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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Wednesday September 07 2016, @02:23AM
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
Did you just have a PC chimp-out?
I think you did!
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday September 07 2016, @10:26PM
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