"5. The internet outrage suddenly switches to him. The employee of Business Insider calls him an asshole on twitter." This is incorrect -- Anil Dash doesn't wo

"5. The internet outrage suddenly switches to him. The employee of Business Insider calls him an asshole on twitter." This is incorrect -- Anil Dash doesn't work for Business Insider. Agree with your first and second takeaways. Beyond that..not so much. You mentioned potential cultural differences, here's my American perspective: While the tweets in question may be a small sample of the overall volume, you just can't make those statements as an officer of a company. Period. Because: -He used the N word. Sounds like he was referencing a movie out around then, but given our country's history, that word is just 100% off limits and rightfully so. -In the US, we're finally coming around to the fact that gay people aren't a scourge on society. We also (especially in tech) are working to make the workplace more friendly to women than it has been in the past. We're also a very litigious country, meaning that having an officer making those kinds of statements about protected classes while being involved in hiring/firing decisions exposes the company to risks that 95+% of executives would be wise/willing enough not to expose their employer to. You may be right that most people have tweeted something that would outrage people, but if you want to be one of the faces of a company, part of your job is not doing that. I tweeted plenty of dumb stuff (not racist/sexist, mind you) while drunk in college and with a privacy-protected account. Given that I aspire to hold an executive-level position, I went through and removed all of those tweets as I was nearing graduation and made my account public, and I avoid those types of posts now. Image matters.