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Thanks for the lecture. How does it relate to the comment I made? Sorry, it's not clear to me.

I didn't personally participate in cancelling this person. In fact, I agreed with the point he made in the article. I'm just not sure he didn't do it.

Are you saying I shouldn't have an opinion on that part?

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You can have whatever opinion you want, but don't confuse "sounds credible" with evidence. From the sidelines, you don't know enough to judge either way. Saying "I don't know" is the only accurate position. Everything beyond that is just speculation - and speculation is exactly what keeps cancel culture alive.

The same with OP's post.

So far, I see that this post caused quite a few forks, the opposite of what the author asked for.

I don't have a solution.

I think as a man who runs conferences you shouldn't sleep with people who attend them. Or any other things like that, for that matter.

Should you be cancelled for that? No. But humans are humans.

There is no solution to this. Courts are also wrong all the time (look at OJ) and victims of SA almost never see justice.

The answer is: we don't know the truth.

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