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I personally find this article's brand of narcissism-masquerading-as-activism really upsetting. This is not a blog entry about uncovering the seedy side of Goog
by ender7 15y ago
I personally find this article's brand of narcissism-masquerading-as-activism really upsetting. This is not a blog entry about uncovering the seedy side of Google and how they abuse their employees. The only information of this kind to be found in the article is that a). Google has contract workers and b). they're mostly minorities. That's it.
The rest of the blog entry is a passive-aggressive lament wherein the author attempts to convert the reader's sympathy for said workers into sympathy for himself and his treatment at the hands of Google. If this were really an article about class conflict in tech companies, that might be interesting, but it's not. The way the author flings around adjectives that border on insults ("chubby white man"; "sedate black guard" -- what?) indicates that he doesn't really have any substantial background in race, class, or gender studies. Nor does he have anything interesting to say on those subjects.
As it is, this is (passive-aggressive) mud-flinging with no real evidence or substance behind it.
- Cherian_Abraham 15y agoI would have preferred to see your response up there instead of his. More substance. Less abuse.
- bane 15y agoYou are absolutely right about my poor tone and I apologize. I should have taken a deep breath, counted to 10 and wrote when I was calmer. While I stand by the substance of what I wrote, on reflection, my tone was rather poor. Thanks for calling me out on it. It was unbecoming of the kind of discussion we want to see on HN even if I did find the entire OP wildly offensive on numerous fronts. Chalk it up to an embarrassing lesson learned.
- Cherian_Abraham 15y agoTakes balls to admit it. Group hug!
- bostonpete 15y agoIt may have been a bit over the top, but I, for one, enjoyed the read. Thanks. :-)