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Shouldn't. But see this exchange in the archive (https://archive.is/jouWQ#selection-17025.0-17025.134 https://archive.is/jouWQ#selection-17025.0-17025.134) 'H

Shouldn't. But see this exchange in the archive (https://archive.is/jouWQ#selection-17025.0-17025.134 https://archive.is/jouWQ#selection-17025.0-17025.134) 'Have you felt regretful for rushing to judgement after condemning the "perpetrators" of the Duke lacrosse rape scandal during 2006-07?' 'No, the pattern is consistent. And we never want injustice to occur. But the pattern is fairly obvious, and a very obvious pattern that must be ended.' The Reverend isn't interested in fairness to individuals, he's interested in "patterns". If he feels himself subjected to a pattern he feels unfair, well, fairness to any individual is less important than ending that pattern. The Reverend is not the guy you'd want arguing with Yahweh to spare Sodom and Gomorrah lest He unjustly punish the innocent with the guilty.

kelukelugames 11y ago
My heart goes out to the athletes ruined by the scandal. There is another point of view. Something us Internet commenters don't often realize. Do you have any black friends who was at Duke during that time? Ask them to describe it.
- oh_sigh 11y ago
  How about you describe it for us, instead of making us hunt down one of approximately 600 people in the world.
  - kelukelugames 11y ago
    That's a good ask. I wasn't trying to be snarky. I really don't understand it that well and I don't think it means as much coming from an Asian person. And honestly I'm not comfortable arguing about it on a public forum.
    - oh_sigh 11y ago
      Well, I didn't take it for being snarky. I also don't want to engage in any kind of argument, I just want to hear about the point you were trying to make. You even said it was "something us Internet commenters don't often realize", so this would be a great forum to share the viewpoint, since it is almost by definition filled with internetters
geofft 11y ago
Maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm not sure I see how that relates to the departure of a Reddit employee facilitating that AMA. He answered the question, right? Whether the answer is terrible maybe impacts what you think of him, but not what you think of the person making the AMA happen (either as a person or as an employee), right? Or did he not actually answer the question, and did someone else answer in his place? Or is there more going on, like he regretted that answer?
- ForEnglandJames 11y ago
  Let me explain this in simple terms so everyone here can understand what's going on 1) Pao is still intent on shaking down the silicon valley establishment. She's made that very clear by here refusal to settle with KP, even after the embarrassing loss in the original case. Probably to bail out Ole Buddy, her hubby. 2) Jesse Jackson has decided to go where the real money is and start shaking down silicon valley for donations to his rainbow putsch coalition 3) Pao and Jackson are now aligned in intent--both want the moral high ground in their scheme to extort money from silicon valley using whatever weird false narrative of priviledge they can create 4) Pao invites the Right Reverend to do an AMA, likely coordinated by Victoria in order to start the press game for his campaign 5) Reddit users hurl abuse (rightfully so) at the Right Grifter Jackson over his continued race-baiting and hypocrisy (having an affair while 'counselling' president Clinton over his affair? Jesus Christ!) 6) Jackson gets pissed because he can't control the message. His people likely say something to Chairman Pao's people. 7) Pao realizes she done goofed and potentially lost a valuable ally in her extortion scheme. 8) Pao uses Victoria as a scapegoat to try to save face and fires her on the spot. Now, all of this is rumor, but c'mon, you know it's what happened. It's common sense.
- jammi 11y ago
  He probably refretted the answer, because it's like he didn't even read the question before answering with some boilerplate answer, which is probably why the question got rated so high after the answer. I do. But I was jailed in 1960. For trying to use a public library. And that caused more good than harm. I marched to end segregation. The day Dr. King spoke on Washington, in 1963, I was there for that speech. That day, from Texas to Florida, you couldn't use a single public toilet. We could not buy ice cream at Howard Johnson's, or stay in Holiday Inns. We fought to bring those barriers down. And because those walls are down, all the new interstate construction across the South - the new bridges and ports, and seaports - that's progress. You couldn't have teams behind the Cotton Curtain. You couldn't have had Olympics in Atlanta behind the Cotton Curtain. You couldn't have Toyota, and Michelin, behind the Cotton Curtain, so we pulled those walls down. So our work has been beneficial. And it seems to me that people who benefit from that work ascribe it to the wrong reasons. When the laws change to make the South more civil, that brought in more investment. So we've made America better. All these changes have come from our work. Our work has bene good for the South, and good for America. My goal is to expand our consciousness, to create as big a tent as possible, as we fight for justice and world peace. I was able to bring Americans home from jail, from prison, and gaining those freedom of those Americans was the highest and best use of my talents and time.

