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.
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.