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If you think there is no "abuse, harassment, and discrimination" in the medical, legal, accounting and non-IT engineering professions, you are not paying attent
by spikels 11y ago
If you think there is no "abuse, harassment, and discrimination" in the medical, legal, accounting and non-IT engineering professions, you are not paying attention. These are global human problems not restricted to IT/CS.
- leereeves 11y agoI didn't mean to imply that there is no "abuse, harassment, and discrimination" in other professions. Of course there are bad people in every field. But are there death threats, rape threats, doxxing, etc, against total strangers? Serious question. I just haven't heard of that, except perhaps in the military and police.
- enneff 11y ago> But are there death threats, rape threats, doxxing, etc, against total strangers? These kinds of things are much easier to perpetrate on the Internet, so they are endemic in communities that are mostly Internet-based. That explains their prevalence in the tech community, but note that they occur in many other online communities (see: computer gaming).
- MaysonL 11y agoSee, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence#Murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence#Murders