[ebola1717]

I think people have done a very good job of saying that. They just get drowned out by outrage from the right, and overly clipped soundbites from both sides.

My twitter feed has tons of very thoughtful pieces responding to the memo. They just never breach the front page of Hacker News.

[mwytock]

Maybe. I don't think Sundar Pichai or Danielle Brown did though, they just said "this is not OK" and "code of conduct". Perhaps they felt they didn't need to engage with this kind of argument, but that mentality is exactly what has a lot of people upset.