@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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@sidchip64 Well, I didn’t press him or write the article but don’t let facts get in the way of a good tweet :) -
@aral oops! Sorry, thread got muddled, came in late... :) -
@sidchip64 No worries :)
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@joeworkman That’s the beauty of hegemony; it is invisible.
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@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.. -
@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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@aral If it were 30 years ago, people would have noticed that they are all white males. Why not label him a racist too? -
@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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@aral@steveklabnik people should be judged on their merits, not sex or race. -
@henry_maddocks@aral agreed! that's why it's so unfortunate that the conference is all men. -
@steveklabnik@henry_maddocks@aral The suggestion that there should be a quota of women to be filled by chasing any women is nonsense. -
@benlangfeld@henry_maddocks@aral cool well nobody is suggesting quotas, try again -
@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" -
@benlangfeld@steveklabnik@henry_maddocks That’s unfortunate. If you got to 17, your process was flawed to begin with. -
@aral@steveklabnik@henry_maddocks Why? A CFP is "who wants to talk?" If no women respond, why is that the organisers/processes fault? -
@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 - 2 more replies
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@aral Do you follow@steveklabnik. He gave a good talk on this subject http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1089-madisonruby2012-anti-opression-101 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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