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| Subject: Programming Conference Rejects SJW Demands To Ban Speaker Over Political Views Wed Mar 30, 2016 6:16 pm | |
| LambdaConf, an annual gathering of programmers in Boulder, Colorado, has faced calls from social justice warriors to cancel a talk by Curtis Yarvin, the developer of the Urbit programming environment, due to his political views.
Yarvin, who wrote a series of political essays in the late 2000s under the pen-name “Mencius Moldbug” is credited as one of the pioneers of modern “Neoreactionary” thinking. His more controversial positions included detailed critiques of democracy, egalitarianism, and liberalism.
Anticipating the controversy, LambdaConf’s organisers made a pre-emptive decision that they would support Yarvin’s continued presence at the conference, on the grounds that they could not start deciding who attends a programming conference on the basis of their political views.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/sjws-urge-programming-conference-to-ban-speaker-over-political-views/ |
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