excluding him on that basis seems quite bad.
I do think some more of those people bought tickets, but anyone could buy a ticket to Manifest. I do think itâs important to think about aggregation effects like this, and the loss of control thatâs associated with doing a fully openly-ticketed event like this is one reason why Iâve historically been hesitant to run openly-ticketed events, though I think it went pretty surprisingly well for LessOnline.
Itâs a bad article, but it seems more important to me that the central accusation that they invited a lot of fascists and fash-adjacent people is correct.
I donât think âManifest invited a bunch of fascistsâ is an accurate statement. The âfash-adjacentâ part is hard to operationalize, since like, IDK, Scott Alexander has spent a bunch of time arguing with fascists, which in some sense makes him âfash-adjacentâ, but excluding him on that basis seems quite bad.
I do think some more of those people bought tickets, but anyone could buy a ticket to Manifest. I do think itâs important to think about aggregation effects like this, and the loss of control thatâs associated with doing a fully openly-ticketed event like this is one reason why Iâve historically been hesitant to run openly-ticketed events, though I think it went pretty surprisingly well for LessOnline.