I mean, did you see what happened last year? By the end of it, the LambaConf organizers had gone beyond incoherent blog posts and had graduated to defending their actions with diagrams that could've come straight from the Time Cube website. An equally incoherent CoC from them this time around isn't surprising.
Hilarious. I thought this would be an article about someone finding out how worthless and insipid corporate America is and how HR departments aid and abet the abusive sociopaths.
Instead, I am treated to some bs "but muh feelz" about racism. Let me tell you something: There isn't one person alive who isn't racist. It's not even a dialog worth having because except for the crowd who are perenially insulted or put upon by every last perceived slight that exists in this world, NOBODY CARES!
Do you want to know why nobody cares? Because life is cruel, it is brutal, and it is short. And you had better get used to the idea of being tough and forget about stupid excuses about whatever it is holding you back if you expect to live to old age and do anything remotely worthwhile with your stupid life.
What's most interesting is that the folks running LC were told by at least a few parties they needed to tighten up their CoC so as to protect people from abuse, if they wanted to avoid further issues.
Their response was to codify the unrelated "I'm protecting religious interests" response from last year and offer it directly in the CoC (note: there was never a complaint about religious interests or even conservatism levied to LC, it was protesting a speaker notorious for promoting racist ideologies).
What's most stunning is the gag clause you agree to. What conference in the history of open tech conferences has decided to ban all conversation or reporting a about the goings on internally?
It's not just a CoC in defense of abuse and invites dangerous situations, but it then goes on to stifle free speech about the proceedings on the grounds that it is protecting free speech!
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 27.3 ms ] threadAnyways, pretty typical for HN.
Instead, I am treated to some bs "but muh feelz" about racism. Let me tell you something: There isn't one person alive who isn't racist. It's not even a dialog worth having because except for the crowd who are perenially insulted or put upon by every last perceived slight that exists in this world, NOBODY CARES!
Do you want to know why nobody cares? Because life is cruel, it is brutal, and it is short. And you had better get used to the idea of being tough and forget about stupid excuses about whatever it is holding you back if you expect to live to old age and do anything remotely worthwhile with your stupid life.
Their response was to codify the unrelated "I'm protecting religious interests" response from last year and offer it directly in the CoC (note: there was never a complaint about religious interests or even conservatism levied to LC, it was protesting a speaker notorious for promoting racist ideologies).
What's most stunning is the gag clause you agree to. What conference in the history of open tech conferences has decided to ban all conversation or reporting a about the goings on internally?
It's not just a CoC in defense of abuse and invites dangerous situations, but it then goes on to stifle free speech about the proceedings on the grounds that it is protecting free speech!