Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost

Re:Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost by ericb on Thursday March 21, 2013 @07:48PM (#5420229)

This goes beyond Tu quoque. She claims to have been offended, enough to publicly name and shame these people over their private conversation, but she has publicly made jokes that were far raunchier days before. It isn't about hypocrisy in this case, it is about whether she was really offended.

https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425

I have trouble seeing her shaming behavior as anything more than self-serving drama.

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Re:Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost by georgeorwell on Thursday March 21, 2013 @08:09PM (#5420383)

I agree that it looks like she was exaggerating her offense. Hypocritical people often lie to manipulate situations to their advantage, or rather they choose truths to suit them according to the situation. So I guess what I am saying is that there are two questions here, are her hypocritical actions deplorable (yes), and was it sexism (no), but that the answers to the questions don't have any bearing on each other, which is why it's tu quoque to connect them. Anyway, in the end, yes, painful drama.

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Re:Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost by Eliezer on Friday March 22, 2013 @08:06AM (#5422420)

Hypocrisy usually isn't conscious. Why would it be?

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Re:Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost by georgeorwell on Saturday March 23, 2013 @03:23AM (#5427544)

Guilty pleasure?

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