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Go to a Trump rally and tell this to a "Black Lives Matter" supporter, I dare you.
I'm sorry, did you take that at face value? I thought it was so over the top and ridiculous that people would get that it was sarcasm, but I guess I still have a lot to learn. My bad, sometimes someone's satire is just someone else's actual thoughts...
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Mostly likely referring to Steve Klabnik https://archive.is/BtDaA
Klabnik himself being influenced by Marxism and committed to overthrowing the democratic state, presumably through armed revolution: https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/514125493663436800 Communism has killed millions and millions of people yet its advocates don't get blacklisted for wrongthink. And despite Klabnik's efforts to police the ideas of tech speakers, his chosen software licenses don't prohibit use of…
Your post is horrifically misleading.
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Given Yarvin's Jewish, my guess is he's not a white supremacist.
Who is Yarvin? How is that relevant? I am not talking about a specific person, I am talking about the argument being made for accepting everyone no matter their "belief".
"Include all! White supremacists, non-white... If a few people (say non-white) feel uncomfortable and don't want to come, we're OK with that 100%! Everyone should feel included! Racists, homophobes... Respect the beliefs of everyone, like believing there is a god, or that white people are superior, or believing you are being discriminated, or believing people will insult you or assault you at a whim for who you are,…
Given Yarvin's Jewish, my guess is he's not a white supremacist.
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Klabnik himself being influenced by Marxism and committed to overthrowing the democratic state, presumably through armed revolution: https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/514125493663436800 Communism has killed millions and millions of people yet its advocates don't get blacklisted for wrongthink. And despite Klabnik's efforts to police the ideas of tech speakers, his chosen software licenses don't prohibit use of…
He's an anarchist of some sort, just like many. Anarchists generally want to replace the violent top down nation-state with bottom-up democratic forms. Real democracy, not fake doublespeak democracy where no one feels like their voice matters. Your post is horrifically misleading.
One thing that belonging to a political fringe has taught me, is that either you decide to live your life in constant conflict, or you learn to ignore the politics of a person when it has no direct impact on a given situation, even when it to you is utterly distasteful. The latter leads to a far happier life. And often you'll find even people who hold views you find offensive can be perfectly nice people most of the…
Exactly. Orgs that don't accept "diversity of tactics" lose a lot of time to infighting.
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He's an anarchist of some sort, just like many. Anarchists generally want to replace the violent top down nation-state with bottom-up democratic forms. Real democracy, not fake doublespeak democracy where no one feels like their voice matters. Your post is horrifically misleading.
He says the single word which best describes him is small c communist, so at best this sort of anarchism is a violent tactic, and historically a very unwise one. And would be a quickly lethal one in the well armed US.
Anyway, anarchists generally strive towards communism, if that means an advanced future society where you're free from boss-subordination, and some don't have to be "poor" to scare everyone else into obedience.
And anarchists don't bomb people, unlike adherents of every other political philosophy in the last decades. Certainly the US is always bombing people. Even Bernie Sanders supports it.
If your conference will dis-invite / "de-platform" people based on their opinion about topic {foo}, you are in fact hosting a conference about {foo} , regardless of what your name, official agenda, or spokespeople say. Kudos to LambdaConf for actually keeping on focus in the face of dissent.
I mean, okay, maybe, but that just means that they'd be hosting a conference about "nazis suck" and hey, I'm okay with that. That's a message I can get behind.
So when someone decides to hold a dev conference but chooses to disallow any gay/lesbian developers, is that also totally okay?
This just in: preventing people to come to your conferences because of their beliefs is actually inadvisable and really, really difficult to make good on. I don't agree with the guy's views either, but I wouldn't disinvite him just because he thinks that way. Good on LambdaConf for letting him come anyway. Many of the quotes from this piece were shockingly powerful. I'm happy I took the time to read it.
It's a code of conduct. Not a code of thought.
> It's a code of conduct. Not a code of thought. Given how most codes of conduct are written there is virtually no difference between the two. If a code of conduct in a community applies everywhere its members might be on the internet or in the real world, then they are not free to say what they want publicly anymore. If one can be excluded from an opensoure community because of a totally unrelated comment on some ob…