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Thoughts on yet another case of a racist showing his ass on Twitter (repeatedly) while wanting to get a tech job:
Stay. The Fuck. Out.
Stay. The Fuck. Out.
Tech has enough problems with racism, sexism, every phobia and -ism. Reform is coming only very slowly. Welcoming an overt racist would not help any workplace.
Exposing this dude was a favor to any potential future employer: he& #39;s a liability. Given what he was willing to say publicly on Twitter, how long would it be before a lawsuit got filed or colleagues quit over a hostile workplace environment?
Remember the uber-sexist Google ding-dong that caused them so many problems? I& #39;ll bet his attitude was apparent to some long before he joined. Maybe Google would like to have been similarly warned before they got into that mess.
Should this dude& #39;s life have been "ruined"? The alternative was to allow him the opportunity to ruin the lives of others. Those HR lawsuits usually don& #39;t end well for the person who complains (which is why complaints don& #39;t get made nearly as often as actual incidents occur).
Should he choose to take it, he has the opportunity to learn, grow, make a credible apology, and become a worthy human being. Whether he even tries will tell us more about who he "really is." In the absence of such effort, I would not want him in my workplace. Nor should anyone.
