I've found @jacobian's statement on the matter [1] eminently reasonable and even-handed. As for the trifecta, I can't help you out on "lynch mob", I'm afraid,

I've found @jacobian's statement on the matter [1] eminently reasonable and even-handed. As for the trifecta, I can't help you out on "lynch mob", I'm afraid, but how about this for McCarthyism? "The [tech industry] is infested with [sexists]. I have here in my hand [2] a list of [102] -- a list of [user]names that were made known to the [Github administrators] as being members of the [sexist majority] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the [tech industry]." [3] [1] https://twitter.com/jacobian/status/417776560603549696 https://twitter.com/jacobian/status/417776560603549696 [2] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a3j7b1RFN1IJ:https://twitter.com/ashedryden/status/411614204152385536+ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a3j7b1R... (This link points to Google's cache of @ashedryden's tweet, because the tweet as originally hosted on Twitter has been deleted since I saw it last. I hope you'll agree that Google's cache is an acceptably authoritative source for what used to be hosted at that Twitter URL. The replies are more interesting than the original tweet, anyway.) [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy#Wheeling_speech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy#Wheeling_speech