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why should I (or the rest of the tech community) put up with assholes? You shouldn't. But you also shouldn't let people appropriate the political capital of a
by forgottenpass 10y ago
why should I (or the rest of the tech community) put up with assholes?
You shouldn't. But you also shouldn't let people appropriate the political capital of a topic as serious as sexually predatory behavior to argue points about assholes. Not only because the magnitude of the negatives they introduce into the world are so widely disproportionate, but also because "asshole" is a suspiciously flexible term. "Asshole" doesn't even describe behavior, it describes an assessment of behavior. From a mild but harmless annoyance, all the way to fireable and beyond.
- MBCook 10y ago> But you also shouldn't let people appropriate the political capital of a topic as serious as sexually predatory behavior to argue points about assholes. I'm not. But I've seen FAR TOO MANY statements here and elsewhere that provable death threats or sending porn pics is wrong but anything no matter how jackassy up to that is fair perfectly acceptable. I'm VERY tired of that attitude. And I don't believe in the slippery-slope of assholeness. Everyone knows their definition, I don't think it will slip to anything trivial. Asshole will not equal annoying any time soon.