CEO of NPM is accusing Reddit Node.js community of targeted harassment

I was willing to entertain his point of view for a moment.

Then the top post is inviting me to check the node subreddit to look at how much the community upvotes bigotry, and on first glance I see that's clearly bullshit.

Then I check one of this tweets trying to draw simpathy becauase some Random Person On The Internet called him a bigot, I follow the retweet, and the tweet calling him a bigot is a response to a tweet of his introducing racial / gender politics into fucking Javascript testing.

It looks like these days that every most of the time someone is making drama about abuse on Twitter is looks like they have done all the legwork to earn that abuse and are hoping you don't have 30 seconds to take a look at their sources and see their own dirty hands all over the buildup.

Remember kids, nothing good ever happens on Twitter and if you're spending a lot of time there then there's a huge chance you're going to regret it one way or another.

I read his Twitter feed.

I don't it's appropriate for someone who has taken 10 million dollars in VC funding and is currently responsible for running the largest package manager in the world to be making openly hateful statements towards the community using said package manager.

Probably time for a new CEO.

Can someone familiar with the story post a one-sentence summary?

This should probably be seen in the light of the recent strife in the node.js community that has led to a forking of the codebase into Ayo.js.

So whenever someone pearl-clutches about something nebulous like this without actually providing direct evidence it's important to look at how reliable they are as a source. In this case, the guy openly supports ANTIFA and has literally called for the pre-emptive murder of "Nazis" to help "convince" their followers:

"The moral and ethical response to fascism is violence. The fascist does not care about errors of thought, or respond to logical argument."

"Observe the fascist reaction to Damore's "scientific" reasoning. No one supporting him cares about actual science or free thinking."

[...]

"Historically, the only successful approach has been to publicly hang Nazi leaders and imprison Nazi sympathizers."

[...]

"A common objection is that we should try to convince Nazis to not be Nazis. I agree. We convince them by killing Nazis."

[In response to people suggesting that education, rather than murder, may be the best option]

"[Not NPM CEO] I'm all for education. The more immediate problem is that we have a bunch of white asshats running around playing Nazi."

"I think you meant to say: "The more immediate problem is we have a bunch of Nazis." "playing Nazi" === "being a Nazi""

https://imgur.com/a/2kD4O

Yeah, I'm not going to be lectured about harassment or bigotry by this guy.

And I think it's time for a new CEO.