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Comment by BrainInAJar | Hacker News Reader

whose career ? Name one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5419071

I don't have more time to figure out the guy's name but his HN username is mr-hank: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681

Richards got fired and got loads of death threats and racist messages, because of a single tweet. The guy got off easier with just being fired.

I didn't know that this was a competition.

Also someone else getting worse makes this okay? Two wrongs make it right?

The dudebros also got new jobs. Richards did not.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/13/tim-hunt-hun...

was reinstated, is a professor of immunology at the same university.

Do you have a source for that? All I can find (from Wikipedia) is that he was forced to resign from three positions he held, and that he was reappointed to one.

There's another article from a news source I don't particularly trust saying he was offered a new position in Japan.

Either way, even if he's doing fine now it was months of upheaval and a dedicated witch-hunt over comments that were taken completely out of context.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681

Still has a job, just not the same job. Same can't be said for Adria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Elliott

Dude continuously harasses a woman well after being told to stop, then having his account suspended. That's not "I said the wrong thing", that's criminal harassment.

Scott Aaronson had some pretty tough times for doing absolutely nothing.

Then he got a promotion, and now leads an institute at UT

If you have to ask this question, I'd say you're either not paying attention or being willfully ignorant of the tightrope-walking act men have to perform these days to not get lynched by internet mobs.

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