* Social media is a powerful tool.
One reason the Left is winning is the Right doesn’t fight out of fear.
On Facebook all my lefty friends and family use their real names as they spew SJW crap and call everybody racist, sexist, homophobic scum. They don’t seem the slightest bit worried about their jobs being threatened.
My righty friends and family mostly keep quiet on Facebook. Terrified of saying the wrong thing.
But abandoning the battlefield guarantees victory for the other side. 90% of success is showing up. The Left shows up in the daily Facebook/Twitter wars.
* He knew that the information people would concentrate on is the fact that the has three children to support. The apology was a means to convey that information to the public. And it worked.
I, and every other adult male I know, make sexual (and sometimes sexist) jokes all the time. Especially during boring conferences. I also have three children. I am not a developer, but when I read the article I thought “It could have been me.”
Adria Richards is a nasty woman who eavesdrops on other people’s private conversations, then goes public about what she heard, even publishing pictures, to do MAXIMUM HARM to others. She had no second thoughts about ruining the life of a guy she didn’t even know. Who would want to work with such a person? I wouldn’t. Because she’s dangerous.
I guess that most female developers understood the message: “If you want to work with men, don’t be dangerous for them.”
* I see this kind of short sightedness mostly on the left because they are so convinced that they are totally right and that they will alway be in power because history is on their side or something.
You saw that in Richards who felt confident lashing out but was totally blindsided and amazed when the blowback came.
You see that in the Senate where Reid changed centuries old rules regarding the filibuster in order to achieve short term advantage, with no concern about what that would mean for Democrats in the distant future once they were again in the minority (which turned out to be a whole two years later).
It does not seem to occur to them that establishing the principle that it is OK to cause people who hold opinions or sing songs or tell jokes that you find disagreeable to lose their jobs, be expelled from college, etc. might someday come back to bite them.
Everything that they believe in is right, so how could you ever be punished for holding a correct opinion? And why should people of good conscience be made to feel unsafe in their school or workplace by having to tolerate those whose views are just plain wrong?
It never occurs to them that they could end up being on the other side of this equation as the ones considered “wrong”, because clearly (in their heads) they are and always will be right. If their views weren’t correct, they wouldn’t have them in the first place.
* The Greek-English idea was that argument should be a sport. They did pretty well for themselves out of it.