kelukelugames 11y ago

My heart goes out to the athletes ruined by the scandal. There is another point of view. Something us Internet commenters don't often realize. Do you have any black friends who was at Duke during that time? Ask them to describe it.

oh_sigh 11y ago
How about you describe it for us, instead of making us hunt down one of approximately 600 people in the world.
- kelukelugames 11y ago
  That's a good ask. I wasn't trying to be snarky. I really don't understand it that well and I don't think it means as much coming from an Asian person. And honestly I'm not comfortable arguing about it on a public forum.
  - oh_sigh 11y ago
    Well, I didn't take it for being snarky. I also don't want to engage in any kind of argument, I just want to hear about the point you were trying to make. You even said it was "something us Internet commenters don't often realize", so this would be a great forum to share the viewpoint, since it is almost by definition filled with internetters

geofft 11y ago

Maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm not sure I see how that relates to the departure of a Reddit employee facilitating that AMA. He answered the question, right? Whether the answer is terrible maybe impacts what you think of him, but not what you think of the person making the AMA happen (either as a person or as an employee), right? Or did he not actually answer the question, and did someone else answer in his place? Or is there more going on, like he regretted that answer?

ForEnglandJames 11y ago
Let me explain this in simple terms so everyone here can understand what's going on 1) Pao is still intent on shaking down the silicon valley establishment. She's made that very clear by here refusal to settle with KP, even after the embarrassing loss in the original case. Probably to bail out Ole Buddy, her hubby. 2) Jesse Jackson has decided to go where the real money is and start shaking down silicon valley for donations to his rainbow putsch coalition 3) Pao and Jackson are now aligned in intent--both want the moral high ground in their scheme to extort money from silicon valley using whatever weird false narrative of priviledge they can create 4) Pao invites the Right Reverend to do an AMA, likely coordinated by Victoria in order to start the press game for his campaign 5) Reddit users hurl abuse (rightfully so) at the Right Grifter Jackson over his continued race-baiting and hypocrisy (having an affair while 'counselling' president Clinton over his affair? Jesus Christ!) 6) Jackson gets pissed because he can't control the message. His people likely say something to Chairman Pao's people. 7) Pao realizes she done goofed and potentially lost a valuable ally in her extortion scheme. 8) Pao uses Victoria as a scapegoat to try to save face and fires her on the spot. Now, all of this is rumor, but c'mon, you know it's what happened. It's common sense.
jammi 11y ago
He probably refretted the answer, because it's like he didn't even read the question before answering with some boilerplate answer, which is probably why the question got rated so high after the answer. I do. But I was jailed in 1960. For trying to use a public library. And that caused more good than harm. I marched to end segregation. The day Dr. King spoke on Washington, in 1963, I was there for that speech. That day, from Texas to Florida, you couldn't use a single public toilet. We could not buy ice cream at Howard Johnson's, or stay in Holiday Inns. We fought to bring those barriers down. And because those walls are down, all the new interstate construction across the South - the new bridges and ports, and seaports - that's progress. You couldn't have teams behind the Cotton Curtain. You couldn't have had Olympics in Atlanta behind the Cotton Curtain. You couldn't have Toyota, and Michelin, behind the Cotton Curtain, so we pulled those walls down. So our work has been beneficial. And it seems to me that people who benefit from that work ascribe it to the wrong reasons. When the laws change to make the South more civil, that brought in more investment. So we've made America better. All these changes have come from our work. Our work has bene good for the South, and good for America. My goal is to expand our consciousness, to create as big a tent as possible, as we fight for justice and world peace. I was able to bring Americans home from jail, from prison, and gaining those freedom of those Americans was the highest and best use of my talents and time.