Because there are lots of people who do great things who aren't assholes.
We as a society should prioritize valourzing the non-assholes who do great things over the assholes who do great things.
We as a society should prioritize valourzing the non-assholes who do great things over the assholes who do great things.
I'm not trying to criticize those people or imply anything about them. But in my experience a lot of assholes kind of fly under the radar because they're not in the public eye and no one speaks up.
I personally know LOTS of brilliant people in the bay area tech scene who are not assholes, and are wonderful kind people, so if you only know assholes, you're hanging out with and licking the boots of the wrong people, and that's your problem, and you should re-think who your friends and heros are.
And I flagged your comment for accusing me of licking boots. You don't even know me. Do better.
I wonder if conflating assholery with talent or accomplishment is particularly common in bay-area start up culture.
Just seemed like a fun thought experiment.
People save other people's lives all the time. We hear about it and also would hear about people dying in the attempt and yet.. Don't hear much about it.
The less assholes you have to deal with in your day to day affairs the better off you are.
If the goal of the collective action is to cancel anyone who (like Watson did) asserts that one race of people is on average less intelligence than another race, then say so.