Join us in funding women and minority iOS developers

Re:Join us in funding women and minority iOS developers by staticelf on Thursday June 05, 2014 @08:29PM (#7855528)

Yes, help fund these people on the basis on what gender they have or if they have said nice things about other people with another gender or sexuality.

Because _that's_ equality people!

--- Edit: Downvoted immiedietly of course. Is it just me that thinks it's weird to have a community where we activly encourage to treat people special just because of their gender/sexuality/political thoughts.

It's a bit like "fund me, I vote on Obama" or like the more hilarious "fund me because I want to get stinking rich". Each one of those tells me exactly the same on the work that person is doing.

Jon Lajoie has a "kickstarter" for getting rich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSR3h1wUoS8

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Re:Join us in funding women and minority iOS developers by icebraining on Thursday June 05, 2014 @08:50PM (#7855593)

There are good arguments pro and against positive discrimination; but instead of making your point in a way that is conducive to debate, you went with mockery and sarcasm. I didn't downvote you, but I won't upvote you either, and it has nothing to do with your opinion, but how you decided to express it.

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Re:Join us in funding women and minority iOS developers by namenotrequired on Thursday June 05, 2014 @08:50PM (#7855594)

I'm confused, why do you refer to minority developers as people who "have said nice things about other people with another gender or sexuality"?

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Re:Join us in funding women and minority iOS developers by staticelf on Thursday June 05, 2014 @10:07PM (#7855844)

Because there were some applicants that didn't look like they were in a minority group.

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Re:Join us in funding women and minority iOS developers by romanovcode on Sunday June 08, 2014 @04:32PM (#7865808)

I also can add that a individual is minority in one place, but opposite in another.

I would probably be a minority in Pakistan, or mainland China, or gazillion other places. Nobody would give me any special privileges there, mind you.

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Re:Join us in funding women and minority iOS developers by romanovcode on Thursday June 05, 2014 @08:45PM (#7855576)

I completely agree with this. IMO this is what constitutes as discrimination since it's favoring some particular group of people.

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Re:Join us in funding women and minority iOS developers by icebraining on Thursday June 05, 2014 @08:56PM (#7855616)

An analogy: if you oppose violence, is it hypocrisy to support self-defense?

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Re:Join us in funding women and minority iOS developers by arzugula on Friday June 06, 2014 @01:51PM (#7859354)

Another analogy: if you oppose violence, is it hypocrisy to only teach self-defense to people born with blue eyes?

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Re:Join us in funding women and minority iOS developers by icebraining on Saturday June 07, 2014 @02:22AM (#7861482)

So you're accusing them of only helping some minorities, not all? On what basis?

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