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What Women Don’t Want
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#12Can someone explain to me how everybody knows that Pax Dickinson hates women?
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#13This article doesn't belong on hacker news. It literally starts out by calling somebody a dick in the first sentence. If there was an article starting out by calling some woman a cunt it wouldn't belong here, and this doesn't belong here either.
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#14“It's not an accident that, in those same communities, the thriving of women and minorities is fewer and further between.”
I don't know about women, but since I'm a minority, let me put this directly:
I'd rather have someone crack a mildly racist joke at my expense and laugh with them about it (or possibly quarrel, if they are being really crude) rather than have everyone be the uptight sort of humourless corporatese-speaking drones that these people seem to be trying the fill the tech industry with.
Also, I might be missing something, but “Tech managers spend as much time worrying about how to hire talented female developers as they do worrying about how to hire a unicorn.” is a reflection on the current state of the industry. What is it being spun as Pax's own opinion here?
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#15Tech managers spend as much time worrying about how to hire talented female developers as they do worrying about how to hire a unicorn.
I would think more time would be put into worrying about how to hire talented developers regardless of gender. I don't see why any break down between genders is required there.
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#16Ok, I haven't followed this whole thing closely, so if I'm missing some crucial fact please tell me. What exactly is the problem with Pax Dickinson? He has expressed some political and social opinions that many disagree with. He used coarse language in doing so. And he got fired because his political opinions were incorrect. Business Insider of course has the right to fire people for having the wrong politics. But I'…
When a firing occurs, it happens because the employer does not want to, or can't, employ the employee any longer.
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#17Wow, that guy is something else. It's hard to believe that he was in such position. Shame.
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#18“It's not an accident that, in those same communities, the thriving of women and minorities is fewer and further between.” I don't know about women, but since I'm a minority, let me put this directly: I'd rather have someone crack a mildly racist joke at my expense and laugh with them about it (or possibly quarrel, if they are being really crude) rather than have everyone be the uptight sort of humourless corporatese…
There is a lot of room in-between.
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#19Ok, I haven't followed this whole thing closely, so if I'm missing some crucial fact please tell me. What exactly is the problem with Pax Dickinson? He has expressed some political and social opinions that many disagree with. He used coarse language in doing so. And he got fired because his political opinions were incorrect. Business Insider of course has the right to fire people for having the wrong politics. But I'…
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#20Ok, I haven't followed this whole thing closely, so if I'm missing some crucial fact please tell me. What exactly is the problem with Pax Dickinson? He has expressed some political and social opinions that many disagree with. He used coarse language in doing so. And he got fired because his political opinions were incorrect. Business Insider of course has the right to fire people for having the wrong politics. But I'…
He got fired because, as an executive manager, he was in a position to make hiring and firing decisions based on those opinions, which is illegal (and thus a liability to his employer) in addition to being immoral.
Based on your interpretation, nobody can be in a position to hire or fire, because everybody has opinions. Where do you think he indicated that he would discriminate in hiring people based on their race, sex, religion, etc.?