PrlConf 2016 is cancelled

Post by jart » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 12:19 AM UTC

gadscab wrote: post #100

jonsterling wrote: post #63

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My belief (which you are free to disagree with!) is that the nature of Yarvin's public statements disqualifies him from acting in good faith with the broader community, at least until he has withdrawn them. I feel that each person is a whole human being, and I do not believe that someone can just leave something like "Blacks are suited to slavery, Europeans to mastery!" at the door. Even if he could, it wouldn't do a…

As a non-hypothetical: consider support for communist brutality. "My belief is that the nature of Sterling's public statements disqualifies him from acting in good faith with the broader community, at least until he has withdrawn them. I do not believe someone can leave something like: "then you will enjoy hard labor in the North, after we send all the counterrevolutionaries there!" [1] at the door. Even if he could,…

Wow. I guess people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Post by mjs » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 5:35 PM UTC

x0x0 wrote: post #114

mjs wrote: post #53

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> The program committee feel that we cannot possibly organize a workshop under the umbrella of a conference that values the free expression of racist and fascist views over the physical and emotional safety of its attendees and speakers… From reading the link, I would assume that no "racist and fascist views" will be aired or otherwise expressed at the conference: it's a technical conference, it's against the pledge…

Many (me included) consider the inclusion of such a speaker as tacit endorsement of the acceptability of such views. One of the results of holding and espousing deeply racist views should be exclusion from society.

That's a reasonable position, but that's not what the argument for cancelling the conference was.

The argument was that the speaker's presence would threaten the "physical and emotional safety of its attendees and speakers." This appears to be completely unsupported by the facts.

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