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by crassus 13y ago
I agree with you. I just think "not racist and sexist" is a ridiculously high standard. I don't know when we adopted the idea that X-ism is the worst thing in the world, but it's a completely impossible to stamp out. And
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by crassus 13y ago
I would never work with him or one of the other SJWs in tech (Alex Gaynor, Bryan Cantrill, Adria Richards). You know they would be more than happy to ruin you if you slip up and say something remotely non-progressive, or that can be twisted
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by crassus 13y ago
All the liberal white guys growing up to middle class parents in California read that and say "I guess I should feel really guilty for all I've been given in life". All the white guys that grew up in the poor rural South and
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by crassus 13y ago
Having grown up in a poor rural area without access to the internet until the age of 18, I get pretty pissed off when leftists judge me based on my genitals and skin color. Where do they get off assuming that I've had everything in lif
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by crassus 13y ago
How much sexism and racism is there really in the tech industry? Most tech companies are quite the rainbow - 5 or 6 different native languages in a small company is not uncommon.
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by crassus 13y ago
I remember this guy, for starters. Nobody's holier than him: https://mobile.twitter.com/jacobian/status/41791439674503168... https://mobile.twitter.com/jacobian/status/41790492741167
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by crassus 13y ago
Everybody is a little racist and sexist. It's quite normal for you to react differently depending on the visible characteristics of a person you are talking to, it's ingrained through millions of years of evolution. What's im
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by crassus 13y ago
You can't prove that you're not a witch. Someday, the community can wake up and decide that witch-hunting is not a respectable hobby.
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by crassus 13y ago
The weird secret of Social Justice, including the "all white men are evil, because the group on average is successful" faction, is that it's mostly white men bullying other white men.
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by crassus 13y ago
Point taken. I object to the phrasing though. People having their own individual interests, sometimes non-technical, is not a problem. It's cool to expose people to options though! I wish I had access to a male-friendly version of a pr
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by crassus 13y ago
Accusing others of being witches shows off your own moral purity. It also gives a feeling of power, a critical mass of the American tech crowd comes from the PC left that is large enough to set off a mob. The ultimate feeling of importance
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by crassus 13y ago
Nobody can ever account for all unconscious bias. It's the original sin doctrine of the social justice warrior community.
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by crassus 13y ago
And what are you going to do if your daughter wants to be a veterinarian? Is that a problem?
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by crassus 13y ago
Developers underestimate their value and their ability to say "no". If you are a productive coder, the job market is great. If you take vacation assertively (say, six weeks a year) bosses simply can't afford to object.
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by crassus 13y ago
The concept of a struggle session might help understand what's going on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session Also, Moldbug: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/09&#x2
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by crassus 13y ago
I disagree with this. I've seen blogs use completely unedited interviews with ideological enemies, leaving in "ums" and "you knows?" and it looks terrible. Probably every decent interview you've ever seen was l
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by crassus 13y ago
After reading his tweets, my opinion of Jacob Kaplan Moss is more unmixed. I would never want to work with him on anything, even something as small as a lemonade stand. Keep that SJW BS out of tech and in English departments on the East Coa
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by crassus 13y ago
> "It's been my experience that when men feel like they're walking on eggshells around women in the workplace it's because they're normally comfortable making sexists/rape jokes and/or have sexist belie
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by crassus 13y ago
Liberal != left/progressive. Liberals were people that supported free exchange of ideas, believing that truth would be discovered through open argument (think John Stuart Mill). Progressives are pretty much the opposite of that.
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by crassus 13y ago
I observed an incubator program where there was an early-20s founder who was very fratty, taking shots in the office with his team to celebrate releases and stuff like that. That team all lived together. As founders age into their late 20s,
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by crassus 13y ago
I wonder if part of it is that hackers look down on female-dominated lines of work. We imagine that being like us is the best thing in the world. It is a decent line of work, mind you, but it has its downsides and not everybody is cut out f
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by crassus 13y ago
"Equality" movements are doomed to fail. I don't believe that in a perfectly fair world, men and women would equally participate in every profession. If you focus too much on outcome you are taking on an impossible task. What
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by crassus 13y ago
I feel bad for the female children of HN. I imagine them thinking, "Why do all the adults in my life want me to be a computer programmer? I want to be a veterinarian or teacher, but daddy says that's a patriarchal stereotype.&quot
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by crassus 13y ago
I blame it on universal college education. At least I ran into this stuff in college for the first time. SJW stuff is too alien and strange for most people to believe without indoctrination. But now there is an audience demanding burning o
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by crassus 13y ago
He was part of pronoun-gate? That was one of the stupidest, most counter-productive brouhahas of all time. Something tells me that purging your best devs for being insufficiently progressive is not going to attract more females.
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by crassus 13y ago
One thing that nobody is mentioning is that many "fratty" companies have been wildly successful. That's why VCs aren't cracking down on startups to make them more professional. (Although it is a good idea to become more
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by crassus 13y ago
I wish him luck on his follow-up essay about female founders. What's valuable about a PG essay is 1) his careful analysis and 2) generalization from his wealth of experience. But if he does (2) at all, he's going to piss off Socia
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by crassus 13y ago
I'm of mixed opinions about him. On the one hand, he's been influential in making Pycon more friendly to women, which I support[1]. On the other hand, he appears to have swallowed the feminist kool-aid without reflection. He has a
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by crassus 13y ago
At the heart of the matter is that witch-burnings are popular (turn into clicks) and that Gawker has a witch quota to keep up. I'm glad to see such a thorough, intelligent reply from PG. He is extremely careful and precise in his langu
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by crassus 13y ago
The percent of female bouncyballers has been going down, but has the absolute number?

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