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Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors

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Re: Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Implying that op intentionally omitted wilson-thompson If you mean that the alleged "intent" of the OP is political, I don't see how the comment implies that. To point out that the edited headline no longer includes Kathleen Wilson-Thompson isn't accusatory. It's just a statement of fact. To "exclude" is but the opposite of "include."

> If you mean that the alleged "intent" of the OP is political, I don't see how the comment implies that. It's pretty obviously the intent. They didn't use the very specific identity of her name, or the more general "other appointee" or any other simple generalization. They specifically pointed out "the woman of color", which pretty clearly shows their intent to be suggesting that she was excluded because of her race…

It's one thing if iandanforth expresses concern about diversity, and something else if he accuses the OP of bigotry. I don't see an accusation. To say it's a shame to leave her out of the title, doesn't imply the OP left her out for nefarious reasons. Ellison is much more famous.

Re: Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is excluding someone from being mentioned in the same sentence as LE a disservice?

Given the title includes her, I'd like to know what the thought was behind removing her name. I'd be very surprised if it was; 'Larry is bad, so lets not harm people by association'.

Probably along the lines of "Larry is relevant to this community and a controversial figure to boot, so his appointment should be discussed".

Re: Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given the title includes her, I'd like to know what the thought was behind removing her name. I'd be very surprised if it was; 'Larry is bad, so lets not harm people by association'.

Probably along the lines of "Larry is relevant to this community and a controversial figure to boot, so his appointment should be discussed".

Her appointment should also be discussed, given how much of Tesla's bad press has been HR related over the past year. She may prove to be the more important addition.

Re: Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably along the lines of "Larry is relevant to this community and a controversial figure to boot, so his appointment should be discussed".

Her appointment should also be discussed, given how much of Tesla's bad press has been HR related over the past year. She may prove to be the more important addition.

lol ya totally, bro

Re: Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors

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post #8

Can we please update the link title to not exclude the woman of color?

Independent of the color of the person, OP has actually wanted to highlight that Larry Ellison is on board. OP wanted to highlight the tragedy.

> OP has actually wanted to highlight that Larry Ellison is on board

yes, this is called "Editorializing the title" and is highly discouraged by HN rules.

Re: Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors

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post #17
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Independent of the color of the person, OP has actually wanted to highlight that Larry Ellison is on board. OP wanted to highlight the tragedy.

> OP has actually wanted to highlight that Larry Ellison is on board yes, this is called "Editorializing the title" and is highly discouraged by HN rules.

I am responding to the comment where OP of comment thought there was racial bias. You may be right about Editorializing though.
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