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Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf by moldbugisvile on Thursday March 24, 2016 @09:36AM (#11352578)
But Marxists, they're cool right? Edgy even! If you want to hold these standards and exclude someone like Moldbug, fine by me. But if you do that there, do it consistently.

Newsflash: Che Guevera executed blacks, gays, nuns, and more in cold blood; his face is now considered a bland apparel decoration. Mao and Stalin and Pol Pot and Mengistu and many others killed and caused the deaths of 10s of millions of human beings, far more than Nazis could hope for. Marxism has never gone out of fashion on the left, and prominent tech speakers display their Marxist colors proudly.

Who will boycott them and stand for the memory of the millions killed in Marxist suppression, genocide, and famine?

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Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf by zahmahkibo on Thursday March 24, 2016 @04:32PM (#11356172)
I gotta say, this is some next-level red baiting.
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Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf by 13thLetter on Thursday March 24, 2016 @10:21PM (#11358097)
What was incorrect about his statement?
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Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf by zahmahkibo on Friday March 25, 2016 @12:59AM (#11358562)
It is two thousand and sixteen in the year of our Lord. Redbaiting doesn't work any more; McCarthy is death. Screaming "BUT WILL SOMEONE JUST THINK ABOUT THE VILE, VILE COMMUNISTS?" at every turn to suppress dissent no longer works. It is an evasionist tactic.
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Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf by 13thLetter on Friday March 25, 2016 @02:23AM (#11358740)
You've missed the point. Namely: If one person's semi-trollish advocacy of monarchy under a pseudonym several years ago means he's too dangerous to be allowed to speak at a tech conference, then surely other people's absolutely sincere advocacy of Communism under their own names, today, would make them even more dangerous, and they should also be barred from speaking... right?

If not, why not?

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Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf by zahmahkibo on Friday March 25, 2016 @09:19AM (#11359836)
Because communism isn't more dangerous than Fascism
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