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There is something that a person could believe such that I wouldn't attend Manifest if they spoke there [voting public]
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ie is there a thing, such that if they believed it, regardless of their other work, you wouldn't attend if they were speaking.

or, for any belief can you imagine either that you wouldn't care or that they could have done work good enough that you'd attend anyway

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I’d go even if they had a panel consisting of a tankie, a nazi, a pedo, and an IRS agent

I responded in what I think is the spirit of the question. If I were being pedantic, "poorly framed" might be more accurate. Since I don't have direct access to anyone's internal beliefs but my own (and maybe even that is debatable), I have to assess others' beliefs based on their actions. There are certainly actions a person could perform (speech and otherwise) such that I would not attend an event where they were speaking.

(and so I don't care at all about the internal beliefs to which I have no access. someone can believe any abhorrent thing they want and that's just fine if I can't tell!)

@jcb Good point, yeah. I'm much more concerned about actions than beliefs for that reason.

I personally draw the line at a history of spreading hate speech of any kind - if someone's spreading that, they don't deserve a platform at an event like this, IMO.

I assume the title is meant to say "Manifest"?

@jcb Oh sorry I tried to fix that