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Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference

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Re: Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference

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> "To spell it out why this conference generated fake women speakers," Orosz alleges, it was "because the organizer wants big names and it probably seemed like an easy way to address their diversity concerns. Incredibly lazy."

In an ideal world, Orosz thought about that sentence immediately after uttering it, and had a realisation.

Of course she didn't, though :(

Re: Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference

#12
> "To spell it out why this conference generated fake women speakers," Orosz alleges, it was "because the organizer wants big names and it probably seemed like an easy way to address their diversity concerns. Incredibly lazy."

Well this is what you get if you impose such artificial requirements like forced diversity.

Edit: People are offended like if there aren't any other groups of people who base their business models on diversity. This guy has done it poorly, so it's visible, hundreds of others do it better, and you don't even notice this happens.

Re: Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference

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post #5

So they got what they wanted. A store is inclusive because everyone can enter it. A conference is inclusive only if you drag every type of person in by force, faking it if it didn’t work out. “Otherwise it’s not inclusive and I’m not participating”. Isn’t that pure nonsense.

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Re: Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference

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post #5

So they got what they wanted. A store is inclusive because everyone can enter it. A conference is inclusive only if you drag every type of person in by force, faking it if it didn’t work out. “Otherwise it’s not inclusive and I’m not participating”. Isn’t that pure nonsense.

I'm having trouble parsing this comment. Who got what they wanted?

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Re: Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference

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post #11

> "To spell it out why this conference generated fake women speakers," Orosz alleges, it was "because the organizer wants big names and it probably seemed like an easy way to address their diversity concerns. Incredibly lazy." In an ideal world, Orosz thought about that sentence immediately after uttering it, and had a realisation. Of course she didn't, though :(

Gergély is the Hungarian version of Gregor and therefore usually male - so "he" or "they", but definitely not "she"...

Re: Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference

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> "To spell it out why this conference generated fake women speakers," Orosz alleges, it was "because the organizer wants big names and it probably seemed like an easy way to address their diversity concerns. Incredibly lazy." Well this is what you get if you impose such artificial requirements like forced diversity. Edit: People are offended like if there aren't any other groups of people who base their business mod…

Nope it's absolutely a YOU problem if you decide to defraud your clients and your speakers. No matter the reason if you are the one defrauding people it's your fucking fault.

Re: Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference

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> "To spell it out why this conference generated fake women speakers," Orosz alleges, it was "because the organizer wants big names and it probably seemed like an easy way to address their diversity concerns. Incredibly lazy." Well this is what you get if you impose such artificial requirements like forced diversity. Edit: People are offended like if there aren't any other groups of people who base their business mod…

Is it "forced diversity" if speakers would just rather not speak at a conference that doesn't make an effort to align with their ideals i.e. doesn't attempt to be diverse?
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