“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop”

Re:“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop” by twoodfin on Sunday June 07, 2015 @08:37PM (#9676867)

So if Strange Loop were a conference with presenters chosen totally on technical merit, you would still prefer they dis-invite a presenter with Yarvin's racial views? I think you're arguing that it's a trade-off regardless (sure) but do you have any idea where a political line is, Left or Right, where we should start expressing disapproval when those on the wrong side are excluded?

I'll take your word for it that Yarvin is way on the far side of any such line, but I'm still pretty curious about roughly where it is these days.

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Re:“A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop” by tptacek on Sunday June 07, 2015 @08:47PM (#9676895)

I don't know how to answer your first question.

I'll leave it at this. If I was Strange Loop's organizer, what I might have written is:

I don't know exactly how to articulate where our line is on providing a stage and a microphone to people with ideas I find repellent. I've never been in a position to need to draw that line. I'm not interested in spending a lot of time surveying it further. For now, it suffices to say that wherever the line is, advocacy for apartheid and genetic predisposition to slavery crosses it.

Incidentally, the use upthread of the term "Stalinist" is telling. Yes: if Yarvin had been a Stalinist, I do think we'd be having the same discussion, Yarvin's views seeming approximately as far to the right as "Stalinism" would put him to the left.

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