I'm glad people are calling out the toxic behavior of one of the rather unpleasant men in tech, but I wish y'all had started doing that decades earlier, when the toxic and exclusionary attitudes that filtered down from those figures were affecting the ...
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I'm glad people are calling out the toxic behavior of one of the rather unpleasant men in tech, but I wish y'all had started doing that decades earlier, when the toxic and exclusionary attitudes that filtered down from those figures were affecting the experiences a much younger version of myself (and others) were having learning computer stuff for the first time
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Things in computing I stayed away from for the longest time because of exclusionary attitudes:
- security
- game dev, graphics programming
- Linux kernel dev
- almost anything where it was "dudes showing off how much better they are" -
@recursive I I don't believe it's that people weren't calling him out. I suspect rather it's that his defenders shouted at and harassed them until they no longer had the energy to keep doing it. (Why I think that: my mother expressed to me her distaste for the man in the tones of one who's been in and witnessed some flamewars, some 15-20 years ago, and I don't believe her experience was recent then.)
