I don't feel that this was the best outcome for anybody. Having both out of a job. It could have just been an occasion for reflecting on our changing social mores and how to react maturely to the growing pains, but fuck it all. Let's panic and just fire everyone and forget the matter. This just muddied the whole issue and nobody was any better in the end.
What I'm saying, the initial fuck ups (his comment, which could have lead to constructive dialogue rather than a shitstorm and her twittering in denouncement) shouldn't have lead to any of this.
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Anonymous2013-03-21 12:52
We should get her to kill herself, gents. Nothing worse than Niggerkikes shedevil feminists.
>>10
I consider that if a grievance was raised over his (harmless, if you ask me) dick joke, it's a fuck up by default. The issue could have been unraveled without incident, but Richards decided to make it about herself. That's a much bigger one, there's no denying that, much more if the guy's company decided to fire him over this petty little thing.
>>11
You're right. There was more than one fuck up after all, and I will list them in order of importance.
- FIOC ever being created
- FIOC ever being used for anything
- Having a convention for FIOC
- Having a nonprogrammer feminaziniggerkikebitch, who can't shut the fuck up about anything vapid presumptuous and self-enitled on twitter, go to a convention for FIOC
>>8 changing social mores
I don't think prudish individuals complaining about private utterances of dick jokes are really a new thing. The difference is that thanks to SOCIAL MEDIA, they can get other prudish retards to back them up.
Now, about having them both out of a job. Firing someone is a punishment, and punishment is not an effective way to educate human beings.
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Anonymous2013-03-21 13:48
/PROG/ CHALLENGE: scrape twitter for male-hating posts, look up the authors' names and place of employment (since they're likely stupid enough to use their real name), and try to get them fired.
>>19
Yes, but this prudishness at least tries to pass as a response to customs which are intimidating and exclusionary to women. Taken in good faith, it's an overcorrection. Receding overcorrections is part of the process of changing social mores. I do think that much of this is mere puritanism masquerading as social justice. You see it everywhere, and it's terrible.
To bad they probably won't sue and leave here a penniless whore turning tricks to pay damages.
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Anonymous2013-03-21 15:38
This is the email that got Adria Richards fired, and why Sendgrid announced the firing publicly. Imagine being the CEO of Sendgrid, reading this, sweating bullets.
>>39
I wholeheartedly agree. This would have never happened at LispCon, since lispers know very well that conventions are an inefficient way of presenting projects, so LispCon wouldn't exist anyway.