This made me laugh harder than I thought it would. They're spinning it hard. The original article was great, but it had to be butchered by propaganda and politics. What a shame.Hero in a half shell said:
Ellen Pao Resigns as Reddit Interim CEO
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There's nothing necessarily wrong with David Streitfeld living in San Francisco, but I found it interesting because a lot of people who have been all over the gaming forums in the past 12 months are all from San Francisco, and they would frequently use the same language, bias and storytelling technique in their recent... gaming culture media encounters.Bat Vader said:
To spell it out: San Francisco is basically the hometown and main hangout of many of the indie devs and journalists implicated in the recent Gamergate controversy who all conform to an extremist progressive liberal viewpoint that all social systems are run by the patriarchy and all women and minorities are being systemically downtrodden by all white males who are all believed to be unfairly gaining off the system that favours them, and therefore should all be denigrated and deposed.
As an extension of this they hold a radical zeal for reforming the system through influencing geek culture to be more open to women and minorities (not a bad thing) but they want this to come at the expense of white males and generally anyone who differs in their political viewpoints (as they are almost all confirmed Marxists - Which interestingly tends to be the ultimate end of their beliefs that they are less likely to explain in their seminars, although you can occasionally see it in come through in Tweets - tear down the capitalist patriarchy and replace it with a matriarchal driven Marxist utopia where everyone is equal.)
Basically San Francisco is kind of the headquarters of America for this belief, and many of their events and conferences are held there.
The Amish have Pennsylvania
The KKK have Mississippi
The Bankers have Wall Street
And the extremist feminists have San Francisco.
I'm not saying anyone should or should not do anything about it, just that this is unlikely to solidify the tactics of harassment into the public consciousness when it has already been well solidified long ago.BreakfastMan said:
Wow. It's cringe-worthy how hard they are trying to make her seem like a virtuous martyr.Random Gamer said:
a slightly more enlightening read here
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/11/reddit-s-terrorists-have-won-ellen-pao-and-the-failure-to-rebrand-web-2-0.html
seems like Ellen Pao was slightly less to blame for the mess that is Reddit. if of course it's accurate. seems so.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/11/reddit-s-terrorists-have-won-ellen-pao-and-the-failure-to-rebrand-web-2-0.html
seems like Ellen Pao was slightly less to blame for the mess that is Reddit. if of course it's accurate. seems so.
Enlightening and Arthur Chu: Pick just one.Hoplon said:
"All The News That's Fit To Print"LostGryphon said:I...wow.FirstNameLastName said:
This is just blatant.I love this archiving thing. It's like witnessing birth-
The birth of propoganda, mind, but still, quite interesting just to see it in action.
Huh, so Pao really was bait. Quite brilliant, really; hire a controversial figure (even better, a controversial woman), fuck everything up, imply it was her fault, then suddenly fix whatever problem you had which made you need a temporary CEO.Bat Vader said:
It certainly seems to have. We'll find out in a few months, I guess.Dynast Brass said:It's cynical, and it might have worked, so maybe it isn't cynical after all.