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- Curtis Yarvin, creator of Urbit, disinvited from presenting at the Strange Loop conference on programming languages after Steve Klabnik and perhaps other part

- Curtis Yarvin, creator of Urbit, disinvited from presenting at the Strange Loop conference on programming languages after Steve Klabnik and perhaps other participants threatened to withdraw over Yarvin's political blog posts.

badsock 10y ago
Doing something socially objectionable invites social consequences. I bet that Kony 2012 guy got uninvited from speaking engagements too.
- mreiland 10y ago
  Doesn't mean it's right, it just means people are assholes. Lets we forget, not believing in slavery was socially objectionable not that long ago.
prospero 10y ago
Calling other races well-suited to slavery isn't political, it's hate speech.
- tajen 10y ago
  It's up to a juge to decide that. If the population decides, it's called lynching.
  - badsock 10y ago
    Absolute hyperbole. Lynching is when someone is killed. Dropping a speaker from a conference schedule isn't murder.
steveklabnik 10y ago
NB: I was never participating, so I could have never threatened to withdrawl.