Seeing crypto projects continue to host events in Dubai is a strange phenomenon. Either it’s due to ignorance or outright malice, but it makes a clear statement that there are some groups of people they don’t want involved in the project given if said people were to show up, they’d be executed/imprisoned.

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

The projects are inclusive of people / groups that are not inclusive. To not go there would be excluding them / people in that part of the world in some way.

The people =\= the lawmakers

They can bury me deep, but I always grow back.

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cc @ivy, I thought it’d cc you bc it was responding to your recast

Ah okay. Their global annual event, yeah, def should host somewhere neutral and welcoming

I’m not talking about regional events, that’s a different thing. But imagine if DevCon were hosted there? It’s not impossible to imagine: Algorand is currently hosting their massive annual event there. It’s saying “some people are unwelcome in our project” because going to it as one of those people risks de

and if enough projects stopped going there the lawmakers might stop making trans people illegal

like sorry i'm really sick of equivocation over Dubai and using the language of inclusiveness to dress up 'our business needs trump trans people being valid as human beings' makes me physically ill