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"I'm implying that De Goes seems to have done everything he possibly could have to synthesize drama out of this decision short of (just barely, at the point) actually endorsing Yar…

That's, uh. Wow. Quite the accusation. For starters, how does De Goes benefit from generating this drama? Most of the sponsors pulled out and he's been smeared as a racist from one…

> The whole thing seems calculated for maximum drama. We live in a culture where people have been primed to go nuclear, not just at the tiniest slight against them, but at the fain…

> The main difference is that all of those phenomenon were unidentified: the pilots never had sufficient detail to match their evidence to a real-world experience. There were no re…

> If any of what's happening here is wrong, so was the apartheid divestiture movement. Those actions by themselves are not necessarily right or wrong; it's the reason for the actio…

I'll give you Point 1, of course, but points 2-4 apply just as well to the UFO reports. Many of them were from experienced professional pilots, reported immediately after the incid…

> So I guess I don't share the principle that you seem to have, that if I don't like a conference I should simply shut up and not attend If you want to complain loudly about the co…

It's true that a problem could happen, and I'm glad the risk is being taken seriously, but a lot of these reports (if not the overwhelming majority) feel like pilots' UFO reports f…

> Similarly, it is legitimate for others to publicly express market preferences for avoiding conferences that feature him. If the anti-inclusion folks were merely "publicly express…

> Ads are fine when they help people. It's really easy to forget this. Ads can be a good thing! Anyone ever pick up Computer Shopper magazine in the '90s? It was a giant phonebook …

Well, that's the interesting question, isn't it. Google offered a high quality service for free. (Well, "free" as in they're selling eyeballs to advertisers, but, you know. Interne…

What do you think you're gaining by walking up to a white homeless man freezing on the street and explaining to him how much better his life is because of his "privilege"? If you t…

Just imagine the screaming if someone made a post about this about Muslims.

The "punching up is okay!" excuse is only useful to people who are in it for the punching. How about if nobody gets punched. Don't roll out demeaning stereotypes against any groups…

All the fascists I know are in favor of allowing people they disagree with to freely speak without risking their livelihoods.

If the stories of people missing out on job offers and so forth are true, Google did real damage to their lives and should make amends somehow. I'll freely grant that I don't know …

I agree that it would make it less funny, but the takeaway from that conclusion is that they simply shouldn't do this prank at all. A joke isn't worth harming gmail's UX like this.…

"Brogrammer"? Where did that come from?

> There's always at least a bit of racist motivation for complaints about NBA players' "egos and attitudes". Oh, is there? That's quite a harsh accusation -- it can get people inst…

"Either person B or C, depending on whether or not they are enforcing laws for the government." If there's no problem with B's behavior, the takeaway is that no one can say anythin…

Is it okay to allow a speaker who believes that capitalists should be put into labor camps?

> At exactly the point where you think this actually fucking matters when evaluating the value of those people. In that case, you must believe that Yarvin is not a racist, because …

It is so weird to see an organization handling this kind of situation in a rational and professional manner instead of instantly caving in to the mob. I'm not used to it. I keep wa…

There is an astonishing amount of self-importance going on in essays like this. People who believe they are striking a blow against fascism by not attending a functional programmin…

Especially considering that most of the people grumbling about this now are going to obediently vote the Secretary of State on whose watch it happened into the Presidency in Novemb…