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by nodesocket 3375 days ago
I'm sorry, but how is this different than discriminating based on sexual preference (being gay)? This sort of stuff has no place in a business setting. Unfortunately this is the world we live in; everybody is outraged over something and claiming to be open and inclusive, as long as it prescribes to their own beliefs.

Where are the TechCrunch social justice warriors (Megan Rose Dickey) about this?
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wskinner 3375 days ago
It's no different, except that people who claim to be open and tolerant never really are. They are just tolerant of one or the other outgroup to the degree that that outgroup is socially acceptable.

I think the reason this happens is that people have no principles reason for tolerating other people. It just "feels right" for certain groups and wrong for others. So who gets tolerated trails changes in social acceptability.

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devwastaken 3375 days ago
>I'm sorry, but how is this different than discriminating based on sexual preference (being gay)?

Thats assuming he was ejected due to preferences. Buytaert said that Larry ommitted information from his reply, and that there was more going on. So, we don't even know what the exact cause was other than supposedly Larry actually believes that women are subservient to men. Not just sexually, but in life in general.

I can perfectly see how that makes a person who has to interact with a diverse community problematic. But I also understand that you should be judged upon what you have done, not about what you think, and none of the posts or responses qualify that in any way shape or form. So, either something bigger happened that the org is hiding for some protective purpose (either for Larry, or themselves, or both), or as Larry said, he is the result of a smear campaign.

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mamurphy 3375 days ago
>how is this different that discriminating based on sexual preference (being gay)?

Garfield made that exact analogy in his reply (https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing).

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TuringTest 3375 days ago
At least one TechCrunch writer is on Garfield's side:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/26/sex-and-gor-and-open-sourc...

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