What I Didn't Say

Re:What I Didn't Say by calibraxis on Monday December 30, 2013 @05:06PM (#6987349)

So far seems he hasn't; he's explained why, and all the more power to him.

BTW, I'm disappointed that only "witch hunt" (terrorism against women) is used in this particular thread so far. Where's "lynch mob" and "McCarthyism", to round out the irony trifecta? (Hilariously sick when men liken themselves to women, whites to blacks, and capitalists to communists.)

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Re:What I Didn't Say by aaronem on Monday December 30, 2013 @05:41PM (#6987568)

I've found @jacobian's statement on the matter [1] eminently reasonable and even-handed.

As for the trifecta, I can't help you out on "lynch mob", I'm afraid, but how about this for McCarthyism?

"The [tech industry] is infested with [sexists]. I have here in my hand [2] a list of [102] -- a list of [user]names that were made known to the [Github administrators] as being members of the [sexist majority] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the [tech industry]." [3]

[1] https://twitter.com/jacobian/status/417776560603549696

[2] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a3j7b1R...

(This link points to Google's cache of @ashedryden's tweet, because the tweet as originally hosted on Twitter has been deleted since I saw it last. I hope you'll agree that Google's cache is an acceptably authoritative source for what used to be hosted at that Twitter URL. The replies are more interesting than the original tweet, anyway.)

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy#Wheeling_speech

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Re:What I Didn't Say by klipt on Monday December 30, 2013 @06:55PM (#6987964)

> Hilariously sick when men liken themselves to women

Believing men and women are equal is "sick" now? What a strange notion.

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Re:What I Didn't Say by iamjustin on Monday December 30, 2013 @05:31PM (#6987500)

Both men and women were killed during the Salem Witch Trials. A "witch hunt" isn't terrorism against women.

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Re:What I Didn't Say by fhars on Monday December 30, 2013 @06:36PM (#6987864)

75% to 80% of the killed victims were women, though, so it was mostly terrorism against women, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Execution_statistics

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Re:What I Didn't Say by aaronem on Monday December 30, 2013 @06:20PM (#6987779)

I seem to remember hearing that the final score in Salem being nineteen women and one man. Given this data, trivial statistical analysis tells us that the use of "witch hunt" in this context is 95% sexist, a value well within the margin of error.

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Re:What I Didn't Say by klipt on Monday December 30, 2013 @06:51PM (#6987943)

Only if you ignore all witch hunts outside Salem. That would be incredibly US-centric.

Bertrand Guilladot and Louis Debaraz come to mind.

Anyhow, that completely misses the point - that witch trials were based on a presumption of guilt against which no defense could be made. Much like the way certain media sites attack people.

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Re:What I Didn't Say by aaronem on Monday December 30, 2013 @07:13PM (#6988039)

Literature review and meta-analysis seemed out of scope, considering the comment to which I replied. (And I seem to've fallen into the HN trap of being too straight-faced about a smart-assed comment.)

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Re:What I Didn't Say by iamjustin on Monday December 30, 2013 @06:50PM (#6987937)

21 were executed, 6 male. Regardless, in common use, when someone uses the term 'witch hunt', it's gender-neutral.

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Re:What I Didn't Say by aaronem on Monday December 30, 2013 @07:15PM (#6988049)

Citizen, surely you need no reminding that so-called "gender neutrality" is merely a sexist excuse for the ongoing structural oppression of women and gender-fluid individuals.

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