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by slantedview 4435 days ago
It's terrible that shame is used as a mechanism to prevent victims from bringing justice (in whatever form) to their victimizer. The power you have is in the truth, all of it - names included. I'm glad you spoke up.
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As you can see from the comments on the current HN thread about Github's second statement (which I think is a significant improvement on their first one), making specific statements typically only makes this worse for women in tech: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7662190
I don't know that the two situations make for a good comparison.