Jon Pretty

Instead, attack the ideas themselves. Argue against racism, against sexism. Argue against homophobia and transphobia. If you're employing such weak proxies for those things as John de Goes, your zeal is doing a disservice to your cause. It is not getting you closer to your goals.

People have asked me before, "why defend John?" My goal is not to defend John. I only want to do what I can to uphold the values I believe are important in the Scala community. For me, that means condemning any injustice to @Ryan_Signify or John, and equally to Jamie Allen too.

I don't see a meaningful difference between inviting a racist speaker and not rescinding that invitation once you become aware they are racist. Your wording suggests that LC was never aware of who moldbug was, which is false.

Maybe there's not a huge meaningful difference, but the problem is this moral equivalence gets applied more than once. Is there a meaningful difference between inviting one racist speaker and inviting five?

Is there a difference between a conference with five racist speakers, and a racist conference? Is there a difference between an organiser of a racist conference and a racist organiser of a conference? IS there a difference between a racist organiser and a nazi?

This sort of repeated application of moral equivalence turns a supposedly-meaningless difference into something significant, and the greying of the lines between them serves nobody's interests. I want to stick to facts, and John did not invite any racist speaker to LambdaConf.

he did not uninvite a racist speaker from lambdaconf. i have a problem with that.