Ditto. Specially because they're focusing on the executives of those organisations, i.e. the people with actual decision power. That's the right way to do it.

"Hold people accountable or else we will hold you accountable"

Secondary sanctions from a dino convention. Based.

When you're a global criminal organization, you ensure immunity by blackmailing and/or extorting every single person in a position of power as much as possible. There's a reason these monsters have gotten away with it--and continue to get away with it--for so damn long

pretty much. Basically everyone who is of note is implicated in the files. It's ridiculous

He did get his start in education. Given a job he was unqualified for by [traitorous] former AG Bill Barr's father (who also wrote creepy pedo sci fi novels)

That fucker ruined Linguistics too — he was in friendly terms with Noam Chomsky.

Personally I am not aware on how much Chomsky should be blamed for this association; it's possible Epstein was simply using him. But even in the hypothesis Chomsky is innocent, it stinks.

Sadly there's a lot of intelectuals that were involved, Lawrence Krauss, Noem Chomsky, Steven Hawking just scratching the surface.

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I for one, enjoyed your pun.

In case you missed it, these are people who knew Epstein was an unrepentant child molester. Epstein was proven guilty in court, made no statements of remorse, and these scientists continued to validate and support his behavior for years after, up until his death. If he had accepted responsibility for his crimes, I would feel differently about people who decide to associate with him while he spent the rest of his life in prison. But I doubt these scientists would have. The reason they liked Jeffrey was because he got away with everything. They admired his ability to rape on an industrial scale without consequences.

Nobody should ever be guilty by association. However, nobody is entitled to be a respected dino scientist. That is something you earn, and I see no reason not to include their feelings about child rape when discussing whether most attendees would feel comfortable with them at a conference.

Since justice ain't working people are taking it upon themselves.

Nah. The guilt by association fallacy is more like:

• [P1] Hitler ate bread.
• [P2] Hitler was a bad person.
• [C] Thus if you eat bread, you're as bad as Hitler.

That is not even remotely close to what the DinoCon is doing. If we interpret their actions as an argument, it's more like:

• [P1] Knowingly associating yourself with a bad person makes you a bad person.
• [P2] Those people knowingly associating themselves with Epstein, a bad person.
• [C] Thus those people are bad people.

You might disagree with the first premise (it's a moral premise, so it depends on your values), but the argument is perfectly logical.

Socializing with known child molesters is beyond the pale. If the government isn't going to deal with them properly one of the better options for the rest of us is to exile them from society. Anyone that's not on board with this can fuck off right along with them.

I normally agree with you about guilt by association, but these people are currently an IMMINENT threat to every living thing on the planet. I am truly ok with a small amount of collateral damage to excise the cancer before it STRANGLES US TO DEATH. They control everything. Every mechanism of power or change. We cannot allow them the very obvious influence over the extensive investigation that their position afford. We need to purge our power structures of this before anything else can be done about it.

At some point it comes down to incentives, to not shun such terrible people just helps increase their influence. Accepting their money makes it look like you think what they did isn't bad. Terms like greenwashing exists just highlight this problem, we have to make it clear it's unacceptable to behave like that and that you can not buy your way out of consequences.

It's basic risk assessment

Literally everything else you're talking about is solved by ensuring due process is followed

I never thought I would see pedophilia become a political issue.

The MAGA cult is real.

My online friend lists have been through the chopping block recently, a good society must have intolerance for the intolerant and devious.

There's zero excuse for an adult to sexually assault a child, or to have known and kept the secret.

That is a poor response to DinoCon’s post. The con does not appear to be banning anybody who was named in the files, but is banning those who corresponded with Epstein's organisation after his crimes had become public knowledge.

The man trafficked and raped children. If you want to email the billionaire pedophile to look for fossils on one of his rape-properties, you are a deplorable cunt and being banned from a con is the smallest punishment you are owed.

This guy goes on to say that this is virtue signalling? How? The con is banning people. It is seemingly backing up its post, not basking in the idea of being anti-pedophile. It is making this decision known to the public, as the Epstein files have become a pervasive part of our lives right now. Knowing a person linked to a pedophile rapist may be attending a con could affect attendees, so getting the word out is smart.

I did a bit of research. As near as I can tell, there’s one (one!) paleontologist listed in the Epstein Files as “having contact with the Epstein organization,” Dr. Jack Horner.

What does "I did a bit of research" even mean? Couldn't it be that DinoCon was told about other cases that he is not aware of?

Banning people for being in the Epstein Files is stupid.

Sounds like a typical straw man argument to me. "engaged in correspondence" is not the same as "being in the files".

I’m in the Epstein Files

Maybe he felt that it applied to himself and therefore did not read the announcement carefully.

after the conviction

Yeah no pity there.

Here's the cool thing, I don't give a single fuck why you were communicating with the guy. If you had a relationship with him, you get thrown in the wood chipper. After every single person is thrown in, we can sort through the pile of viscera and determine guilt.

We CANNOT allow these people to remain in the position of power they are in for the duration of the obviously EXTENSIVE investigation that is needed.