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A comment on Google 'mic drop' Gmail joke for April Fools' day backfires. Parent comment

Re:Google 'mic drop' Gmail joke for April Fools' day backfires by js8 on Friday April 01, 2016 @12:30PM (#11406129)
> Have some fucking empathy.

Shouldn't you also ask for empathy in people who are upset by it? They seem to have the least empathy of everybody, if they are going to fire somebody over animated GIF.

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Re:Google 'mic drop' Gmail joke for April Fools' day backfires by scrollaway on Friday April 01, 2016 @01:08PM (#11406510)
Who says I'm not?

I haven't seen any of those people here on HN. Not today, at least. So I can't actually tell them. Show me someone and I'll be glad to have a chat...

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Re:Google 'mic drop' Gmail joke for April Fools' day backfires by js8 on Friday April 01, 2016 @01:23PM (#11406653)
I am merely pointing out that it's a little unfair, or perhaps absurd, if a person who points out a lack of empathy in other people (people who get upset at those GIFs to the point of hurting someone) gets blamed - by you - for a lack of empathy with their victims.

Unfortunately, people like that probably won't come to HN and leave comment - cool, I just fired someone over it! But they absolutely should get the blame.

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