Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in China and Russia

Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by AsyncAwait on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:25AM (#21441364)

Indeed, thanks GitLab for being so open about your bigotry. I wonder what would happen if GitLab started excluding say Israeli nationals, because a large number of companies that sell 0-days for profit are based there, I suspect that accusations of antisemitism would pour in from all corners & rightfully so, but since demonizing China has been cool since the USSR's collapse & Russia rejoined the club it never really left in the eyes of Americans, it's all good.

Disgraceful. GitLab was once an inspiration to me in terms of its openness & culture, but the recent moves around tracking and now this, make it clear that GitLab has been around for too long to stay a hero.

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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by kortilla on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:03AM (#21441676)

> it never really left in the eyes of Americans

Nice bigotry in a post complaining about bigotry.

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Re:Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in... by AsyncAwait on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:42PM (#21445585)

Except when you look at Hollywood production, U.S TV news etc. that's exactly what you get. The Red Scare was a real thing, so was Russiagate. The anti-Chinese sentiment is very much real in the U.S. too, if the campaign rhetoric, current trade policies & the constant stream of accusations from newspapers of record are to be any indication.

Maybe I could have worded it better, but I am referring to American culture and the mindset that when you think 'anti-hero', it's going to be a Russian/Chinese most of the time.

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