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>What exactly did she do? I recall she complained on Twitter, and exercised her freedom of speech to express her opinion.

What she did was escalate, and that unwisely.

She added identifying info. Anyone familiar with the internet knows what can happen.

Say I'm wrong, and that she never meant for it to get so out of hand. Where was her defense of mr-hank? She could have stopped the madness or even reversed it after the fact with the right blog post. Perhaps she felt culturally unsafe in a big conference room surrounded by a bunch of white male Christian programmers, but when you complain, and someone gets fired over it, turns out you had more power than you thought, and with that comes responsibility.

In short: she started a lynch mob fight, and lost.



How about you don’t tell me what I’m going to say in response to you, and then you don’t argue with yourself?

What I’ll actually say is that you appear to have decided that she got what she deserved, and everything you’re arguing is post-facto reasoning to rationalize the decision you’ve already made.

I might as well have a discussion with a volleyball.


He didn't say what you were going to respond.

"Say I'm wrong, and that she never meant for it to get so out of hand." Is him saying "let's assume I'm wrong, and etc etc"

Comparing people with a volleyball, on the other hand, is pretty clearly an insult/ad hominem.




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