One more reason it’s good to be a libertarian

Jason Kottke, who writes a great blog opines:

This continues to be annoying: yesterday’s IDEA conference had 12 speakers, all men. Blech. The Web 2.0 Summit has the same problem. And I stopped updating this because it got too depressing.

One thing I like about being a libertarian is that I don’t have to consider the sex of a speaker, in addition to whether that speaker would give a good talk. Instead, I just have to ask, who would be the best speaker? Sexism is real, just as racism is real. But neither are going to helped with some kind of quotas. And neither is going to be helped if we fixate on peoples sex or race.

To paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr., I want to live in a nation where people will be not be judged by the color or of their skin, or their sex, but by the content of their character.

I have a dream.