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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."
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