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Anil Dash seems like a deeply creepy guy. He inserts race into everything: https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/336853407698657280 https://twitter.com/marcoa
by redsummer 10y ago
Anil Dash seems like a deeply creepy guy.
He inserts race into everything:
https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/336853407698657280 https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/336853407698657280
He gets people fired for making jokes:
http://archive.is/ddDFz http://archive.is/ddDFz
I'm sure Gomix will have some level of success, though I have no idea what it is from his post - which just seems to be about how his is now CEO and all the glory is his. I wonder how his team feel about that? Perhaps some of them are white, so the team doesn't matter?
- janwillemb 10y agoOne tweet != everything
- BipolarElsa 10y agoclassic brown-bashing
- mmjaa 10y agoI think Anil Dash is a creep. His involvement in Gomix and Fog Creek means I'm less interested in those projects, frankly. I think he's one of the bigger blowhards in this scene, and I don't see the value in his participation, given that he seems more interested in social engineering his way to the top than .. you know .. actual engineering.
- redsummer 10y agoJudging from the lack of clarity in his post, he doesn't seem to know what his own product is. But he sure knows that he is the new CEO (he mentions it a few times). And he certainly thinks the successes of Fog Creek somehow reflect on him - in fact he talks about that more than the product.
- yitchelle 10y agoFor me, it is a bad sign when the personalities in the company has a higher profile than the products it is selling/making. Fog Creek seems to be heading down this path.
- tajen 10y agoGiven that many companies actively favour minorities to the detriment of white males (see GitHub's "The biggest hindrance to diversity is white women" and "This is not for white folks to lead" [1]), it's only normal that other people actively defend the right of not being shamed for being white. [1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/diversity-guru-discusses-white-women-2016-2?r=US&IR=T http://uk.businessinsider.com/diversity-guru-discusses-white... NB: I obviously have revoked my GitHub account because of this affair.
- statictype 10y agoI like Marco but it's comically absurd to claim Anil used racism to win an argument there. He wasn't even trying to win an argument or refute anything. Also that's one link. He inserts race into "everything"?
- briandear 10y agoLook at Anil's history of tweets, his politics, his obsession with race and just general snark. That one tweet actually did mean something "30 year old white dude." That IS the very definition of inserting race into a discussion unnecessarily. In 2012 he called me racist because I opposed Obama during the election; since I am white, automatically that made me racist, according to him. He's a jerk, at least in my opinion. I sure many people love the guy and of course they're entitled to such an opinion just as I am entitled to mine.
- statictype 10y agoThat IS the very definition of inserting race into a discussion unnecessarily. I was only trying to refute the accusation that he was racist. That seemed pretty absurd. Don't have anything to say about your position. I haven't spoken to him personally.
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- hnbro 10y ago> That seemed pretty absurd ...why?
- statictype 10y agoIdentifying someone's race doesn't make you a racist. Observing that some races have historically enjoyed more or less privilege than others isn't racist either.
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- te_chris 10y agoRead the thread, Marco was 'being indignant' on the day he struck it rich, Anil pointed it out and highlighted Marco's incredible privilege. Deeply creepy? I think you need to look at yourself before throwing accusations like that around.
- cryptarch 10y agoGP needs to check his privilege. /s Anil's statement was both sexist and racist as in, discriminating based on race and sex. Its totally pointless and counter-productive, but hey, at least his followers will cheer.
- anildash 10y agoFor what it's worth, I bet if you asked Marco, he'd agree he's very privileged, just as I am. I certainly respect all he's accomplished, and have used every product he's put out.
- hnbro 10y agowell, you're presumably not as privileged as marco and can never hope to be. no matter how many cars you have.
- tigershark 10y agoReading his post it was perfectly clear what kind of egomaniac he is, he spoke only about himself and I had no idea what the product was about. After reading in the other comments what kind of person he is I decided to actively discourage as many people as possible to use the product as long as he is the CEO. Maybe savouring his own medicine will help him to understand the consequences of his actions and a bit of humility.
- brianwawok 10y agoFor real. Wasn't the product 90% done before he even came over? Sounds like he is taking credit.
- anildash 10y agoThis was a post on my personal blog about joining the company; as the official announcements make clear, one of the biggest reasons I was excited to join Fog Creek is specifically because the team was building Gomix. I'd give 100% of the credit to the team for building it.
- yarou 10y agoThanks for the lucid response. I think the tone of your responses has been way more civil than some of the other comments upthread.
- fareesh 10y agoYeah he has had that impression on me as well. I remember soon after some of our collective activism succeeded against Facebook's "Free Basics" in India, most of us celebrated a win against what would have been a dangerous precedent against net neutrality. Meanwhile, people like this guy tried to pass it off as if we were afraid of the big bad colonialist telling us to trust him. It was fairly disgusting to read, because it was implied as if we're incapable of forming intelligent opinions without bringing identity politics into the picture.
- statictype 10y agoMeanwhile, people like this guy tried to pass it off as if we were afraid of the big bad colonialist telling us to trust him Do you have a link? All I remember was a comment he made on Zuckerberg's post politely asking him to reconsider his approach and why it didn't work
- fareesh 10y agohttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/09/india-rejects-facebook-s-free-internet.html http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/09/india-rejec... FTA: “At a broad level, it might be useful to really, really reckon with the history of western corporate powers enforcing their desires on a broad swath of the Indian population, especially India’s poorest,” he suggested. “There are things that India, Indians (and those of us in the diaspora) place a very high value on, for historical reasons, that should be obvious with some thought. A colonialist ‘Trust us, it’s for your own benefit’ pitch is a hard sell with good reason.
- statictype 10y agoThanks for the link. I can see how you reached your conclusion but I didn't end up there after reading the bit you quoted. I think there's a more charitable take on what he said.
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- muglug 10y agoYour first comment on this account promoted eugenics.
- skybrian 10y agore: "He gets people fired for making jokes" This seems like putting a spin on things. Following a link in the article, you might want to read what Anil actually wrote (in particular, search for "Update"): http://anildash.com/2013/09/my-meeting-with-pax.html http://anildash.com/2013/09/my-meeting-with-pax.html