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“Why I cancelled my ReactiveConf talk”
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#32This should be buried, and I would never invite her to speak again because she is drama . This is a trend of hyper sensitivity that requires everyone to walk on eggshells and wear kid gloves because who knows what could trigger the emotional reaction. Really, think about this - what if a company tries to do something fun, like for halloween, and buys clip-on ties for the guys and clip-on hair ties for the girls, but…
You've crossed into personal attack and made a throwaway account to create—ironically—flamewar drama of your own. Both of these are bannable offenses on Hacker News, so I've banned this account.
Make accounts to break the HN guidelines with will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't do that.
Re: “Why I cancelled my ReactiveConf talk”
#33So Eastern European. I was at an Elastic conference in Poland where there were all sorts of ads which would be considered offensive here. Like one depicting a Native American chief in full head dress spouting some vague Indian-ish proverb with a tech slant.
I hope you meant it in a good way. There's very very few good things about Eastern Europe. But the "open minded humor" and ability to both take and receive jokes that would offend others is one of the good things. Humor has rarely been "malicious" and discriminative here, like in more developed European countries or the US. EE never actually had things like slavery or serious racial discrimination (the Rroma people a…
> There's very very few good things about Eastern Europe.
The positive intent behind your comment is clear, but please don't post like this to HN. It crosses into, or closely enough resembles, nationalistic attack.
Commenting like this about the place you yourself are from isn't, unfortunately, much different in terms of toxic internet effects, so on HN, please just don't. I'm sure you can find a more precise and neutral way to say what you want to say.
Re: “Why I cancelled my ReactiveConf talk”
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope you meant it in a good way. There's very very few good things about Eastern Europe. But the "open minded humor" and ability to both take and receive jokes that would offend others is one of the good things. Humor has rarely been "malicious" and discriminative here, like in more developed European countries or the US. EE never actually had things like slavery or serious racial discrimination (the Rroma people a…
> There's very very few good things about Eastern Europe. The positive intent behind your comment is clear, but please don't post like this to HN. It crosses into, or closely enough resembles, nationalistic attack. Commenting like this about the place you yourself are from isn't, unfortunately, much different in terms of toxic internet effects, so on HN, please just don't. I'm sure you can find a more precise and neu…
I have no intent whatsoever to avoid "toxic internet effects" or "nationalistic attack". There's room for more love in the world, just as there's room for more hate, the latter is just as useful.
Ironically, your comment shows exactly that you "don't grok", or simply don't enjoy, the kind of sometimes intentionally toxico-aggressive humor I was referring to ;)
Sometime you incite a bit of hate and generate some toxic effects on purpose just 'cause it's... fun. And it's perfectly OK as long as you sincerely 100% lacks any aim/purpose/agenda and make sure nobody gains anything from it (it's OK if everyone loses equally from it :P).
EDIT +: And it helps people chill, relax, and live in peace, kind of like a "hate vaccine"... as long as you're surrounded by people that are not too sensitive to "grok it". I think in general, worldwide, people need some "hate vaccination" to desensitize them a bit and decrease worldwide volatility. We're becoming too edgy and close to the red button if we don't realize there's "good" in any kind of "evil" attitude.