Watching the uproar, I am ashamed of the tech community I've called home for many decades. Bob's always been the kind of person that would take a position, pop

Watching the uproar, I am ashamed of the tech community I've called home for many decades. Bob's always been the kind of person that would take a position, popular or not, and ask people to reason with him so that either he's wrong or the other person is. There's no hate here, just open inquiry. Sometimes Bob has good ideas, sometimes he has bad ideas. Like the rest of us. Sometimes he states his ideas poorly. My mission is to make technology developer's lives happier and more productive. To do that I meet people where they are and openly and honestly try to help. I find when I get my focus on to other things, I tend to do a really poor job. When I see this kind of herd-like mobbing and shunning, supposedly by professionals, I wonder what it's like to work with some of these people. Would I want to bring somebody in to an emotionally-charged situation that publicly shames and shuts down conversation they're uncomfortable with? At some point you're either humble and your mission comes first -- or you're sitting on the sidelines throwing rocks at people. If I ran a brothel and it caught on fire, I would want some people in a red truck to show up and put the fire out. I wouldn't want a lecture on evils of the business I was in. Save the lectures for your church group. I apologize for the rant. I personally know people on both sides of this. It is disturbing. I feel like what happened to Bob can happen to anybody. As one person IMed a week or so "Having an opinion like Bob's or supporting him is a good way to lose your job!" It is. And that's fucked up.