It seems like a garbage and incredibly badly fact checked article. I broadly don’t think it’s a good use of time to read bad faith hit pieces, and prefer them not to be on the forum (though no fault on you for posting it! There’s also an argument that it’s good to be aware)
It’s 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 don’t think “Manifest invited a bunch of fascists” is an accurate statement. The “fash-adjacent” 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 “fash-adjacent”, 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 it’s important to think about aggregation effects like this, and the loss of control that’s associated with doing a fully openly-ticketed event like this is one reason why I’ve historically been hesitant to run openly-ticketed events, though I think it went pretty surprisingly well for LessOnline.
It seems like a garbage and incredibly badly fact checked article. I broadly don’t think it’s a good use of time to read bad faith hit pieces, and prefer them not to be on the forum (though no fault on you for posting it! There’s also an argument that it’s good to be aware)
It’s 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 don’t think “Manifest invited a bunch of fascists” is an accurate statement. The “fash-adjacent” 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 “fash-adjacent”, 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 it’s important to think about aggregation effects like this, and the loss of control that’s associated with doing a fully openly-ticketed event like this is one reason why I’ve historically been hesitant to run openly-ticketed events, though I think it went pretty surprisingly well for LessOnline.