His position is that because he won't be talking about the latter at the conference it's okay for him to be there, and that is not true.
Curtis Yarvin saying he's not a racist: https://medium.com/@curtis.yarvin/why-you-should-come-to-lambdaconf-anyway-35ff8cd4fb9d#.lgxcw39pj … And here, arguing black people should be slaves: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-carlyle-matters.html …
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I literally cannot believe that I am getting people arguing that it might still be okay for him to be there. Do you know any black people?
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This is like when we made Eich quit Mozilla. There are views we have decided are unacceptable and we will ostracize you for having them.
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Think it's okay to have those views but not talk about them? That's fine, but we are on opposite sides of a moral divide. I like my side.
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Do you think if the organizers of the conference were black we'd be having this ludicrous debate? Remaining neutral is taking a stance.
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During the Eich blowup I used "what if he were a racist instead of a homophobe?" as a strawman to help prove my point.
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Apparently I gave some people in tech too much credit. Apparently racism is just another opinion.
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@seldo From 7 years ago. What you was thinking 7 years ago? -
@montogeek I sure wasn't thinking that black people deserved to be slaves, how about you? -
@seldo Me too, but everybody has a past of which are not proud. Just keep that in mind :) -
@montogeek@seldo It’s not like he’s taking down those pages or saying he regrets them. He just wants people to pretend it wasn’t him.
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@seldo After reading the 2009 blog post, I'm pretty sure he's not arguing that black people should be slaves. What makes you think he is? -
@atroche The same 2009 blog post you read. He calls it a "natural relationship". -
@seldo you realise that he's not talking about Africans and Europeans there, right, but about humans in general? And “natural” != “right”
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@seldo good lord this is so long and dull. Racism aside, I'd never want to hear a talk by this person.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@seldo So either you have not read the article or you´re just disingenuous. He is describing the worldview of Thomas Carlyle not his own - 1 more reply
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