Okay I went digging for context. There are some comments here about 'ddd' but AFAIK that drama is not part of the sequence of events in this drama. (instead th

Okay I went digging for context. There are some comments here about 'ddd' but AFAIK that drama is not part of the sequence of events in this drama. (instead that appears to be a separate issue worth it's own facepalming) It appears to me that the sequence of events goes something like: A person tweeted that she's glad she's not getting into tech today because the violent language used by people promoting diversity would have scared her away (actual tweet is removed, but here is the proximal discussion:) https://twitter.com/Aimee_Knight/status/1185755719762620416 https://twitter.com/Aimee_Knight/status/1185755719762620416 People piled on and responded abusively. An acquaintance of hers, John Sonmez a lifestyle vlogger (who's shtick is apparently telling people how to be a man) waded into twitter and aggressively told off everyone who was attacking in an effort to deflect the attacks, here is his video talking about what he did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvjQ3Mx-jWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvjQ3Mx-jWg He was about one notch more civil than the sterotype of a foul mouthed 13yr/old boy playing a first person shooter on xbox. (or at least I don't think he actually told someone that he *ed their mother... but you get the idea...) Predictable consequences were predictable and included getting his books pulled by publishers and other serious fallout. Charles Max Wood (cmaxw), subject of the open letter, was friends with Jonh Sonmez and was pressured to disassociate with John. He said he didn't approve of John's remarks but declined to disassociate, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5jY1FQHLdk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5jY1FQHLdk and tried reaching out to people to insert himself as a mediator. https://mobile.twitter.com/cmaxw/status/1187108668606541824 https://mobile.twitter.com/cmaxw/status/1187108668606541824 This was not welcome by some people who described his calls for civility as tone policing. (and worse: https://mobile.twitter.com/KimCrayton1/status/1187111248678326276 https://mobile.twitter.com/KimCrayton1/status/11871112486783... ) A 2016 picture of cmaxw visiting the trump tower wearing a MAGA hat, was found and was used to support an argument against cmaxw: https://twitter.com/nebrius/status/1191821800302206976 https://twitter.com/nebrius/status/1191821800302206976 The events covered in the letter pick up from there. [If I'm entirely off place, lemme know quickly so I can fix or nuke this post. I freely admit that I am entirely incompetent at sorting out twitter dramafests, I try to never use twitter: It says right in the name what it's for: Twits. And who has time for twits?]