If you murder three random people at the conference, then what you did is relevant to the conference.
How about if I murder three people outside the conference?
However, if you have happen to murder three people in the past (maybe was already convicted and served your time), it should be irrelevant to the conference. Right?
If I serve my sentence, express no remorse and threaten to do so again then it's not really irrelevant, no.
if you have racist opinions but in the conference keep them to yourself, I don't see how it can be relevant
When you put a racist on stage, people don't just see the presentation that person is giving - they see that being a racist doesn't prevent you from professional success. They see that there's no social cost to expressing abhorrent opinions. It allows people to feel more comfortable in their own racist behaviour. You can't separate someone's public behaviour outside a conference from their presence at the conference - they're inherently tied together by virtue of being the same person.
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Re: What is wrong with you?
Date: 2017-02-27 11:52 am (UTC)How about if I murder three people outside the conference?
If I serve my sentence, express no remorse and threaten to do so again then it's not really irrelevant, no.
When you put a racist on stage, people don't just see the presentation that person is giving - they see that being a racist doesn't prevent you from professional success. They see that there's no social cost to expressing abhorrent opinions. It allows people to feel more comfortable in their own racist behaviour. You can't separate someone's public behaviour outside a conference from their presence at the conference - they're inherently tied together by virtue of being the same person.