ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered

Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by pdimitar on Sunday June 04, 2017 @10:44AM (#14481823)

With the risk of being downvoted, let me cite George Carlin regarding the "sensitivity training":

"Hey, if you need a special training to realize you can't shove large cumbersome objects up somebody's ass, then maybe you're too fucked up to be in the police force in the first place. ... Let's try something else -- intelligence and decency. You never can tell, it might just work, it certainly has never been tried before."

I feel that in such areas USA just refuses to acknowledge the existence of a very, very basic common sense.

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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by kinkrtyavimoodh on Sunday June 04, 2017 @02:30PM (#14482785)

I think it's better to cite and learn from people who actually have to deal with problems on the ground instead of those who have the luxury of earning money and fame by uttering platitudes complaining and pontificating about them.

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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by pdimitar on Sunday June 04, 2017 @02:35PM (#14482801)

You're vastly underestimating people's ability to learn about emotions, work, and life in general. It doesn't matter much in what area you're in -- when you're 35 and on, most people share a lot of common insights in many areas of life. One of the names for "common sense", I believe, although I am sure that partial definition is far from being precise.

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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by rayiner on Sunday June 04, 2017 @12:03PM (#14482162)

Okay, so what do you do when people don't have intelligence and decency?

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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by pdimitar on Sunday June 04, 2017 @02:38PM (#14482811)

Carlin was referring to a specific case when a bunch of white cops sexually assaulted a black man with inanimate objects (translation: putting a metal tube in his ass).

Instead of these people being relentlessly persecuted and jailed, they received "sensitivity training".

So yeah, I'd sue them to hell and back, and will fire any person in the chain of command who even remotely resists that decision. Which of course wouldn't ever happen, for one reason or another. I don't know the reason(s) but it's baffling that these people actually ran free, don't you think?

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