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posted by n1 on Tuesday September 06 2016, @09:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-conference-for-old-men dept.

Douglas Crockford (JSON, JSLint, JSMin, Javascript: The Good Parts) is a founding father of modern Javascript. He is a frequent speaker on the Javascript circuit and, until recently, was the scheduled as the keynote speaker for the Nodevember Conference. For reasons no one can explain, he was removed from the conference schedule to help foster inclusivity. No one (including Crockford) knows why he was banned. Internet commenters have speculated it may have been due to a talk titled "Monads and Gonads" or slut shaming the "promiscuous" web or a his use of the gender (and species) exclusive phrase "hanging out there like a pair of dog balls". Others believe it's because he's a curmudgeon (aka grumpy old white cis heterosexual man). One of the Nodevember organizers (not involved with the decision to ban Crockford) has stepped down.

This is not the first time Crockford has experienced censorship -- he previously ported Maniac Mansion to the NES.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @10:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @10:19PM (#398321)

    What implementation?

    Are you arguing that the tech industry has been an economic loser over the last 20 years coincident with the rise of political correctness?

    Because I'm pretty sure Silicon Valley is no rust-belt ghost town.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:01PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:01PM (#398343) Journal

    Are you arguing that the tech industry has been an economic loser over the last 20 years coincident with the rise of political correctness?

    Where would we be without a non sequitur argument? Why would PC be the only factor in the economic success or failure of the tech industry?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:07PM (#398350)

      I dunno. That's why I asked wtf they were talking about.
      Since you seem to know what were talking about, how about letting me in on the secret?

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:31PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:31PM (#398361) Journal
        They were talking about implementation of political correctness. Overreacting is supposedly the problem, but no one who's invested in the ideology can be bothered to fix it.
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:38PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @11:38PM (#398370)

          "Implementations of political correctness?"

          What, exactly, would those implementations be?
          Is there a PC 1.0? 3.11? 4.0?

          Lol. No wonder I didn't get it. It was a joke.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @12:09AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @12:09AM (#398399)

            Christ, you can't even troll properly. Keep crying, your tears are delicious.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @12:28AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @12:28AM (#398412)

              Wait... Which is it, am I trolling or am I crying?
              At least I'm not acting out.

          • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Wednesday September 07 2016, @02:23AM

            by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday September 07 2016, @02:23AM (#398476)

            Of course, the versions spew out ever faster. Each crazier. Started out almost indistinguishable from normal sane politeness, the difference was it was about an agenda of reeducation instead of politeness. Most of us didn't even see it at first but the Cultural Marxists knew from the start what they were doing. Nobody objected much when the "N" word went out of polite conversation. Fair enough, that was the polite thing. Did it stop there? Of course not. Suddenly Negro (except for the United Negro College Fund) went too, then Colored (except for the NAACP) and Black (except BLM) and we are expected to use the convoluted "African American" now, which engrains the whole hyphenated American meme. Of course that was all back several revisions of P.C. ago. Now we are over the rainbow into crazyland. Now if you can't succeed at "spot the trannie" every time AND somehow know/guess it's preferred pronoun you are a hater.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @04:33AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @04:33AM (#398550)

              Did you just have a PC chimp-out?

              I think you did!

            • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday September 07 2016, @10:26PM

              by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday September 07 2016, @10:26PM (#398898) Homepage
              "its", not "it's"
              --
              Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
          • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday September 07 2016, @01:56PM

            by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 07 2016, @01:56PM (#398692) Journal

            "Implementations of political correctness?"

            What, exactly, would those implementations be?

            I guess you'll have to think about that one a little.