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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 3 Jan 2013

    22 speakers. All 22 are male. Organiser sees no ‘need to defend this’. Privilege rarely does. http://www.threechords.org/blog/diversity-in-tech-still-an-issue-2013/ …

    4:12 PM - 3 Jan 2013
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      2. Kev Marshall‏ @sidchip64 4 Jan 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral The irony is where you 'pressed' him on this on Twitter! You then blog several thousand words taking him to task, hardly generous.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 4 Jan 2013
        Replying to @sidchip64

        @sidchip64 Well, I didn’t press him or write the article but don’t let facts get in the way of a good tweet :)

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      4. Kev Marshall‏ @sidchip64 4 Jan 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral oops! Sorry, thread got muddled, came in late... :)

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 4 Jan 2013
        Replying to @sidchip64

        @sidchip64 No worries :)

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      2. Joe Workman‏ @joeworkman 3 Jan 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral I am sure it was not his intention to exclude women, it just happened.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 3 Jan 2013
        Replying to @joeworkman

        @joeworkman That’s the beauty of hegemony; it is invisible.

        0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
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      2. Josh Barrow‏ @Carbamide 3 Jan 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral What do you think the right thing to do is, if, say, an organizer asks several women and is turned down by all of them, leaving only..

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 3 Jan 2013
        Replying to @Carbamide

        @Carbamide I think being transparent about the process is a start. Not feeling the need to explain does smell of white male privilege.

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      2. Joe Workman‏ @joeworkman 3 Jan 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral If it were 30 years ago, people would have noticed that they are all white males. Why not label him a racist too?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 3 Jan 2013
        Replying to @joeworkman

        @joeworkman I don’t believe I’ve labelled anyone an anything. Pointing out that not feeling the need to defend it is a sign of privilege.

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      2. Henry Maddocks‏ @henry_maddocks 3 Jan 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @steveklabnik people should be judged on their merits, not sex or race.

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      3. Struct syntax_pos::SpanData‏ @steveklabnik 3 Jan 2013
        Replying to @henry_maddocks

        @henry_maddocks @aral agreed! that's why it's so unfortunate that the conference is all men.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Ben Langfeld‏ @benlangfeld 3 Jan 2013
        Replying to @steveklabnik

        @steveklabnik @henry_maddocks @aral The suggestion that there should be a quota of women to be filled by chasing any women is nonsense.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Struct syntax_pos::SpanData‏ @steveklabnik 3 Jan 2013
        Replying to @benlangfeld

        @benlangfeld @henry_maddocks @aral cool well nobody is suggesting quotas, try again

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      6. Ben Langfeld‏ @benlangfeld 4 Jan 2013
        Replying to @steveklabnik

        @steveklabnik @henry_maddocks @aral That was exactly the suggestion in the blog post! "I'd get to 17 and demand the last 5 be women"

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 4 Jan 2013
        Replying to @benlangfeld

        @benlangfeld @steveklabnik @henry_maddocks That’s unfortunate. If you got to 17, your process was flawed to begin with.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Ben Langfeld‏ @benlangfeld 4 Jan 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @steveklabnik @henry_maddocks Why? A CFP is "who wants to talk?" If no women respond, why is that the organisers/processes fault?

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      9. Struct syntax_pos::SpanData‏ @steveklabnik 4 Jan 2013
        Replying to @benlangfeld

        @benlangfeld @aral @henry_maddocks it's flawed because CS is not 100% men, a process that results in 100% men suggests You're Doing It Wrong

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      1. Señor 朱利安 Cheal‏ @juliancheal 3 Jan 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Do you follow @steveklabnik. He gave a good talk on this subject http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1089-madisonruby2012-anti-opression-101 …

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