[netsharc]

Well, the conference organizers are "respecting" the "US public"'s choice by holding their conference somewhere where more people are welcome.

If the management of the Holtin Hotels said brown-haired people are no longer welcome in their hotel, would you hold your conference (which has some brown haired people attendees) there or would you hold it somewhere else?

[magduf]

>Well, the conference organizers are "respecting" the "US public"'s choice by holding their conference somewhere where more people are welcome.

Yes, exactly. You don't need the scare-quotes. The voters of the US have spoken, and their will should be respected. If they don't want to be a welcoming place, that's their right. It's the conference organizers' right to take their conference someplace more welcoming, and it isn't disrespectful for them to do this.

>If the management of the Holtin Hotels said brown-haired people are no longer welcome in their hotel, would you hold your conference (which has some brown haired people attendees) there or would you hold it somewhere else?

Exactly! There's plenty of places in the world where you can have a large tech conference.

[ihsw2]

That's not an appropriate comparison, the current administration is no more racist than the last (if anything it is less racist).

[rsynnott]

How racist or otherwise Donnie is is largely irrelevant in this case; the reality is, his policies make it more difficult for people to hold international conferences in the US, so they're beginning to go elsewhere. I don't see what's so hard to grasp about this.

[krapp]

> the current administration is no more racist than the last (if anything it is less racist)

That reads like ideological boilerplate attempting to pass as fact.

Can you back it up with something objective?