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> so it's 3 days before Christmas and you wake up to discover the organization YOU created and built from the ground up has been taken away by a rogue board wit

> so it's 3 days before Christmas and you wake up to discover the organization YOU created and built from the ground up has been taken away by a rogue board with no notification If this isn't cancel culture run amok, then I don't know what is. Somehow, we've enabled a culture that now assumes one is guilty until proven innocent. The worst part about this is that there is zero transparency around the alleged offenses. We were supposed to be moving towards a more transparent society, this is anything but transparent.

dopamean 5y ago
If you read the Glassdoor reviews employees have had the same issues with her leadership for quite a long time now. Calling accountability that came too late "cancel culture" is dismissive of peoples real issues and just plain stupid.
- thr0wawayf00 5y ago
  To force her out without making a definitive statement does not create good optics. It looks like some power-hungry board members wanted her out. I don't doubt that she has critics from within the org, but to push her out without clearly stating why does not look good at all.
  - dopamean 5y ago
    I don’t disagree that perhaps this wasn’t handled well. I was just taking issue with calling someone being fired for just reasons "cancel culture."
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  - cedilla 5y ago
    It's revealing that you accuse an organisation's organ for not following criminal trial standards when making a preliminary decision, but you have no problem to denounce strangers "power hungry" and "rogue" without even having the slightest insight into their decisions or motivations. You just assumed it's cancel culture and ran with it. You lost all your passion for "innocence until guilty" before you even finished typing your post...
  - dpark 5y ago
    How do you propose they should have handled this? From the article, it seems like they quietly removed her during an investigation and she’s the one who made this a big public affair via twitter.
    - goldcd 5y ago
      Indeed. "X having built an outstanding organization is moing on to persue new challenges. We wish X the very best and look forward to what they do next" I mean we all know this means they've been fired/ousted, but normally benefits both sides to leave it at this. Now I'm looking forward to the juicy gossip opens pop-corn
      - detaro 5y ago
        Why would they say that when > In an emailed statement to Insider, Black Girls Code's board said that Bryant remains on the company's staff while "serious allegations of workplace impropriety are being investigated." i.e. they haven't removed her entirely yet?
roywiggins 5y ago
"Bryant's tweets drew an outpouring of support and sympathy from many in the tech community who expressed shock at the news of her removal from the nonprofit's leadership." Doesn't sound like the "culture" is assuming she's guilty. I have no clue what the truth is, but it sounds like she's got a lot of supporters.
- gentleman11 5y ago
  That’s uncommon. Usually the knives come out for anything even slightly alleged towards somebody
JaimeThompson 5y ago
The Dixie Chicks show that "cancel culture" isn't a new thing not at all.
- dbingham 5y ago
  Nor something created by the left and the woke :shrug:
- CodeGlitch 5y ago
  I dunno - recent cancelling feels different. Take J K Rowling as an example: https://www.thenational.scot/news/19723926.harry-potter-reunion-jk-rowling-will-not-join-cast-trans-rights-row/ https://www.thenational.scot/news/19723926.harry-potter-reun... Cancelled from her own creation, for having a pretty uncontroversial viewpoint.
jancsika 5y ago
> We were supposed to be moving towards a more transparent society, this is anything but transparent. You have to love that the chief way HN addresses this concern trolling is for users to click a button that literally makes the comment more difficult to read. :)
- gopher_space 5y ago
  I've upvoted for legibility before. HN can get, again literally, harder to read when school is out.

dopamean 5y ago

If you read the Glassdoor reviews employees have had the same issues with her leadership for quite a long time now. Calling accountability that came too late "cancel culture" is dismissive of peoples real issues and just plain stupid.

thr0wawayf00 5y ago
To force her out without making a definitive statement does not create good optics. It looks like some power-hungry board members wanted her out. I don't doubt that she has critics from within the org, but to push her out without clearly stating why does not look good at all.
- dopamean 5y ago
  I don’t disagree that perhaps this wasn’t handled well. I was just taking issue with calling someone being fired for just reasons "cancel culture."
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- cedilla 5y ago
  It's revealing that you accuse an organisation's organ for not following criminal trial standards when making a preliminary decision, but you have no problem to denounce strangers "power hungry" and "rogue" without even having the slightest insight into their decisions or motivations. You just assumed it's cancel culture and ran with it. You lost all your passion for "innocence until guilty" before you even finished typing your post...
- dpark 5y ago
  How do you propose they should have handled this? From the article, it seems like they quietly removed her during an investigation and she’s the one who made this a big public affair via twitter.
  - goldcd 5y ago
    Indeed. "X having built an outstanding organization is moing on to persue new challenges. We wish X the very best and look forward to what they do next" I mean we all know this means they've been fired/ousted, but normally benefits both sides to leave it at this. Now I'm looking forward to the juicy gossip opens pop-corn
    - detaro 5y ago
      Why would they say that when > In an emailed statement to Insider, Black Girls Code's board said that Bryant remains on the company's staff while "serious allegations of workplace impropriety are being investigated." i.e. they haven't removed her entirely yet?

roywiggins 5y ago

"Bryant's tweets drew an outpouring of support and sympathy from many in the tech community who expressed shock at the news of her removal from the nonprofit's leadership." Doesn't sound like the "culture" is assuming she's guilty. I have no clue what the truth is, but it sounds like she's got a lot of supporters.

gentleman11 5y ago
That’s uncommon. Usually the knives come out for anything even slightly alleged towards somebody

JaimeThompson 5y ago

The Dixie Chicks show that "cancel culture" isn't a new thing not at all.

dbingham 5y ago
Nor something created by the left and the woke :shrug:
CodeGlitch 5y ago
I dunno - recent cancelling feels different. Take J K Rowling as an example: https://www.thenational.scot/news/19723926.harry-potter-reunion-jk-rowling-will-not-join-cast-trans-rights-row/ https://www.thenational.scot/news/19723926.harry-potter-reun... Cancelled from her own creation, for having a pretty uncontroversial viewpoint.

jancsika 5y ago

> We were supposed to be moving towards a more transparent society, this is anything but transparent. You have to love that the chief way HN addresses this concern trolling is for users to click a button that literally makes the comment more difficult to read. :)

gopher_space 5y ago
I've upvoted for legibility before. HN can get, again literally, harder to read when school is out.