This is the brave new world we&#x27;re living in.<p>If people can get thrown out of conferences for their tweets on unrelated things, if Eich can get in hot water over a political donation, then it is little surprise to see the knife cutting both ways.<p>You wouldn&#x27;t forgive a developer for speaking at an MRA conference--why should these people be forgiven for unrelated presentations?<p><i>This is the future you chose.</i><p>EDIT:<p>Downvote all you want. <i>This</i> is the kind of goodthink&#x2F;badthink politicking that happens once you move away from &quot;Does the code work?&quot;<p>The thing being complained about by my parent poster here is completely consistent with the social norms that have prevailed lately. I would say don&#x27;t be surprised at the sudden double-standard, but logic apparently isn&#x27;t the strong point of the mobs.<p>We&#x27;ve spent so much time lately attacking meritocracies that it is somewhat cathartic to watch the inevitable consequences.<p>EDIT2:<p>Just to make this painfully clear--we have decided as a community that it is okay to judge people based on their actions in unrelated contexts. That applies just as much to folks that have slides about &quot;white women being obstacles&quot; in some unrelated context to their work in HR as it does to people that tweet bigoted things while being maintainers of projects.<p>The logic and principle is <i>exactly</i> the same.