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I hope the guy who wrote this post didn't choose to disinvite those two just because they had unfashionable views on social justice. Morality /=/ fashion.
Reading the rest of the story, and presuming the statements are true, I doubt the decision was made based solely on abstract political opinion.
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There are several reasons to believe a blog post over a told-in-person anecdote; for one, this is more or less an open forum with no time limits or constraints on research. This is when combined with the fact that these possibly-incriminating* details of the story were provided voluntarily, which generally adds credence to a claim. Until an opposing blog post appears telling the opposite story (which makes perennial…
I'm sympathetic to the author but now I'm finding the epistemology here interesting to talk about. Firstly I generally think of information provided voluntarily as being more suspect than that which is elicited, coerced or happenstance. Think of the criminal who under questioning volunteers to "help" the cops by putting them on someone else's trail with a false accusation. (Made to seem offhand, of course.) This appl…
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I'm sympathetic to the author but now I'm finding the epistemology here interesting to talk about. Firstly I generally think of information provided voluntarily as being more suspect than that which is elicited, coerced or happenstance. Think of the criminal who under questioning volunteers to "help" the cops by putting them on someone else's trail with a false accusation. (Made to seem offhand, of course.) This appl…
While in that particular case, volunteered information seems suspect, I would argue that is only so because the person providing it is already under questioning for something. The would be the exception rather than the rule, since in the vast majority of cases, no attention is the desired scenario for a person who has done someone else wrong. And generally speaking, the easiest way to achieve zero attention is by not…