[m3mpp]

From virtue signaling to virtue resigning. I wonder what's the next step, virtue self-immolation?

Let's keep giving berth to that kind of sensitivity in the work place and very soon, all the people will be exactly the same, bland, smooth, completely passive people.

The creative, the geniuses of this world are always full of spikes, full of defects, against the norm. Well, I guess we will just have to do without them from now on...

[codyb]

Isn't quitting your job to stand up for something just about one of the most individualistic things you could do?

[m3mpp]

There's standing up for your value and there's drama. This is drama. This is "look at how good I am". You stand up for your values by going to the guy and tell him "you're an asshole for joking about that, and since I don't work for assholes, I'm gone". That is standing up for your values. Don't you think?

[andrewprock]

He did stand up for his values. He went to the guy, and said that jokes like that are a problem. When the problem wasn't resolved he quit.

Are you saying that because he wasn't an asshole back, that it was drama?

[m3mpp]

The drama is the blog post, the length, the minute details of everything, like if it was so big, so important. It's just a guy who said a stupid joke. If you feel so strongly, confront him for real, not with a bland "it's a problem" and then write a 5000 words blog post about it. Go tell him he's a piece of shit, something the guy could actually use to adjust his behavior. My 2 cents.

[andrewprock]

Telling someone that something is a problem is confronting them for real.

Going to tell someone that they are a "piece of shit" is not acceptable behavior.

[Apocryphon]

No one's like, actually forcing you to read an article on his personal blog, man

[commandlinefan]

FWIW, I understand what you’re getting at and think you have a point. I don’t think you’re getting much traction here though.

[jmull]

> ...and very soon, all the people will be exactly the same, bland, smooth, completely passive people.

As opposed to the brave people who dynamically and forcefully sit quietly by as asshats bake offensive rape jokes into company culture?

How can someone who is against being too sensitive argue against criticism, anyway? You should be like, “Fuck Yeah, bring it on!” Instead we get this sniveling whining.

[m3mpp]

Not sure where you're going with that, but anyway. If someone is an ass, confront him, don't quit and go whining on your blog trying to look good, is all I'm saying.

[Apocryphon]

By publicly resigning and publishing why, he's literally confronting them in the most effective way possible.

[humantiy]

>By publicly resigning and publishing why, he's literally confronting them in the most effective way possible.

It wasn't public though. From the post: "I chose to leave quietly in February 2014, and not publicly state why I left."

He didn't say anything until now. If he was confronting it don't you think he should have done so in 2014 instead of almost 5 years later and after Cecilia D’Anastasio’s Kotaku article? This seems more like a means to distance himself from ever working at Riot.

[subjectsigma]

The article states explicitly that he did not publicly resign and only released his story years after. He even tried to go back.

[panzagl]

Not really effective- it's the most confrontational way, and the most divisive, but I doubt it will really change anyone's minds. Instead you'll get zealots from both sides of the issue yelling down any reasonably conciliatory approach as they use it to further their own agendas.

[rectang]

He tried everything he could with the conciliatory approach, but it didn't work. It's time for confrontation.

[Apocryphon]

Public scrutiny will force Riot to address these allegations, at least.

[jmull]

> Not sure where you're going with that

I think I was pretty clear. Don't be so afraid of confrontation that you won't actually parse a difficult response. If there's something you don't understand let me know and I'll explain it to you.

If we believe the OP's story (I don't see why we shouldn't) then the asses were confronted, face-to-face, at the time, were they not?