TL:DR Summary: Social Justice Warriors tried to pull their usual social justice warrior thing, in this case trying to get a presenter for a programming conference called LambdaConf kicked off because he said politically incorrect things on his blog. LambdaConf told them, far too politely, to get stuffed. So next the SJW managed to pressure some sponsors into pulling out. In response, conference organizers put up an Indigopop appeal to make up the funding shortfall and support free speech.
Result: They reached their funding goal in one day.
Rather than deploy my own snark, I’m going to lazily embedded ClarkHat’s far more deliciously pointed Tweets on the same subject:
So you're on notice, SJWs. Your litmus tests? Your moral panics? Your disinvitations? Your purges?
They're dead. Gone. Kaput.
— Grim Dark Future Hat (@ClarkHat) April 2, 2016
You've been manufacturing preference cascades and purity spirals, where you point and shame and everyone rushes to agree so they're not next
— Grim Dark Future Hat (@ClarkHat) April 2, 2016
But we've revealed that your power is a mile wide and quarter inch thin.
You don't have an army. You've got 500 marxists in mom's basement.
— Grim Dark Future Hat (@ClarkHat) April 2, 2016
The next time you try to shame a conference in order to drop someone for dissenting from your Marxist orthodoxy, conf organizers will know.
— Grim Dark Future Hat (@ClarkHat) April 2, 2016
They'll know that you don't have any power. Your illusion of inevitable victory is empty.
— Grim Dark Future Hat (@ClarkHat) April 2, 2016
And if you try to shame the advertisers again, it probably won't work. But if it does, we'll money bomb THAT conference too.
— Grim Dark Future Hat (@ClarkHat) April 2, 2016
And here's the delicious part: every time you try this tactic and lose, the easier it gets for us and the harder it gets for you.
— Grim Dark Future Hat (@ClarkHat) April 2, 2016
GET YOUR HANDS OFF THAT OVERTON WINDOW.
THAT WINDOW IS FOR CLOSERS.
— Grim Dark Future Hat (@ClarkHat) April 2, 2016
But I have to thank the SJW things for one thing: Without them, it might have been a while before I delved into Urbit, the project of the guy they want to ban. It’s completely off the hook, utterly bonkers and probably entirely feasible. It’s halfway between early open source goals and something out of a Greg Egan novel. Here’s an early look at same from ClarkHat,
(Hat tip: Borepatch.)