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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by wand3r on Sunday June 04, 2017 @08:01AM (#14480983)
Well Indians are over represented in tech so you're views don't matter. Double because you're male.

But yes, rather rediculous. Totally agree. It's like survelience and terrorism. Just a stupid excuse to gain Goodwill w/ some groups and avoid a different problem they don't want to deal with.

Hope you weren't offended, I just wanted to make a point. Of course your views matter

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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by catenthusiast on Sunday June 04, 2017 @08:59AM (#14481323)
*your
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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by huffmsa on Sunday June 04, 2017 @09:32AM (#14481488)
No, it's you're. Conjugation of "you are". As in > No I get you, YOU ARE saying.
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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by naasking on Sunday June 04, 2017 @09:51AM (#14481581)
The correction was for "YOUR views" which incorrectly used you're.
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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by Myrmornis on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:57PM (#14491951)
*contraction

(Um, also, maybe we should stop this HN tradition of making copy-editing changes to other people's posts? What does it actually achieve? Especially as we've no idea whether we're writing our first language)

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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by huffmsa on Sunday June 04, 2017 @09:53AM (#14481592)
Whoops. Thought you were replying to a different post
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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by TokenDiversity on Sunday June 04, 2017 @08:14AM (#14481069)
No I got you, you're saying majority is an automatic disqualification which is ridiculous but happens today nevertheless.
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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by hn_throwaway_99 on Sunday June 04, 2017 @10:09AM (#14481671)
The interesting thing is that this change really happened in the past 10 or 15 years or so. That is, the phrase "under-represented minority" is relatively new, and basically came about because someone decided Indians and East Asians "don't count" anymore when it comes to diversity because we've got too many of them.

I consider myself liberal, but I feel this business of grading everyone by their race and sex is the exact antithesis of liberal ideals. What happened to MLK's ideas of not being judged by the color of your skin, but by the content of your character? Yes, I understand that things like subconscious bias and privilege can complicate this ideal, but at the end of the day, we shouldn't be surprised that anyone gets angry when they are told "Sorry, we don't want anymore of your race/sex, we've already got too many of your kind."

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