Effective Altruists: look, we *tried* to invite nice people as well as the huge racists we knew were huge racists when we invited them. What? Exclude the racists? But they're so *interesting!*
Wow, the commenters seem surprisingly…not ok with the guest choices. Especially Hannania
They are more defensive in the other thread: …effectivealtruism.org/…/my-experience-at-the-con… Maybe its because the HBDers managed to control the framing with the other thread? Or because the other thread systematically refuses to name names, but this thread actually did name them and the conversation shifted out of a framing that could be controlled with tone-policing and freeze peach appeals into actual concrete discussion of specific blatantly racists statements (its hard to argue someone isn’t racist and transphobic when they have articles with titles like “Why Do I Hate Pronouns More Than Genocide?”).
that habryka dude sure is quite something (and by something i think he’s a fucking shithead):