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You’re literally the one bringing it in, with phrases like “woke mindvirus”. Such phrases aren’t intended to foster serious or rational discussion, they’re trollish epithets intended to anger and divide.
Well, thanks, I suppose.
> …allow it to work organically.
This is a bit unclear. Would you object to finding mediocre speakers from underrepresented groups just to boost representation? I imagine so, and so would I.
Would you object to, e.g., posting to a mailing list mostly for black or women developers to encourage applications (without any alteration to the subsequent application procedure)? Well, I can’t tell whether you’d regard that as ‘organic’ and unobjectionable, or inorganic and objectionable; I’d regard it as the former.
Does that mean that I’ve succumbed to the ‘woke mindvirus’? Perhaps, but even if I have, I’m not convinced that such terms are conducive to curing me of it.
Either way, the justification that a technical blog post caused "discomfort" to some of the team (what does that even mean?) is bullshit.
That's it, that's the basis to almost all popular talks in tech.
I really don't think that's an appropriate language for a discussion on HN
That ship has sailed loooong time ago.