She was "fired" because she said "do X or I'll resign", and someone said "ok, we accept your resignation". She also was in a managerial role and told her reports and others to basically stop doing the work they were doing, which will usually get you fired from any company for not following marching orders from the higher ups.

See what I was talking about 4 days ago! Just the name Gebru is triggering to (some) HN users.

My comment from 4 days ago:

“”” Sidenote: HN isn’t all fun and games. Please don’t paint it as that. When I (and peers that I’ve spoken with) talk about HN, it’s usually characterized as a forum where really smart people like to bump heads. A place where people like to outsmart each other. A place where people nitpick article titles. You get the idea.

Your behavior-correcting skills were needed during plenty of more appropriate times. For example, when someone with a username like “koreanguy” said that he wanted to personally kill Timnit Gebru if he could. No downvotes or flag after many refreshes. Want to know why? Because plenty of other men were leaving similar disgusting comments in that post. This is just one example out of many of “weird” behavior on this forum. How many times has the mod here left that “be nice and follow the guidelines” comment on charged articles? (Some) HN users love a good dogwhistle! “””

Not to say that this recent comment is absolutely negative in any way. But the floodgates are about to open lol

(Context: I left a very innocuous comment about SAT scores on that TI-83 calculator post and someone was trying to reprimand me for it lol. They called it strange behavior. I’m like “wait… huh… but isn’t this Hacker News? These people start acting like apes whenever Timnit Gebru is mentioned!”)