On: Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected

[rhizome]

I literally couldn't care less about demographic checkboxes when listening to a talk about technology.

Is it safe to say you're a member of a demographic who has never had those checkboxes applied to them negatively?

[gnarbarian → rhizome]

>Is it safe to say you're a member of a demographic who has never had those checkboxes applied to them negatively?

It sure sounds like you're trying to do that right now.

Can you explain to me why using race/demographics as a means to sideline and devalue my opinion isn't the highest form of hypocrisy in this context?

In other words... Isn't your question a perfect example of you "applying those checkboxes" to me negatively?

[st3v3r → gnarbarian]

Because you're the one saying race and demographics don't matter, yet you're likely a member of the race and demographic who hasn't had negative experiences because of their race/demographic. You don't think it's important because you've never really had to think about it.

[gnarbarian → st3v3r]

>yet you're likely a member of the race and demographic who hasn't had negative experiences because of their race/demographic.

It's funny that you can say that right after someone implied I was a member of an over-represented group and then used that assumption as leverage against me in an argument. So that statement is demonstrably false.

[rhizome → gnarbarian]

You don't have to be defensive, it was just a yes or no question.