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Re:Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002) by detokaal on Thursday April 10, 2014 @01:11PM (#7567969)
This is a cover up to hide the real motivation: she is a woman and black, and none of you want her involved in a tech company. Disguise this all you want as opposition to the war or Bush or whatever. It is really opposition to her gender and race. This is how you do in silicon valley where blacks and women are considered token employees hire to look good. So make up stuff about her and move her out. Now you have your high-tech lynching hiding behind phony moral outrage.
Re:Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002) by scelerat on Thursday April 10, 2014 @01:19PM (#7568037)
Got any evidence for this claim? That people are really opposed to her because ~"she's black and a woman" and not because she helped start a war that killed thousands, predicated on lies and misinformation?
Re:Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002) by jdeisenberg on Thursday April 10, 2014 @01:38PM (#7568210)
Had Dropbox put former Vice President Dick Cheney (male, white) on the board, I suspect the firestorm of controversy would be far, far greater. As for "make up stuff about her," her comments regarding the Iraq war are on the record and are not fabricated.
Re:Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002) by samstave on Thursday April 10, 2014 @01:48PM (#7568294)
This is the lamest, most ignorant comment I have ever read on HN.
Re:Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002) by dec0dedab0de on Thursday April 10, 2014 @01:46PM (#7568284)
I would have expected the same outrage if it were Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld