Re:Ada Initiative No Longer Partnering with GitHub
by comrh on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @02:31PM
(#7635940)
Github as a corporate entity and Github as a cultural place to work are different things. You can still have misogyny in your organization while the company promotes the opposite.
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Re:Ada Initiative No Longer Partnering with GitHub
by rjknight on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @02:37PM
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Indeed. To borrow a phrase from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons"[1]. If you do have a misogynistic workplace then sponsoring anti-misogynist causes may be a way of covering that up (in environmental circles this is known as "greenwashing").
[1] http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/31953/the-louder-...