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throwaway091025 | 4 months ago

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MeetingsBrowser|4 months ago

If you read

> support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers

as a racist statement, you need to step back and re-evaluate things.

wrsh07|4 months ago

If psf wants supports ten conferences and 9 of them have a typical gender ratio of 7:3 (males:females) and so they support 1 conference with a gender ratio of 3:7, then I think they're in violation of these terms.

Was PSF acting in a discriminatory manner by supporting the tenth conference?

lingrush4|4 months ago

If they picked any of the conferences based on the gender of the attendees, then they were pretty obviously discriminating based on a protected characteristic and should face legal ramifications for it.

thinkcontext|4 months ago

“I’d just become leader and I’m excited and President Trump’s there. And I look over at the Democrats and they stand up. They look like America,” he told Sorkin. “We stand up. We look like the most restrictive country club in America.”

Kevin McCarthy, former GOP House leader and Speak of the House.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/30/mccarthy-...