I’d be curious to know what the proper context is for Kling saying that using gender neutral language in the documentation of a project he was maintaining is something he’s opposed to because it’s “ideologically motivated.”

White males are actively discriminated against in tech.

It’s an open secret of Silicon Valley.

One of the last meetings I attended before leaving Apple (in 2017) was management asking us to “keep the corporate diversity targets in mind” when interviewing potential new hires.

The phrasing was careful, but the implication was pretty clear.

I knew in my heart this wasn’t wholesome, but I was too scared to rock the boat at the time.

That’s Kling replying to @danheld, who “is ultimately responding to @shaunmmaguire’s tweet lying about being told he wouldn’t be promoted at Google for being white.”

What’s the proper context for that?

What’s the proper context for Kling calling someone getting dragged for boosting noted far-right conspiracy nut Bryan Lunduke “persecution” for “banal, mainstream positions”?

I mean, sure, being alt-right isn’t very alt nowadays so I guess it’s mainstream, I’ll grant you that.

Quotes and links from this blog post

Americans not understanding other countries exist, an exhibit:

why don’t you tell us how you really feel

But I used the word “neckbeard”, therefore my argument is invalid

I didn’t complain about downvotes, you just made that up for upvotes, and again: this is a random forum and not a professional setting, your fucking “gotcha aha you’re just as bad as us!” is pointless and doesn’t mean I was wrong about what I said.

All the neckbeard Linus stans telling me people need thicker skin just proved my point for me.

Turns out Linus stans are also assholes – who would have guessed?

Yes, good job, me shooting my mouth off at Linus stans is exactly the same as Linus publicly humiliating people in what is essentially a professional setting, and therefore me calling people neckbeards invalidates everything I said.

I swear it’s like nothing has changed about Linux users in 30 years.

Aren’t we glad I’m not the head of a globally significant OS project who publicly humiliates people?

Calling out incompetence and being a fucking dick are not the same thing, and the fact that people (you included) think that you can’t point out mistakes without being a cunt is the entire problem here

Sure, I never said otherwise, but the problem is usually that people are so blinded by his being a tech leader that they excuse his behavior. Seriously, imagine this was literally anybody else, they’d get booted from their position faster than you can say “motherfucker”

Ah yes, Linus Torvalds, the man who convinced generations of nerds that it’s okay to treat others like shit as long as you’re “right”.

He’s like the walking epitome of “you’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole.”

Edit: and the neckbeards who spring to his defense always screech about how everybody else needs to stop being so thin-skinned.

No, assholes need to stop treating people like shit. Don’t put this on the rest of us

No fucking shit it’s a quote, but you can’t tell me it isn’t likely they picked that specific way to quote him to make it look like scare quotes

Oh yeah true, I forgot he’s a right-wing twat too. No wonder NY Post had him in the headline, then

Love the scare quotes around “unpopular”. NY Post is a fucking conservative rag, why anybody reads that shit is beyond me

Wouldn’t expect much more from a TERF paper.

Ah shit, has The Guardian platformed TERFs?

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It’s almost like Apple doesn’t actually give a shit about the safety of customers, despite what they claimed when they made using 3rd party app stores a huge pain in the ass after the EU tried to force them to allow that (of course the conservatives currently in charge aren’t too interested in doing anything about this)

Want to have a nice cry about it?

me_irl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQCP-5g5bo