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Re:Dan Povey, Developer of Kaldi, Fired from JHU by zimpenfish on Friday August 09, 2019 @05:52PM (#20658504)
> I'm aware that it's a huge violation of social norms for me to say publicly that I think whites, or males, are being discriminated against.

Probably because it's blitheringly stupid to assert something that is demonstrably not true and also staggeringly insulting to people who are actually discriminated against.

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Re:Dan Povey, Developer of Kaldi, Fired from JHU by ppwwyyxx on Sunday August 11, 2019 @09:30PM (#20671732)
> So essentially I am being fired for what might have happened, while the students are getting off scot free for things that actually did happen.

It was demonstrated in this exact incident.

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Re:Dan Povey, Developer of Kaldi, Fired from JHU by shawnz on Sunday August 18, 2019 @03:43AM (#20728808)
An employee and customer get in a fight. The employee is fired but the customer is not banned. What's surprising about that?
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