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		lingrush4 60 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government ... If they picked any of the conferences based on the gender of the attendees, then they were pretty obviously discriminating based on a protected characteristic and should face legal ramifications for it.

wrsh07 60 days ago [–]

So unintentional discrimination is ok, but intentionally counterbalancing (even extremely tepidly) is very bad?

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