GitHub's Director of Engineering wants you to judge the skin color of creators

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6 points·hombre_fatal··6 comments

This is clear advocacy for racial discrimination. She is now a legal liability for github. Someone who initiates a suit against github can use that post as evidence against them.

Interestingly her statement is not against "The Twitter Rules". There is no rule against advocating for discrimination.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules

She left the company a week ago.

https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1341531644168007680

Can we just stop using Twitter to post hot takes with no context? There's a big difference between a two-person team made up of white men and a 100-person engineering team made up of 98 men 95 of whom are white.

Absolute disgrace. Thanks for bringing this to people's attention.

If she's still employed by Gitub on Monday it will raise many questions.

I'll post it a second time and then stop. She already left the company.

https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1341531644168007680

She will probably stay employed: github knows that the blowback of firing her will exceed the cost of maintaining her. Erica has a whole twitter posse ready, and she has a high profile in the media. github doesn't want a redo of timnit.

edited: she left the company before tweeting this.

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