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Noah you are saying this now but your original apology says the opposite. Which is it?

Where do you see that in the original apology?

https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2020/06/noah-bradley-admi...

Follow the links from his Wikipedia page and you can see Twitter threads where he responded directly to allegations like this with links to the apology.

Not very helpful, even with digging I don't see what you are talking about. Please post the link.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Bradley

Live Twitter reference Link

https://twitter.com/Blackdeerly/status/1274715678444945412

Dead Twitter reference Links

https://twitter.com/noahbradley/status/1274670378296774658

https://twitter.com/abigbat/status/1293860934600003585

You can simply follow the first Wikipedia footnote on "cut all ties", in the opening paragraph of the article.

Ok since you don't post links I'll assume you are referring to:

'Bradley’s statement came the morning after concept artist Betty Jiang posted accusations on Twitter about a “bald headed crusty assed ‘well known’ artist who went around groping female devs,” saying that she hoped “to never see you and your shitty v-neck shirts at any workshops or conventions.”'

He apologized for a lot of things, but I don't see him admitting to or apologizing for groping anyone.

https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2020/06/noah-bradley-admi...

As I said: you can see screenshots of threads where he was accused both of "groping" and of taking advantaged of intoxicated women at events, and he responded with a link to the apology. Follow the first footnote from the Wikipedia article, and then click the screenshot on the first message in the Twitter thread.

I have no way of judging the veracity of either side of this argument, but it sure looks like the allegations against him were specific --- at the time.

So the tweet paraphrased above, here is the link... Which again he didn't directly reply to and didn't say anything about groping anyone in his apology... Is it really that hard to link?

https://twitter.com/BettyDesuJiang/status/127450059571858227...

I think you don't see Noah's reply because he deleted that tweet? At least, I can't find the "a long overdue acknowledgement" tweet on twitter any more. So what tptacek says seems accurate to me.

> I think you don't see Noah's reply because he deleted that tweet?

Several times above, I have included a link [1] with both a screenshot and description which in no way indicate that... He was accused of being a known groper but that was not a behavior he explicitly apologized for.

[1] https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2020/06/noah-bradley-admi...

No, I mean deleted the reply tweet that you see in this screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbCzIRoU0AcR8Qk?format=jpg&name=...

This is what tptacek was referring to when he said that he used this apology in response to groping allegations.

It's hard to tell what's going on in twitter threads though. Twitter sucks at archiving this kind of info.

Yes that is the same tweet referenced above. They accused him of multiple things such as "groping female devs", "trying to pour drinks down the throat" of a drunk girl who bit his face. He apologized for SIC "shitty, creepy" behavior, but he never explicitly apologized for groping & wasn't accused of groping anyone specifically. I don't see how any of that is inconsistent with the author saying above that he didn't grope anyone.

I was just responding to your statmeent that Noah didn’t ‘didn't directly reply’ to the groping allegations. As far as I can tell, he did, as you can see in the screenshot.

I don't use twitter and they have multiple UI for platform but AFAIK when you reply it usually says "replying to @...", which it didn't have in the screenshot or archive.

https://archive.vn/69yo0

You've just demonstrated conclusively that he never claimed to grope anyone.

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