[snewk]

ok. people can be offended by things that weren't intended to offend them. this does happen from time to time.

buy why would the speaker withdraw instead of contacting the event organizers? if it bothered her, she wouldn't necessarily have to go into any detail as to why she found it offensive. she should just chew them out for this debacle and threaten to withdraw if they don't alter the image.

this whole thing seems like a poor choice by the event organizers, followed by a poor reaction from a speaker, which led to a poor response from the organizers.

you aren't automatically "right" just because the other guy is wrong.

[aaron-lebo]

She wanted to be taken seriously, that undermined it, she has that right. That the organizers responded the way they did says enough:

This is not how adults handle situations.

[drharby]

Perspective - if someone photoshopped my face onto pancho villa I could choose to be undermined or be a good sport about it, regardless of how wrong the other party may have been.

I will say this, being outraged may vault her into the limelight and accelerate her name recognition, if not for a moment. Almost sounds like an incentive to choose to be a victim

[aaron-lebo]

Or maybe she had a legitimate reason to be offended. You don't get to chose that.

[drharby]

I think you missed my point where i would be offended and still handle it with grace.

Oh and to shortcircuit the strawman observation, I've been in many professional situations where my latino heritage is used in a malicious and insulting way which offends me but I CHOOSE a constructive non confrontational conflict resolution that includes dialogue