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Did you seriously just waltz in here and drop a link to brietbart.com.

nailer 12y ago
You're free to read the Elizabeth Spiers article or the person's own tweets, but generally on HN we respond to the point rather than the source. You can find plenty of linked evidence on this person's own twitter account, including such gems as https://twitter.com/shanley/status/487669792862511104 https://twitter.com/shanley/status/487669792862511104. This person is a well known online troll and their work 'towards' diversity in technology is a mechanism for gaining attention and counterproductive to their stated cause.
- zimpenfish 12y ago
  I don't quite get the "gemness" of that one - Tinder demonstrated that theory quite effectively not that long ago, did it not?
  - nailer 12y ago
    Making broad statements about others based on race and gender is ignorant.
    - zimpenfish 12y ago
      I don't think -many- people (outside of the obvious communities) would take umbrage with "white males are often dicks to women in business situations" given the preponderance of evidence.
      - nailer 12y ago
        Sure if that's what was said, but in this case, it wasn't.
        zimpenfish 12y ago
        In that case I've entirely missed what was said because the words I read just seem to be about male cofounders potentially being dicks. I definitely cannot see Milo's "he'll rape you one day" interpretation but I suspect that's largely because he's made that up.
        nailer 12y ago
        It's in the context of sexual assault. If you don't think "beware of (skin color) (gender)" is bad, change it to another ethnicity or gender.
        zimpenfish 12y ago
        There is no context in a single tweet - and there's no mention of sexual assault in the replies I can see. Where does the "he will rape you" come from? Is there another tweet I can look at? Or a Storify collection of them?
zimpenfish 12y ago
And not just any breitbart link, but one to Milo "Toxic Insanity" Yiannopoulus quoting Pax "Asshat in Public" Dickinson. Genius.

You're free to read the Elizabeth Spiers article or the person's own tweets, but generally on HN we respond to the point rather than the source. You can find plenty of linked evidence on this person's own twitter account, including such gems as https://twitter.com/shanley/status/487669792862511104 https://twitter.com/shanley/status/487669792862511104. This person is a well known online troll and their work 'towards' diversity in technology is a mechanism for gaining attention and counterproductive to their stated cause.

zimpenfish 12y ago
I don't quite get the "gemness" of that one - Tinder demonstrated that theory quite effectively not that long ago, did it not?
- nailer 12y ago
  Making broad statements about others based on race and gender is ignorant.
  - zimpenfish 12y ago
    I don't think -many- people (outside of the obvious communities) would take umbrage with "white males are often dicks to women in business situations" given the preponderance of evidence.
    - nailer 12y ago
      Sure if that's what was said, but in this case, it wasn't.
      - zimpenfish 12y ago
        In that case I've entirely missed what was said because the words I read just seem to be about male cofounders potentially being dicks. I definitely cannot see Milo's "he'll rape you one day" interpretation but I suspect that's largely because he's made that up.
        nailer 12y ago
        It's in the context of sexual assault. If you don't think "beware of (skin color) (gender)" is bad, change it to another ethnicity or gender.
        zimpenfish 12y ago
        There is no context in a single tweet - and there's no mention of sexual assault in the replies I can see. Where does the "he will rape you" come from? Is there another tweet I can look at? Or a Storify collection of them?

zimpenfish 12y ago

And not just any breitbart link, but one to Milo "Toxic Insanity" Yiannopoulus quoting Pax "Asshat in Public" Dickinson. Genius.