andrewdupont

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by andrewdupont 12y ago
You're equating the two kinds of investigating. The "counter-investigation" you're talking about is retaliatory — write something we don't like and we'll punish you with details about your personal life. Journa
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by andrewdupont 14y ago
> Had those two men been women, would we be having a discussion of the danger of stalking, death threats, and abuse that Richards put them in? Yes.
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by andrewdupont 14y ago
> "But that issue has nothing to do with PyCon, women in tech, or software development." I disagree. The shitheads in our community who would stoop to death threats do not threaten everyone equally . The way I know that is that a woman
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by andrewdupont 14y ago
> "It is unfortunate that Richards received the huge storms of abuse that she did. But she chose to handle the situation in a way that invited that abuse, when there were clear ways to "speak up" that would not have resulted in such abu
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by andrewdupont 14y ago
I know I wouldn't give a damn. If your goal is that nobody on earth would bat an eye, that's a pretty high bar to clear. Keep in mind that some people (and a healthy percentage of them represented here on HN) find the existence of Pyladies
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by andrewdupont 14y ago
Are you inside her brain right now? Or are you just arrogant enough to imagine you know her motives?
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by andrewdupont 14y ago
Take a look at the sociological definition of racism on the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Sociological
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by andrewdupont 14y ago
The difference between racism (an institutionalized system wherein a majority race discriminates against minority races) and racism (an arbitrary action that reveals a preference of one race over another) is a constant source of confusi
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by andrewdupont 14y ago
Is a joke about a 'big dongle' a sexual joke, or an anatomical joke? I feel like you're being willfully obtuse here. The penis is commonly used for exactly two things. Sex is the only reason why anyone would consider it advantageous to
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by andrewdupont 14y ago
You could've read this thread to find the answers to most of your questions. Yes, the two gentlemen in question did make these jokes; one of them admits as much in this thread, and said so to the PyCon organizers when they investigated the
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by andrewdupont 14y ago
You do realize that opinion pieces don't necessarily follow the traditional lede-plus-nut-graf formula, right? And that some pieces aren't meant to be skimmed? > Furthermore, it's a magazine FOR MEN so most of the words were Anglo-Saxo