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If you read the story, it seems pretty clear that he went a little overboard with his self-loathing apology. Hence my comment.
by ceilingcorner 5y ago
If you read the story, it seems pretty clear that he went a little overboard with his self-loathing apology. Hence my comment.
- tptacek 5y agoThe apology was posted in the context of people accusing him of specific misconduct, which allegations he does not seem to have rebutted at the time. You can be charitable and describe the apology as "self-loathing", but his clients can also take the reasonable interpretation that he's admitting culpabilty. Happy to have someone else dig into the Twitter threads of the time and refute me on this!
- ceilingcorner 5y agoIf you read the comments in this topic by him, it’s clear that the accusations do not line up with what he felt he did wrong.
- tptacek 5y agoThe people who cut their ties with him only have his interactions from the time to go on, not what he's saying here. But I think we're going around in circles here. I'm just pushing back on the invocation of "puritanism".
- ceilingcorner 5y agoI used Puritanism to refer to a specific cultural belief. Not just this specific situation. Honestly, I find your comment chain here very irrelevant to the point I was making.