I've worked at Kraken for almost 6 years, and know Jesse pretty well. He acquired my project and I reported to him for a while. I manage a large engineering tea

I've worked at Kraken for almost 6 years, and know Jesse pretty well. He acquired my project and I reported to him for a while. I manage a large engineering team here. I think you and many others are misinterpreting what he wrote. He's not defending the use of the N-word and I've never, ever seen anyone use language remotely close to that in internal communications. I think the example he gave is the ridiculous scenario of someone identifying as a different race so they can have permission to use the N word. I think people are getting outraged over literally nothing with this story, I've found the vast majority of people working at Kraken to be perfectly reasonable and respectful to each other. I don't understand why everyone on HN/Twitter is so eager to get outraged over stories like this when they have so little detail and context.