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^ Exactly. And the backlash against "PC" is yet another overreaction. We're in a time where voices that didn't command respect in the past now have vastly more

^ Exactly. And the backlash against "PC" is yet another overreaction. We're in a time where voices that didn't command respect in the past now have vastly more access to an audience. On the balance, I think this is a really good thing. However, we haven't yet evolved an ability to reliably sift the real complaints from the unfounded ones. This, of course, is not a black and white distinction. From what little I know, this seems like an incident where a hasty decision was made, without much of a process. Hopefully, as a community we'll learn and improve, but with the maturity to do so without discrediting the very real issues of diversity and inclusion in tech.

vertex-four 10y ago
> From what little I know, this seems like an incident where a hasty decision was made, without much of a process. Interestingly, the vast majority of the time this happens at conferences, it happens "the other way" - some minority member is entirely ignored because people don't really understand that shitty things happen to people and/or don't believe an incident was as bad as it sounds, without having witnessed it. (Mostly because nothing that bad has ever happened to them at a conference, failing to realise that different people have different experiences.) Codes of conduct along with a reasonable review process before doing anything, as have been implemented at various conferences, hacker camps, and other tech-related public spaces, and by large community projects, mostly ensure this sort of issue - lack of review - doesn't happen so often, in both directions.