Trigger Warning

A few days ago, Douglas Crockford, who was to be the keynote speaker was removed from a JavaScript conference called Nodevember.

Nodevember Announcing Crockford’s removal

The reason for his removal? Sexism and intolerance of course!

Yikes, this Crockford character must be some pretty toxic shady character right? Well, no he’s as tame as they get. For those who haven’t seen his talks, or read his books he’s basically the closest thing the JavaScript community has to an academic. If Scott Meyers wrote the book on C++ then Crockford wrote the book on JavaScript.

So he has technical merit for being a good speaker, but what about these allegations? Well, it basically came from some very vocal, public bullying from “inclusivity” folks on Twitter. Whom, are incidentally also a part of the Node.js inclusivity group.

There are essentially two things being pointed out that stands testament to what a terrible a person, despicable Mr. Crockford is.