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I agree with your point that it may not be common sense. However, please don't use Dave McClure as an example of someone "who didn't know better". He knew exact
by pm90 9y ago
I agree with your point that it may not be common sense. However, please don't use Dave McClure as an example of someone "who didn't know better". He knew exactly what he was doing and apologized only when his actions were being made public by multiple women.
Perfect hypothetical example of someone "who doesn't know better" would have been if the OP of the article had ignored the Investor/Founder boundary and asked her out on a date.
- joshAg 9y agoI agree that he's probably lying about not knowing better. That's why I said 'if we assume the best'. The best case scenario for Dave McClure is that he was painfully ignorant about basic human interaction, because the other option is that he's a predator. But even if we do assume that he's a predator, the fact that he (and many others who have used similar excuses) thinks that saying he didn't know any better is a valid excuse means that we need to work on emphasizing that that sort of thing is absolutely unacceptable, so that it stops becoming an excuse predators can use.