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Django offers Mental Health counselling at its Convention (2015.djangocon.eu)

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[–]CDRE_64 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (3子コメント)

While mental health is important and I'm sure it affects some people in this community, it's far outside the scope of what a convention is supposed to be and I'm not interested in paying to go to a convention that's using registration fees for something so unrelated to what I'm there for.

[–]Slxe -12 ポイント-11 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Yea honestly even though it effects a large amount of people in this community (myself included), this kind of thing has absolutely no place at a convention. Just another way this whole "being politically correct" bullshit movement that's been gaining popularity in the last few years is hindering more than it's helping (good examples are Rusts community guidelines or that code of conduct pushed onto the kernel dev recently). Sigh.

Edit: if you don't agree how about you respond instead of just downvoting? I'm able to change my opinions on things if I'm given a reasonable reason to.

[–]Chew55 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I suspect you're being down voted for equating the offer of mental health counselling with "'being politically correct' bullshit".

IMO having the service there does absolutely no harm. Mental health issues affect a lot of people (something like 1 in 4 people will experience some sort of mental health issue each year) and most people don't reach out for help when they should. If something like this encourages people to get the help they need then why is it such a bad thing?

[–]Slxe 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's a very good point, thanks for actually replying, I probably should have separated the two topics more.

Although I think we should be promoting people talking about mental issues more openly and seeking help, I still don't think a convention is the right place to have it (in that form at least, talks are more than welcome). I think as a community we've got the accepting people part down but not really the working towards a solution part yet, if that makes any sense?