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tayo42 • yesterday at 9:46 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

It feels like tech overcorrected from allowing assholes to be assholes. To now having words and tone policed constantly.


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abustamam • yesterday at 9:52 PM

Reminds me of when Douglas Crockford got removed as a keynote speaker because he made other people uncomfortable because he used the term "gonads" and also did a muscle flex when talking about WeakMap vs StrongMap.

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/50u77r/douglas_...

TheOtherHobbes • today at 12:19 AM

The assholes are still there. Complaining about language does nothing to get rid of the assholes. They're completely orthogonal activities.

If you wanted to get rid of the assholes - incredibly difficult, because they take many forms - you'd have to reinvent corporate culture in the US to make it less extractive and performative and more substance-based and cooperative.

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ropable • today at 1:37 AM

One person's over-correction is another person's "finally". Norms change; it's as reasonable for that to happen as it is to complain about it.

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