As far as I can tell, there’s no disagreement in this thread that Hanania held some repugnant views in the early 2010s. In terms of deciding whether to shun him in the present, it seems like the key issues are
(a) what the statue of limitations should be
and
(b) whether he said something repugnant recently enough that the statue of limitations would not apply
Perhaps you believe that Hanania’s early-2010s comments somehow reveal a “more authentic” version of his beliefs that he’s hiding from the public nowadays. That seems unlikely to me, given the more recent posts of his that I linked elsewhere in this thread. If he still held his early-2010s beliefs secretly, I don’t think he would argue against them so explicitly now.
Even the Hanania article you linked to entitled “Diversity Is Our Strength” contains as one of its core arguments the suggestion that Hispanic immigrants might be won over to his support for “war with civil rights law” by “comparing them favorably to genderfluid liberals and urban blacks”.
The next sentence links to one of his own tweets about how “selling immigrants on hating liberals would be the easiest thing in the world”, featuring a video of Muslims protesting in favour of LGBT book bans.
Perhaps you don’t find this style of politics repugnant, perhaps it even represents a marginal improvement on his prior beliefs, but I don’t think it’s one EA should be endorsing.
As far as I can tell, there’s no disagreement in this thread that Hanania held some repugnant views in the early 2010s. In terms of deciding whether to shun him in the present, it seems like the key issues are
(a) what the statue of limitations should be
and
(b) whether he said something repugnant recently enough that the statue of limitations would not apply
Perhaps you believe that Hanania’s early-2010s comments somehow reveal a “more authentic” version of his beliefs that he’s hiding from the public nowadays. That seems unlikely to me, given the more recent posts of his that I linked elsewhere in this thread. If he still held his early-2010s beliefs secretly, I don’t think he would argue against them so explicitly now.
Even the Hanania article you linked to entitled “Diversity Is Our Strength” contains as one of its core arguments the suggestion that Hispanic immigrants might be won over to his support for “war with civil rights law” by “comparing them favorably to genderfluid liberals and urban blacks”.
The next sentence links to one of his own tweets about how “selling immigrants on hating liberals would be the easiest thing in the world”, featuring a video of Muslims protesting in favour of LGBT book bans.
Perhaps you don’t find this style of politics repugnant, perhaps it even represents a marginal improvement on his prior beliefs, but I don’t think it’s one EA should be endorsing.
(Agreed that I wouldn’t want EA endorsing this style of politics)