Ha - they offered to hire her back and she declined. Gotta agree there. Who wants to work for a company that outsources its hire/fire decisions to a vote among random Twitter users?<p>The question now though is, are there any employers left that don't do that?
I remember when the news about Jussie Smollet broke, the usual SJWs on Twitter erupted in a tweet storm like they always do. (I follow a lot of great programmers who have a wide array of opinions and ideologies outside of their technical expertise) As what many have come to accept as the truth came out, no one ever retracted.<p>These are smart people, some of which have very high feedback here on HN. It seems to me however that their highly tuned critical thinking skills take a backseat to a desire to be mad about the state of the world, with little regard or accountability to what their words can mean.
On the topic of internet mobs, the term "lapidation" was recently suggested as a word to describe "what happens when a group of people, outraged by some real or imagined transgression, responds in a way that is disproportionate to the occasion, thus ruining the transgressor’s day, month, year or life."<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-23/harvard-professor-falls-victim-to-group-outrage" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-23/harvar...</a>
Journos did the same to Nick Sandmann and IIRC CNN's people were in on it. It's not just random tweeters, the priests of facts and truth are no better.
Another "feels" article about a problem that can only improve with more rationality. Now for the other direction. It's good to get the word out there, but if discussion culture stays like this it's just a question of time before the same happens to the next victim
Most videos like this one are obviously attempts at demonizing innocent people and most people who see these can easily spot such a video. It all really depends on what the viewer chooses to believe. Sadly, there are millions of people who will either accept the bogus claim of racism without thinking or even watching the video or they'll simply pretend that it's the real deal and slam the accused just to be mean.
Love the stock photo, a punk photoshop of a classic TiBook keyboard.<p>Sorry for the detour (wow, hold off the downvotes for a second and appreciate this design, it’s such a pinnacle of the ‘90s and the photo edit captures it so well. Odd that it ended up on this article... a random picture of birds ruffling feathers would have been more apt.)