While My experience at the controversial Manifest 2024 (and several related posts) was (were) not explicitly about policies or politicians, I think it’s largely the underlying political themes that made it so heated.
Manifest was advertised on Forum and the controversial speakers were IIRC largely advertised and invited guests. Some of the talks were at least adjacent to the objected-to views.
That seems a significantly tighter connection than “someone in EA associated with someone who has some right wing views.”
Thanks! Yeah, I thought maybe this was what Larks was referring to. Putting to one side the question of whether that was a valuable discussion or not, I wouldn’t put that in the same category as OP’s post. The Manifest discussion was about whether an organisation such as Manifest should give a platform to people with views some people consider racist, OP’s post is an analysis of the policy platform of a leading candidate in what is arguably the world’s most important election. I wouldn’t describe the former discussion as ‘political’ in the same way that I would describe the OP’s post. But perhaps others see it differently?
While My experience at the controversial Manifest 2024 (and several related posts) was (were) not explicitly about policies or politicians, I think it’s largely the underlying political themes that made it so heated.
Manifest was advertised on Forum and the controversial speakers were IIRC largely advertised and invited guests. Some of the talks were at least adjacent to the objected-to views.
That seems a significantly tighter connection than “someone in EA associated with someone who has some right wing views.”
Thanks! Yeah, I thought maybe this was what Larks was referring to. Putting to one side the question of whether that was a valuable discussion or not, I wouldn’t put that in the same category as OP’s post. The Manifest discussion was about whether an organisation such as Manifest should give a platform to people with views some people consider racist, OP’s post is an analysis of the policy platform of a leading candidate in what is arguably the world’s most important election. I wouldn’t describe the former discussion as ‘political’ in the same way that I would describe the OP’s post. But perhaps others see it differently?