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by jcromartie 4658 days ago
I'm not sure I see that bias. Did he ever indicate that he thought certain people were unfit for a job because of their gender, religion, etc.?
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This one specifically disparaged female devs:

"Tech managers spend as much time worrying about how to hire talented female developers as they do worrying about how to hire a unicorn."

https://twitter.com/paxdickinson/status/202095372355633152

He made this public comment on a BI job posting thread [1]:

"@Liberal Insider: Haha, you'd feel pretty silly for writing that comment if you ever saw my twitter feed and read all the horrible things I say about Obama. :)"

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/hiring-mobile-apps-developer-...

I don't get it. "Liberal Insider" said that you need to be a "bleeding heart liberal" who would support Barack Obama to work at BI. Pax refuted this referring to his history of statements against Obama.

I doubt it very much that he was implying you needed to be liberal OR conservative to work at BI.

You can read it that way, sure. But why would anyone with hiring authority ever make a comment like that on a public forum about his own job posting?