4 ms·
Oh, blanket statements. If you are against discrimination, always, you must then be opposed to Horvath’s creation of a series of talks that discriminate against
by alanh 13y ago
Oh, blanket statements. If you are against discrimination, always, you must then be opposed to Horvath’s creation of a series of talks that discriminate against men? It’s explicitly woman-only. The only discrimination that has demonstrably occurred at GitHub is the anti-male selection criteria of Passion Projects.
Shouldn’t have to say this, but I’m merely pointing out that you probably aren’t saying what you think you are saying, and I am neither condoning nor condemning Passion Projects, GitHub, or Julia.
- choult 13y agoYes, as it happens, I am against both negative and positive discrimination. But until I have a better alternative to the latter for improving access to our industry then I have to accept it as a mechanism to help overcome the legacy of the former.
- intortus 13y agoNothing makes me roll my eyes harder than reverse-discrimination rebuttals. Inevitably the community focuses all its energy on character assassination to avoid sniffing its own stench.
- jpwright 13y agoHaving a speaker series featuring women in tech is not "anti-male discrimination". Maybe it would be if there weren't 1000+ other tech conferences where the majority of speakers are men. How someone can say stuff like this in 2014 honestly baffles me.
- alanh 13y agoIt’s obviously "anti-male discrimination," by definition. It’s just not evil or unwarranted. Discrimination is not a synonym for hate; it basically means selection criteria or bias, which obviously applies. For pete’s sake. Are you so eager to prove you’re a good guy that you’re going to paint everyone else as a bigot?