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

Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by rayiner on Sunday June 04, 2017 @05:44PM (#14483716)

If green eyed people had been systematically oppressed until recently and still made a fraction of the money brown eyed people do as a result, you'd see statistics about eye color at conference presentations.

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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by MagnumOpus on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:50AM (#14486147)

Define "recently. Neither women nor blacks nor catholics nor jews have been systematically oppressed in the US in my lifetime, or yours, or most of the potential presenters. If you are conservative about it you can claim discrimination up until the 1960s - which is 50 years ago, hardly "recently".

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Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of spe... by drjdog on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @10:09AM (#14497307)

> Neither women nor blacks nor catholics nor jews have been systematically oppressed in the US in my lifetime

If you are ever so slightly open-minded about it you could consider black Americans to still be systematically oppressed by the criminal justice system. Read a bit about the criminalisation of marajuana, sentencing procedures, the industrial prison complex etc..

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