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by basicneo 2025 days ago
Experiencing marginalisation is frustrating, and frustrated people sometimes have outbursts.

I don't think we can infer much from a few highly publicised events.

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Was she marginalized? She ran a team at Google. How many of us can claim that?
How was she marginalized? Marginalized means keeping someone in a powerless or unimportant position in society, which she was not as she had one of the most important roles in AI and was a manager.
Even if you are marginalized, threatening to resign with ultimatums will never work in your favor unless you have an entire union behind you.
I wasn't commenting on expected outcomes of their behaviour, just that I think it's a bit of a jump say to they are "rude and abrasive " in general.