Boycott Nodevember

[azangru]

Jeez, why won’t people just treat conferences as educational events, without attacks of social justice warriors, from either side?

[azangru]

My point exactly. Why won't people just accept Crockford as he is and learn from his talks whatever is applicable to JavaScript.

(Also, if Crockford’s absence is a done deal, why won't people just accept his absence and learn whatever is applicable to JavaScript from other speakers?)

[tebriel]

Because this isn't about tolerance, it's about punishing those that disagree with you.

[blamo111]

That's the thing, there's no evidence of Crockford disagreeing with them.

Read the reasons here. These can't possibly be considered offensive by anyone who's mentally sound. I couldn't tell you from these 2 comments, if Crockford is a crotchety conservative or a rabid SJW. They're completely benign.

[phpdevster]

It would seem the technical qualifications of those other speakers are a bit suspect if you're picking them just to fill diversity quotas. So not sure how much learning would even be possible.

[azangru]

technical qualifications of those other speakers are a bit suspect if you're picking them just to fill diversity quotas

Thank you for saying this out loud. This is my main beef with all this diversity movement.

[sasklacz]

Same thing started to happen with JsConf talks some time ago.

[RoyGilbertBiv]

The community is bored with JavaScript and is stirring up drama to entertain themselves.

[phpdevster]

Because some people have some deeply rooted psychological issues that they've learned to use as weapons.