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by chocolatera1n 1234 days ago
I used to really like Cory until I saw him give a talk at Burning Man. The talk wasn't bad but at the end of the talk he announced Q&A with "all gay, colored, or non-binary people ask questions first" and refused to take questions from anyone until all questions from "gay, colored, or non-binary people" were asked. While I can appreciate and respect that Cory himself is not heterosexual, the "social justice" flavored blatant discrimination over demographic details, arbitrarily excluding those with meaningful curiosity and intellect, and the manner in which he did it left me with pause before taking anything he says seriously.