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Re:Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk by sedev on Friday December 28, 2012 @08:43PM (#4980628)
Her agenda is about making crypto accessible to lots of people that it's not currently available to. To those people, hackerdom often looks like an undifferentiated mass of white dudes. Leaving race out of a discussion like that is not a neutral thing: omitting race is a statement of its own.
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Re:Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk by robryan on Friday December 28, 2012 @09:00PM (#4980703)
This isn't the white males fault though, I am sure all of them would be happy to see more diversity. The event is open invite though and this is the crowd that it attracts right now.
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Re:Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk by boboblong on Friday December 28, 2012 @10:21PM (#4980951)
Are you saying that crpyto is not available to people who aren't white guys?
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