can someone explain this in plain English? I read the tweets but I don't get it. Thanks.
Contributing to OSS considered “dangerous advice”
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#12I don't understand what the problem was with her advice. Was it because she didn't start with "in my opinion" or some other qualifier?
There isn't any problem with her advice. There is a problem with the hosts. The suggestion that encouraging contributions to OSS might expose someone to being harmed in some way is absurd. You may as well say nobody should go to the grocery store - there might be a racist hiding in the frozen food section!
I always had my suspicions about Mrs. Paul!
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#13"microaggressions" and "othering". What is this nonsense. Is this how people behave? Why is this considered acceptable? Someone musters the time and courage to come speak freely at your event, and this is how they are treated? Maybe all meetups should just be a cutout of Ghandi at the podium with a static code cheat sheet on the projector to ensure nobody is offended.
>"microaggressions" and "othering". What is this nonsense. Is this how people behave?
Heh, first time on Twitter?
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#14I suppose this is the natural consequence of making "microagressions" a thing. What a time to be alive.
I think microaggressions are definitely a thing, but the term is being misused here.
I'll go further: it's very common for abusive people to intentionally misappropriate the vocabulary of people they abuse. This ranges from "telling me to clean up after myself is a microagression" to "we're going to name our fascist party socialist LOL."
Someone's waving their power around, plain and simple.
EDIT: also, this thread is going to be baaaaaad.
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#15can someone explain this in plain English? I read the tweets but I don't get it. Thanks.
You very clearly do get it, since you posted it to HN.
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#16can someone explain this in plain English? I read the tweets but I don't get it. Thanks.
She suggested people 'contribute to OSS'; the organisers told her it was against the event's code of conduct because it was a form of 'micro-aggression' and 'othering' (whatever that means).
It took me a while to work out what the problem was too - but you need to read the screenshots in the first tweet, or at least the last one. (I clicked and the first one opened without indication of more, and seemed innocuous.)
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#17I'm flagging this because the inevitable HN thread will consist only of people tripping over themselves to mock the people involved, and zero serious discussion.
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#19who is funding the meetup?
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#20can someone explain this in plain English? I read the tweets but I don't get it. Thanks.
Speaker said something very innocuous to the everyday, reasonable and sane observer, but someone took offense because they're too sensitive and is using some Code of Conduct as their "reasoning."
While I completely agree there is aggression in the tech world, and much of it aimed at women, this context-less nit-picking is getting out of hand. CoC's shouldn't be used as a weapon against well-meaning people who actually did nothing wrong.