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Apache foundation ousts TinkerPop project co-founder for tweeting 'offensive humor that borders on hate speech'

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Oh, the irony, a whole bunch of white guys (and token woman) cancel somone..

..that almost nobody knew about till today because of some silly personal tweets.

These people are obviously too clueless to be familiar with the Streisand Effect.

Or the first Law of Evasion. When presented with a lose/lose situation always do absolutely nothing unless no other alternative. And when forced to choose between the lose / lose alternatives always pick a third one which deflects attention away from the original "problem". Which is usually never actually a "problem" in the first place.

If anyone involved had a clue they would have said "not a technical issue, not our problem" but once they opened the whole pandoras box of "diversity and inclusion" this is exactly the sort of PR debacle which happens. Every time.

The people they are trying to pander to will never ever be satisfied. Whereas the people in the tech field whose respect they need just start shaking their heads thinking - what a bunch of complete idiots. Are they this stupid when making technical decisions too?

Because you really got to start wondering about the competence of these people after self-inflicted reputational wounds like this one.

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