On: Golang: Code of Conduct Updates

[nmjohn]

ESR didn't get cancelled for microaggressions. It was because he has a long history of being utterly vile towards black people and women, amongst other very much not "just a microaggression" behaviors.

[terracottage → nmjohn]

Whenever I hear this sort of second hand and third hand information, I assume it's a wild exaggeration, amplified through a whisper network.

If there is something concrete to point to, with evidence, people do. In the absence of that, I assume it's just malicious gossip.

Hasn't failed me yet.

[nmjohn → terracottage]

I mean, have you bothered to look? It's not a secret nor in private.

Defending eugenics in the comments: https://web.archive.org/web/20210419141913/http://esr.ibibli...

Claiming black people have a lower IQ than everyone else (in an argument that black people shouldn't own guns as a result): https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/816449724127608833

Claims LGBT people are making it up: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/769730601872044032/photo/1

Lots of racist comments: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/780839196231630848/photo/1

This is what I could find in less than 5 minutes of searching - the receipts are there, it is not "a wild exaggeration"

[tacitusarc → nmjohn]

Huh. Nothing there is overt, it all hides behind some questionable statistics, but it definitely makes me not want to have a beer with the guy.