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Comment by andrewnez | Hacker News Reader

It seemed because of complaints regarding race/gender diversity of speakers on twitter.

I think it started with this tweet: https://twitter.com/joshsusser/status/269844125363339264

Am I just missing something here or did they seriously cancel an entire conference just because of some random dude on Twitter imagining some nonexistent racism/sexism in the speaker lineup?

He's making this up in his own mind. Who's the real discriminator here?

Their sponsor gave up on those twitter trolling

> Am I just missing something here or did they seriously cancel an entire conference just because of some random dude on Twitter imagining some nonexistent racism/sexism in the speaker lineup?

According to https://twitter.com/Rebeccask/status/270220165344550912 sponsors pulled out. It's not mentioned at all in TFAA though, so I'd don't know if the explanation's legit (and why they went with a non-explanation instead if it is)

It only seems to be white males that are complaining.

They probably are the most brainwashed and obsessed with the issue, and possibly believe they are scoring points in some imaginary and self-deprecating game.

Sane people of different hues are probably doing something more interesting - reading Ruby books, writing Ruby code, or just having a life.

I'm not sure that's the attitude that helps either side in this kind of situation. I call your troll-iness.

Indeed, that was a bit on the trollish side. I'd better go back to coding something myself.

I would say more misguided than brainwashed, someone needs to tell these guys inclusivity is not the same as positive discrimination.

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