Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

nymag.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

61–70 of 130 posts

Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

#61

Post by fedvasu »

fingerprinter wrote: post #35
fedvasu wrote: post #19

It is height of hypocrysy! That dude is not entitled to his opinion. :facepalm: I hate this entire feminism in tech agenda. Yeah, He is a douche, so what? Everyone is a little bit on varying topics.Because of things like that our industry is stranded in politics. Pax: Salute! business insider: you are anti-democratic and pro-feminist douche bags. fuck feminist agenda.

Dude...wtf? He can surely have an opinion, even a minority, rather ridiculous opinion. What he can't do is be a complete asshat and think there are no ramifications. It shows a complete lack of empathy as well as judgement. Guy is a CTO of a rather public company and feels the need to rant off like this on twitter? 1. extremely poor judgement and 2. shows he "doesn't get it". However you look at it, this guy shouldn'…

I get it, but seriously this thing got escalated because of feminism BS.Yes he is nuts, but why on earth send a wrong message? I am not saying he getting demoted/fired is illegal, all I am saying is so much hatred for him on HN is hypocritical.

Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

#62

Post by fingerprinter »

hosay123 wrote: post #26

For all the value of political correctness in the workplace, someone just lost their job for their honest views, because some found them too ugly to bear. If you're still thirsty for more ugly truth, check out a Twitter search for @paxdickinson just now. Apparently to many, honesty is objectively worse than endless vengeful hate. I don't support anything this guy said, but clearly some of it was sarcasm, and as for t…

I don't get this. He has a pretty, IMO, hateful view of the world. I don't care if he is honest if he is also a sociopath and a fucking asshole.

Use this filter. If you were running a company and came across this type of personality, would you want them in your company?

What if they were anti-gay? Anti-white? Anti-immigrant? And not just held those views but basically YELLED them in PUBLIC while using your company name? Yeah, common sense says you need to get rid of them.

No, BI is better off without him. I would say the tech industry as an entity would be much better off the less of these people we have in it. It has nothing to do with honesty, but empathy, intelligence, and common sense.

Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

#63

Post by untog »

fedvasu wrote: post #53
untog wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've already posted this once, but can you explain how this tweet is related to the 'feminist agenda': "In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of niggers. It's his own fault for dressing like a whore though." https://twitter.com/paxdickinson/statuses/18546571881

haha, I think I defended a nutjob. I get it but seriously, he got aked to step-down for anti-feminist post not for this seemingly hurtful comment toward a community. Good Job BusinessInsider! (for choosing sides)

he got aked to step-down for anti-feminist post

Citation needed. He was asked to step down for being an abhorrent human being who posts abuse about a number of groups of people (including women) and leaves his company vulnerable to lawsuits.

Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

#64

Post by anu_gupta »

Not sure why people are trying to defend this immature little man-child. No one is saying that he's not allowed to tweet what he wants to. Then again, it's perfectly legal to fire him for almost any reason, and that's what happened.

TL;DR; if you're an asshole, then sometimes unpleasant things happen to you.

Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

#65

Post by newnewnew »

hosay123 wrote: post #26

For all the value of political correctness in the workplace, someone just lost their job for their honest views, because some found them too ugly to bear. If you're still thirsty for more ugly truth, check out a Twitter search for @paxdickinson just now. Apparently to many, honesty is objectively worse than endless vengeful hate. I don't support anything this guy said, but clearly some of it was sarcasm, and as for t…

The politically correct and their defenders engage in Crocodile Humor, the laughter of the powerful at the powerless[1]. It is an ugly thing to behold.

"Many UR readers have had the priceless educational privilege of growing up behind the Iron Curtain. These readers will identify Professor DeLong’s tone at once: it is the tone of the Soviet humor magazine Krokodil[2]. I will take the liberty of Anglicizing, and call it “crocodile humor.” Extremely educated readers may also be familiar with the Nazi variant, as found in Der Stürmer and the like. The material is different, of course, but the tone is unmistakable. We’ll hear a good deal more of it in the next four years.

Crocodile humor is the laughter of the powerful at the powerless. It is not intended to be funny. It is intended to intimidate. Those who laugh, as many do, are those who love to submerge themselves in a mob, feel its strength as theirs, chant and shake their spears as one."

[1] http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/11/preside...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krokodil

Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

#66

Post by pessimizer »

fedvasu wrote: post #43

why people who believe in meritocracy are termed anti-feminists? No I don't even remotely know Pax, heck this is the first time I heard of him. Guys seriously do you want to sink to the level of quota and reservation based on gender now? It is exteremely difficult to get talented and motivated people in tech, let us not put gender bias or elitism on people who care about their field (may be just their company/org). I…

I guarantee that a bro with this kind of lack of self-control and awareness who has made it to CTO has been the beneficiary of a lot of informal affirmative action and quotas.

"At least three cool dudes that I can drink at lunch with? Check."

Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

#67

Post by fedvasu »

spindritf wrote: post #57
fedvasu wrote: post #43

why people who believe in meritocracy are termed anti-feminists? No I don't even remotely know Pax, heck this is the first time I heard of him. Guys seriously do you want to sink to the level of quota and reservation based on gender now? It is exteremely difficult to get talented and motivated people in tech, let us not put gender bias or elitism on people who care about their field (may be just their company/org). I…

> why people who believe in meritocracy are termed anti-feminists? Because merit is an individual quality, and feminism is a collective ideology? Just a guess.

So, I must live and die by this ideaology because my company buys into it for raising share prices, even when I am not at my workplace? I don't think so!

Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

#68

Post by anu_gupta »

fedvasu wrote: post #61
fingerprinter wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dude...wtf? He can surely have an opinion, even a minority, rather ridiculous opinion. What he can't do is be a complete asshat and think there are no ramifications. It shows a complete lack of empathy as well as judgement. Guy is a CTO of a rather public company and feels the need to rant off like this on twitter? 1. extremely poor judgement and 2. shows he "doesn't get it". However you look at it, this guy shouldn'…

I get it, but seriously this thing got escalated because of feminism BS.Yes he is nuts, but why on earth send a wrong message? I am not saying he getting demoted/fired is illegal, all I am saying is so much hatred for him on HN is hypocritical.

No, you don't get it. Quit saying you do.

Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

#69

Post by venomsnake »

ceejayoz wrote: post #29
Karunamon wrote: post #15

Was this just the last straw? I ask because the tweet pictured in the article seems fairly reasonable. Calling out a coworker for insulting you on twitter doesn't seem particularly objectionable.

There's a lot more than that tweet. http://valleywag.gawker.com/business-insider-ctos-is-your-ne... Example: "In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of niggers. It's his own fault for dressing like a whore though."

Well this exact quote I read it as a commentary on how wrong is the "she was asking for it" rape explanation.

Re: Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm

#70

Post by minimaxir »

cstejerean wrote: post #49
untog wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You wouldn't have heard about it if you only read Hacker News - users systematically flagged any reference to it off the site. The 21st Century equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and saying "la la la la" Worth pointing out that the exact same thing has now happened to this thread.

After seeing all of the complaints about that event on Twitter, I was definitely surprised to find no mention of it on HN. I wonder why this wasn't worthy of discussion here.

There was discussion, but it was flagged off the front page immediately.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/techs-grossest-website-hits-a-ne...

Post reply on HN