But they are still turning violence against women into page views.
Are you talking about rap music or the Isla Vista massacre?
A Statement About Mahbod’s Annotations on Elliot Rodger’s Manifesto
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#22I wish they had they shown the annotations that caused the firing. The Valleywag link elsewhere has one screenshot, but other than being in poor taste I'm not sure why this rates a firing/step down.
It's about context: the annotations were glorifying a manifesto that was the prelude to mass murder.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's literally what the OP says, from a primary source.
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>One implies consent on Mahbod's part (he acknowledges that he did wrong) while the other means he had to be forcibly ejected from RapGenius.
That's a false dichotomy. He did acknowledge that he did wrong (although OP's link does not state it — he announced it elsewhere beforehand). That doesn't mean he feels that the proper course of action was his no longer being part of the company.
The big difference is whether he decided he should resign, or whether he was either forced or convinced to resigned.
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#25But they are still turning violence against women into page views.
don't forget a majority of the victims were men. 3 stabbed in their apartment and 1 shot. :(
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#27Apparently this guy had a brain tumor and this wasn't the first time he's publicly embarrassed the company. He tweeted from the RapGenius account "WARREN BUFFETT CAN SUCK MY DICK". http://www.fastcompany.com/3021564/most-creative-people/how-... http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/02/22/rap_genius_wa...
The brain tumor was removed...and the public behavior was unchanged.
http://valleywag.gawker.com/rap-genius-frontman-blames-brain...
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#29If it was just the annotations I'd be surprised, but this is just another incident by Mahbod that has caused RapGenius bad press. It was the last straw.
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#30Context: http://gawker.com/rap-genius-co-founders-creepy-comments-on-... Mahbod compliments several of Rodger's sentences as "artful" and/or "beautifully written". That is okay, if ill-timed. One can make a stylistic statement about Mein Kampf without endorsing its message. He also, however, speculates that Rodger's "sister is smokin' hot." That is violently inappropriate, particularly given the misogynistic nature o…
stepping away from the context for a moment, the writing is also fucking terrible and overwrought. it reads like a cross between ignatius reilly and sephiroth