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> “the organizers intentionally acted cruelly in an act of racist vindictiveness out of sheer malice“ The characterisation of those actions as vindictive seems
by nailer 3y ago
> “the organizers intentionally acted cruelly in an act of racist vindictiveness out of sheer malice“
The characterisation of those actions as vindictive seems accurate, but I don’t think the blog post is stating that the actions were racist, rather that it was a missed opportunity to represent the wider population at rustconf.
Whether you think that’s good or tokenisation is a separate matter, the point is that the article is not claiming that downgrading the speaker was racism.
- arp242 3y agoThe sentence "Systems have memory and biases. If the people that make up the system don't work to fight against these, they are perpetuated" in particular came off as more than merely "missed opportunity", although "racism" is probably too strong of a word too, but I don't know of anything else that fits better. Either way, I don't really see why it would be vindictive either? Maybe I missed some information somewhere, but I've seen nothing that would indicate anything other than the most likely explanation: they rescheduled because they assumed JeanHeyd just didn't care as he indicated he didn't want to do a keynote at first, some petty infighting, and all of this communicated this in a bad and chaotic way.
- nailer 3y agoYep I think we see it pretty similarly regarding the first paragraph. Re the vindictive part: I read it as someone having a personal issue with JeanHeyd and downgrading him as punishment.