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SendGrid Fires Employee After Firestorm Over Inappropriate Jokes
tsamsoniw writes "Hoping to strike a blow against sexism in the tech industry , developer and tech evangelist Adria Richards took to Twitter to complain about two male developers swapping purportedly offensive jokes at PyCon. The decision has set into motion a chain of events that illustrate the impact a tweet or two can make in this age of social networking: One the developers and Richards have since lost their jobs, and even the chair of PyCon has been harassed for his minor role in the incident."
$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski
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Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.
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You can see my dilemma. What if this is merely a ruse by an APK impostor to try and get people to delete APK's messages, perhaps all over the web? I can't be a party to such an event! My involvement with APK began at a very late stage in the game. While APK has made a career of trolling popular online forums since at least the year 2000 (newsgroups and IRC channels before that)- my involvement with APK did not begin until early 2005 . OSY is one of the many forums that APK once frequented before the sane people there grew tired of his garbage and banned him. APK was banned from OSY back in 2001. 3.5 years after his banning he begins to send a variety of abusive emails to the operator of OSY, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke threatening to sue him for libel,
Stupid Cunt Offends the Hell out of me. Please, get rid of her! She makes me sick!
Two employees, in public, on company time, wearing badges clearly identifying what company they work for, making totally inappropriate comments - they most certainly should be fired.
Firing Richards herself is the moronic thing. You don't fire the messenger. I have zero idea what SendGrid does - but "all publicity is good publicity" is a lie.
Then go live out in the wilderness or something; at least you won't hear humans saying things you disagree with there.
Now fuck off, you pussy.
Sure, somebody points out sexual harassment and you FIRE them? I hope she has retained a lawyer because she is going to make a mint.
Dog is my co-pilot.
Which fact are you people not clear on? Those guys are NOT victims. They ARE the perpetrators. They're being fired is a direct consequence of their BEHAVIOR.
Here's a simple diagnostic that you can take to help you decide if you have a difficult time or are simply unable to understand when a comment is inappropriate:
Here's Atriusofbricia sig line: "I was raised on the command line, bitch."
Do you see the problem with it? If the answer is yes, then you're capable of understanding when a statement is demeaning to women.
If the answer is no, then you may have a problem empathizing with women. I strongly encourage you to give some thought as to why you're having trouble relating to women.
Yeah, and I know more than one person assaulted for asking someone to stop doing something offensive. Why should I risk personal harm in defending my rights, when the government exists to defend them?
Learn to love Alaska
That is a *really* stupid comment. Feminists are perfectly happy to talk about differences between men and women. Here's one difference: men have most of the power in the world. Here's another: men rape horrifically large numbers of women, men rape men in comparatively tiny numbers, and women don't rape men at all in measurable numbers. Women don't need to "make themselves feel victimized" [of sexist behaviour] -- because they are disproportionately the victims of sexist behaviour, so there's no "make" about it. You either are wilfully ignorant of these very basic facts about the world, or you are pretending that the facts are different to back up your own world view. Whatever the truth, it's undignified, and you should stop.
Oh good, so she's just a blithering idiot.
No, she's more or less right. Racism is primarily about power. And stupidity. Black people can certainly be as stupid as white people, but they tend not to be the ones in power in the West. [*]
Making it an absolute statement is silly, as there are certainly black, Asian and other non-white people who are racist, especially when they are the ones in power.
[*] Yes I know the POTUS is black. That did not magically make racism disappear overnight.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it