> He’s a white male. I’m a black Jewish female. He was saying things that could be inferred as offensive to me, sitting in front of him. It must get really tir

> He’s a white male. I’m a black Jewish female. He was saying things that could be inferred as offensive to me, sitting in front of him. It must get really tiring, carrying such a heavy chip on the shoulder. How is anybody supposed to know she's Jewish? If they did know and modified their behavior accordingly, they might end up being called bigoted. Is there any way to win this one in Richards's book? "Could be inferred as offensive to me" -- wow. Again, how is anybody supposed to know what could offend you? If this is the standard for offense, it looks like the only winning move in communication is not to do any at all. I'd feel worse about dredging this up so many months later, but Richards is active on Twitter lately arguing about it, so I'm not really opening old wounds. Maybe she has a legitimate beef about the exact timeline and chain of cause and effect as reported in the article, but righting that would really not make her look significantly better IMO. She dug her hole deeper in this new interview (at least the way it's presented to us), regardless of small errors it may have about the post. P.S. Even if this is their fault for offending her with the joke, it doesn't follow that it's right for people to lose jobs over it. The article seems to suggest she intended that ("... people are like, ‘Adria didn’t know what she was doing by tweeting it.’ Yes, I did.") Her justification for this disproportionate response is some mishmash of the offense, race, gender, and that the offender wasn't mentally retarded (seriously.) "No one would have known he got fired until he complained... Maybe he’s to blame for complaining that he got fired." I can agree that it probably would have not turned so ugly if this fact hadn't come out. But this is not a card Richards can play without hypocrisy, IMO. They both experienced something negative in relative private, that provoked an emotional response that led them to post publicly about, that caused the "righteous pitchfork mobs" to react. If Richards had the right to tweet about the joke, "Hank" had the right to post his own negative aftermath on Hacker News. She found out the sword of righteous crusading on the internet cuts both ways, but does not admit her part in it. Also, to be clear, I in no way condone the threats to Adria Richards and have mixed feelings about her losing her job.