Skimmed, and didn’t find anything that would confirm the previous claim. No calls, no incitements, just a lot of difficult to follow text with content that doesn’t seem to be remotely proportional to the hatefest it spurs.
“If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.”
Guess you need to read more closely instead of skimming.
We can safely assume that all conference staff will be white, right? Isn’t that, like, the default?
Unless you’re in the right circles, you’re probably unaware of the fantastic contributions to modern philately pioneered by David Duke. I know many of you have certain unpleasant associations with him from the media due to his other activities, but when he’s presenting at conferences or stamp shows he’s nothing but a consummate philatelist.
Just think how much better modern pharmacology would be if, like pure functional programming, there were no side effects.
Prison is not a punishment for transgressive individuals - it is a warning for others to not transgress.
Body of the Condemned, and all that.
Reading “Pulsed power systems”, “Dark sun”, and “Science of sugar confectionery” just now. More worthy of the time, as the skimming shown.
Life is too short.
When we had gibbets and executions in the public square, sure, deterrence was the foremost and most obvious motivation. But we don’t do that, now - modern punishment is secreted away behind walls, there is no mass public display to warn others against malfeasance. If there were, we’d have live-streamed executions and webcams in hot boxes. Foucault helped to make his own analysis true with his work for the Groupe d’information sur les Prisons in the 70s, publicizing prison conditions and giving voice to prisoners, but these days? Here? Eh. Not convinced. We’ve moved on from deterrence to isolation - remove the harmful actors from society, encapsulate them…the rise of solitary confinement even within prisons supports this. But redemption? No, there is still massive resistance to the mere idea. I posit that this is not because of the belief that the proper function of prison is deterrence, but because the American disciplinary model, at its root, is based on the well-buried belief that only God can forgive. Rehabilitation is thus a prideful usurpation, and is to be avoided using all of the various strange and oblique language and practices that we use to avoid acknowledging that we’re still unraveling the pervasive effects of 5,000+ years’ worth of desert-god-style tribal monotheism.
Thanks for the link. I skimmed though it and wow, it actually makes a lot of sense.
Enjoy your cotton candy then.
His anonymised submission was accepted by the review panel for the conference. He wasn’t explicitly invited; it was on the strengths of his talk submission.
Oh, well that’s okay then. There’s no way they could ever find out that he’s famous for being a famous racist before the conference begins.
The guy isn’t really all that well known outside of certain circles so it isn’t as if he is famous, doubly so under his actual name. It probably didn’t occur to them to check.
What is a conference organizer to do anyway, conduct thorough background checks on all speakers? That’s too high a bar for the organizers and insulting to the rest of the speakers.
Anybody organizing a technology conference that doesn’t know how to use Google shouldn’t be.
Anybody organizing any conference that doesn’t vet it’s speakers is not doing due diligence.
It’s in the first search result for his real name. This is not a “thorough” background check. It’s called doing your job at least as well as a high school intern.
Have you ever run a conference? If so, I bet we can find a crank that you invited.
Haha Right?
I remember one time we invited this guy to a conference…
Guy wen’t rogue halfway through and used the conference as a platform to promote his political agenda. He cornered the leaders of Kiribati in the corner and got him to sign a pledge to open a barefoot college there.
Completely off the schedule.
Cranks right?
Yeah that crank was me 
Perhaps you should look at this, as it’s my understanding that “functional programming” as used in Haskell and Erlang is rather different from flowcharts.
I’m sorry, I just don’t believe this.
Invite him – or not – depending upon your fancy, but I have a hard time believing that inviting a lecturer to a programming conference – even an abysmal asshole – is in some way threatening the physical safety of the participants. And IMO such overblown rhetoric does no one any good.
Do you mean your safety? Or everyone’s safety including women, LGBTQ and non-white coders employed by others attending the conference and conference social events?
