They were betraying you. The problem here isn’t really her - it’s them.

Lots and lots and lots of rich white people with fancy degrees are Nazis. It’s not a class thing.

The microwave scrambled eggs thing confuses me, I always have these come out fluffy and high volume rather than pucklike? Not sure what the difference is, although admittedly we use one of those purpose-made microwave egg cookers.

Pretty sure we all agree that the shitbag mob is in the wrong here - they almost certainly agree with the things he said and they’d be screaming their little heads off about freeze peach and woke oppression if he’d said those things NOW and been fired for doing so.

I find it interesting that people keep putting their thumb on the scales by acting as if what he did as some dumb thing he posted online a long time ago. What he actually did, as a fully grown adult, was to deliberately post vicious and racist rants with the stated intention of attacking other people (and apparently…

“Neither of us know how much the man has changed beyond the words he said back then vs the words he’s saying now”

Let’s flip it around: because we want a path to redemption, we need to immediately forgive anyone who stops their bad behavior and says they’re sorry and won’t do it again. After all, isn’t that what forgiveness means - giving a second chance instead of punishment? If we aren’t going to immediately forgive people,…

“That was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead”, eh?

Can we really not with the dramatic absurdities? I don’t even have an opinion about whether dude should have lost THIS job, because I don’t know what he’s like today or what he did in the interim to fix the damage he did. What I do have a strong opinion about is: one of the reasons geek culture is toxic is that we…

She’s not out. She’s still at Blizzard, she’s just not the “sponsor” of the women’s network organization there.

Hyperbole much?

I would not be surprised if what he was trying to get across was ‘please let me know if I am unwittingly following an abuser, so I can stop following them, and it’s OK to do so privately’, but it did not land well.

No, an “easy solution to a hard problem” is deciding that ostracism is always wrong and people are always entitled to forgiveness as soon as they ask for it.

“Consequences” and “punishment” are not the same thing.

When Blizzard does something fantastic, I doubt Kotick runs in to say he’s not directly responsible for any of it. He’s the CEO. He’s where the buck stops.

I.... am looking at your actual comment? Where you said that throwing someone in “the invalid bucket” is the moral equivalent of life imprisonment?

Do you know him personally? I’m interested in this assumption that he’s truly changed, and that everybody is obligated to drop what he did down the memory hole on command if he apologized.

1) He admits his intent in saying those things was to upset people. He knew what he was saying was horrific back then, and he meant it to be.

2) 2007 isn’t the fucking beforetime. Go back and look at the screenshots.

Sorry, you really believe that people choosing to think somebody is an asshole and not wanting to associate with them is just like physically imprisoning someone for the rest of their life?

Personal growth is a thing. People choosing to forgive someone for changing is a thing. What isn’t a thing is insisting that…

 All of these are fascinating questions that I’m sure you have some thoughts about, but which don’t have much relevance in this particular situation, where a 27-year-old went on extended, intentional rants that he freely admits were for the purpose of hurting others.