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Context for people who don’t know what this is referring to: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-github-backlash-je...

Kudos to them for this. Screenshots of the conversations leaked [1], and there is no ambiguity as to who was in the wrong here. Note the timestamp on the thread — the comment happened well after the terrorists had invaded the Capitol.

Hopefully whoever said “nazis gave the jews free healthcare” was fired as well.

[1] https://twitter.com/zoeschiffer/status/1350159432282357760?s...

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fwiw, the healthcare joke was tongue-in-cheek for the discussion which, ironically enough, was also about Republicans in 2014. They were discussing how many on the right compared Obamacare to Nazism and how disgusting it was to make that comparison.

Oh wow, that's taken way out of context in at least The Verge article then. Not actually a joke at Jewish expense at all, at least other than not mentioning it at all.

All these leaked screenshots, quotes, etc are almost certainly missing full context.

It's rather discouraging that in `date +%Y` so few are aware or care about selective cropping. It's everywhere.

Well, I assume The Verge has more journalistic integrity than that (it's not done for emphasis, it totally flips the tone of the message from 'pro' to 'anti' (as it were)!) so it's disappointing that someone at GitHub leaking the story seemingly decided to take that message out of a context they could see, knowing that anyone else seeing it would read it as pro-Nazi without it, to make the point 'how dare this person still be employed by GH'. Both leaker and author of that message would seem to be on the same side, saying something in defense of Jewish people, but leaker is all but calling for the other to be fired for it...

Maybe they just searched 'Nazi' and took screenshots without reading context.

fwiw, the healthcare joke was tongue-in-cheek

It was sheer idiocy, and has no place in a sane, decent working environment.

There’s no ambiguity if the firing was only about the original comment - that screenshot however is missing possible further comments from the fired employee. If the discussion turned disrespectful (e.g. personal attacks), that could explain why HR did the firing yet had no issue with other instances of the word “nazi”. Still probably not a justified firing, but would make more sense.

You are really going to take that out-of-context 2014 post bait as truth? Really? You don't think it should be investigated a bit more before firing someone?

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