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> Nobody's getting 'cancelled' for bad social skills. People have been cancelled for less. Here's a guy facing a closed door tribunal for jokingly saying in a
by MauranKilom 6y ago
> Nobody's getting 'cancelled' for bad social skills.
People have been cancelled for less.
Here's a guy facing a closed door tribunal for jokingly saying in a keynote that someone was wrong on technical points:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926214
Here is someone getting character-assassinated because... We don't know why. This guy made others uncomfortable, or so the organizers said. Other examples of similar stories in there too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12422420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12422420
The discussion of whether what RMS has done in the past (and still does? I don't know? Did he repent?) crosses a line in the sand that you (and others) see between bad social skills and actual harassment needs more nuance than "people don't get cancelled for the wrong reasons".