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I find stuff like that as annoying as you, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the current debacle. The current thing is purely caused by good old fashione
by twic 3y ago
I find stuff like that as annoying as you, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the current debacle. The current thing is purely caused by good old fashioned power politics between factions with different technical ideas. There is no "woke" angle at all.
- Mikhail_K 3y agoI think there is. If they had normal process for openly discussing disagreements and making decisions, instead of shady rumour- and backstabbing-based one, none of this would have happened.
- becausepc 3y agoThe “woke” angle was raised later on. JT brought up it up: “It was JeanHeyd who called Rust out for having no Black representation among Rust conference speakers. Rightly so, as both the Rust organization and the conferences had little to no Black representation. When I saw an organization that not only could act so coldly to an expert in the field, but also to one who was a vocal critic of Rust's lack of diversity, it was hard not to see the additional context. Systems have memory and biases. If the people that make up the system don't work to fight against these, they are perpetuated. As my buddy Aman pointed out, the context that this would have also been the first keynote by a person of color at RustConf should not be lost here.” https://www.jntrnr.com/why-i-left-rust/ https://www.jntrnr.com/why-i-left-rust/ I would have bet that if JeanHeyd was white, the issue would die out by now.