458aperta
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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
As per theverge article, they did nothing when anti-semitic memes and jokes were being posted by their employees.
So what can we take away from this? Github's "professional conduct at workplace" and "diversity" is complete farce.
I'm ready to move to bitbucket after this incident. When you promote people who share hatred, this means the company at the top probably also shares the same vision.
This is a PR disaster for github and there is NO WAY I can support github going forward.
Once again, somebody has flagged every single criticisms of Github's original decision. Is this Github doing damage control? I'm going to move our team completely off github now.
Comment · 5 years ago
see my profile. all flagged. definitely not deliberate at all as my comments weren't even inflammatory or breaking HN rules.
Just some old timer users afraid that not everybody is buying into his/her/their narrative.
Comment · 5 years ago
Divide & conquer. This is the war that is being waged on America; your minds. Who has the most intimate and proximity in determining what the collective sees? The device in your pocket is how people view the world. Nobody is reading books, nobody is practicing critical thinking anymore.
If I was a foreign power I wouldn't go up militarily against the US, that would be disastrous. Instead, I would head to the universities, I would fund the companies that are in close proximity to the consumer of popular media. I would start 20,30,40 years ago and slowly change what the people in your country thinks about their status quo. The top brass doesn't care because they don't see weapons. Underpaid, underappreciated, unscrupulous individuals are easily won over. Again, the decision makers don't see the enemies here. Then one day, the small cuts collectively add up and the wounds begin to rot from within. Once again, nobody raises alarms because they are incentivized or naivete from being #1 for so long.
I would go even further by focusing on the existential crisis of the non-majority ethnic groups and exploit it into hating the very country they are in because of isms. Then you go to the other side which is the conservative portion of the majority ruling class and sell them the idea that those people are ungrateful and hostile.
Throw technology and fast food equivalent of entertainment that creates a population addicted to the short bursts of serotonin and you just might be witnessing what you are seeing today.
Bonus points for dividing the political ruling class by feeding exploitative information true or not that will be weaponized.
It's good to see Microsoft still keeping up the good fight.
"Dont be evil" seems like a distant alternative universe...