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Re:Official comment from HN on dead threads by ramblerman on Thursday March 21, 2013 @03:01PM (#5417891)
Microsoft Architect Steve Marx tweeted on the issue with:

This is truly getting out of hand … (I mean the lynching, not the jokes.)

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To which she bravely responded:

and I'm upset I had to listen to the stuff behind me yesterday. I'm Black. Has anyone in your family been ever encountered lynching?"

And

@smarx Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

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Re:Official comment from HN on dead threads by andypants on Thursday March 21, 2013 @03:42PM (#5418311)
And it reads like Steve Marx was supporting her too. I can't believe her response! I imagine she misunderstood, from reading so many insults on twitter.
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Re:Official comment from HN on dead threads by SallySinep on Thursday March 21, 2013 @03:42PM (#5418309)
That's not bravery. It's just cheap anti-intellectualism.
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Re:Official comment from HN on dead threads by RyanZAG on Thursday March 21, 2013 @04:10PM (#5418528)
He cough cough was being sarcastic about the bravery bit.
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Re:Official comment from HN on dead threads by SallySinep on Thursday March 21, 2013 @04:11PM (#5418544)
Thanks. It's been hard to tell sometimes, in this thread.
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