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Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
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#182Re: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
> that journalist's South Korean birthplace could hardly be any consideration into her journalism Self-identity can absolutely be relevant, especially if there is a history of anti-white racism.
Except that in 14 hours and 10 comments, there’s been no evidence provided she even claims a South Korean identity.
What does that mean? I think the point is she is racially Korean, aka Asian not white/Caucasian, given context to her being accused of being "anti-white".
edit: also see "It's not far off from Korean culture" https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/981575986322989056 which apparently she is qualified to judge.
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#184People are assuming this is about gender, but it may well be about COVID. Wu refused to go along with China's huge policy shift, from trying hard to contain COVID to giving up. She still takes precautions and has been plugging for UV sterilizers and HEPA filters. The government of China has been hassling people who still want to control COVID spread. It's like "return to office" enforced by the cops. She had a previo…
> Wu refused to go along with China's huge policy shift She was also heavily attacked by people in the West as she also refused to go along with the Wests 'masks don't matter policy' She created Google Docs early on with evidence masks would work contravening the Western governments and the 'trust the science' crowd. Lets not pretend it's just China here, it maybe offtopic to this incident, but at the time you could…
The “trust the science” crowd were the ones advocating for masks, no?
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
> she doesn't seem to understand prioritization/feature cutting by businesses I think this is an incredibly patronizing perspective. She works/worked as a software developer for many years. Instructables used to support Chinese characters, and someone made a decision that broke that support and it got pushed to prod. (Did someone change the text encoding of UGC and migrate the DB without thinking about other language…
> Instructables used to support Chinese characters, and someone made a decision that broke that support and it got pushed to prod. (Did someone change the text encoding of UGC and migrate the DB without thinking about other languages?!) At best it was the result of incompetence and apathy. Or alternatively, something somewhere was not built to design UTF-8 (since, you know, its an actual hard problem) and it was a sh…
> To ice the cake she even talks about "tech bros" (the implied tone being white men).
It is interesting how you are projecting meaning onto her use of "tech bro"? I'm guessing you're a white tech bro?
It's interesting how men in tech get extremely offended by her lack of deference to them. I think it probably is a result of her appearance as a nonwhite "bimbo-aesthetic" engineer - (especially white) tech bros feel like she should address them as a superior and their egos feel threatened when she does not.
You're calling her a crybully. I'd argue this comment I'm replying to is a much clearer example of "crybully" behavior. I hope you can reflect on why you reacted in this way.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
Government policy ideals from a small handful of European men in the 18th century may be noble but I value more the documented modern observable effects of policies than their inspiration and goals. The 20th century alone is not short on case studies. Again and again the empirical outcome of tolerating bad faith weaponized speech is the sharp reduction in the diversity of ideas and perspectives actually present in sp…
> Government policy ideals from a small handful of European men in the 18th century may be noble but I value more the documented modern observable effects of policies than their inspiration and goals. The proof is in the pudding, the American system of political tolerance has an excellent track record and leads to better outcomes in the long run.
Given recent events in the US, this is clearly not the reality.
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#187I'm appalled that I'm only finding out about this now.
Am I being paranoid in thinking that Musk’s exposure in China & disdain for the LGBTQ community could lead him to lower the reach of tweets related to this issue?
I can't say, but I have been following Wu for a year or more and we interacted maybe once a month. Looking back through the timeline the last tweet of hers that I remember seeing was from late June. I rarely follow new people but don't easily notice when someone falls out of my feed, and Wu would tweet only once or twice a week normally.
Re: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
#188There is a large LGBT framing in the article on Naomi Wu's situation. I would rather hear from Naomi, it's entirely possible this is about her stance on COVID, Uyghur Muslims or something else entirely.
> Despite her primarily Western audience, Wu has consistently encountered unfavorable treatment from Western media, often tinged with misogyny. Notably, a VICE Magazine reporter appeared to consider outing Wu without her consent, potentially jeopardizing her safety by revealing personal information.
It was VICE who outed her sexuality, a publication by Sarah Emerson [0]. VICE itself has a massive left-wing bias [1], and doesn't quite fit the 'misogyny' narrative. It's entirely possible they could have got her arrested or killed (she was already living somewhat dangerously) [2].
I hope this article took the time and asked for permission to publish - it's entirely possible that this kind of attention itself could cause significant trouble.
[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kjqdb/naomi-wu-sexy-cyborg-...
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#189I used to like Naomi, but like a lot of intelligent people online recently, she has caught the politics mind virus and began using her platform to spread even more hate and division.
These days I find myself desperately craving an online community that just focuses on building cool projects and learning about new stuff, rather than pointless political debates that have extremely little relevance in anyone’s lives.
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#190I always take this individual with a grain of salt. I originally supported her as that she was an enthusiast and talking about making things. However, she has a strong tendency to dramatize things and it's very easy to get caught up in her net. Context: She started raking a maker site (I think it was instructables) about quietly dropping Chinese character support. She went a huge tirade that it was racism and it was…
Nearly everything she produced tried to focus it on getting attention
Like very other influencer/e-celeb. If you don't have capital and you want to make lots of money then fame is the most expedient route.