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The internet forgets and it forgets quickly. It was exactly 9 months ago that Adria Richards was fired for standing up against sexist behavior that is widely ingrained in the tech world. The coverage of her firing was seeped in the \u201cpolite racism\u201d that does not need to name names but can code racialized ideas under the guise of \u201cacceptable discourse\u201d or \u201cpropriety\u201d. Back then, the most publicized \u201cdefense\u201d of Adria Richards was written by a white woman who not only did not like Richards and clearly said so but invoked all the stereotypes of \u201cuppityness\u201d and \u201cproper behavior\u201d that span centuries of racialized sexism directed at Black women. In commenting about this \u201cdefense\u201d (I use quotation marks around defense because with \u201cdefenses\u201d like this one, who needs enemies?), I wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Notice how almost all the comments, even those in favor of Adria Richards, many of them (as the one I am quoting here), from White women defending Richards are all about disciplining the uppity Black woman.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t like her tone. Her vocal antics are improper. She didn\u2019t deserve to be fired but\u2026 It always boils down to it: the misbehaved Black woman should have known better. Even ostensibly feminist blogs are giving space to such opinions.<\/p>\n

This is what happens when WoC do not play by the rules of patriarchal White Supremacy: the racist version of \u201cslut had it coming\u201d. If only she had not been so outspoken, if only she didn\u2019t expose stuff she doesn\u2019t like\u2026 if only she had been docile.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mashable, one of the most read blogs covering issues of technology and the the tech world in the wider sense, had this to say about the topic<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The insane tale of Adria Richards’ dismissal from SendGrid is just the latest example of the social media-based public shaming trend. Don’t get me wrong. I am in no way endorsing Richards’ firing and especially not the horrifying comments and threats she received through social media. Nor am I in any way saying that she got what she deserved.<\/p>\n

However, there is a case to be made that this whole incident could have been avoided with one real-life conversation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Notice the \u201cshe didn\u2019t deserve it, but\u2026<\/em>\u201d caveat which is nothing but a rhetoric mechanism to say \u201cshe deserved it<\/em>\u201d. I mean, what comes after the \u201chowever\u201d completely invalidates the previous statement claiming she didn’t deserve to be fired.<\/p>\n

Exactly nine months after the above events took place, Justine Sacco, the top PR person for InterActiveCorp, the corporation that owns the Daily Beast, Vimeo, About.com, Match.com and Ask.com, among many others sent out an amazingly racist tweet before boarding a plane to South Africa. The ensuing reaction has been extensively documented all over media<\/a> and Sacco was fired from her job. Again, Mashable has an article about the events<\/a>\u00a0(emphasis mine):<\/p>\n

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Sacco is nearly impossible to defend<\/strong>. It seems she has left a trail of casual racism across social media on her various travels, making the hacking scenario unlikely, and explaining why her company rushed to denounce her \u2014 they knew it was most likely the genuine article. She certainly did herself no favors with this writer by sliming the British in a tweet during her pit stop in London earlier Friday.<\/p>\n

Still, it was hard to ignore a disturbing feeling in the mob’s response, and something creepy in the trial by social media that was going on in her absence. You could argue she did it to herself \u2014 all those pictures in the album “Too Much Swagger for White Girls (Miami ‘10)” are in the public part of her Facebook Timeline, after all.<\/p>\n

Then you could also read the hateful comments recently placed all over her Instagram feed, including on pictures of her child. That’s when you might realize this whole thing has gone too far.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

See? Sacco is NEARLY<\/em> impossible to defend. Not indefensible, not outrageous, not to be shunned, just nearly<\/em> impossible to defend.<\/p>\n

A white racist woman perpetuates awful ideas through social media and she is just nearly impossible<\/em> to defend. A Black woman stands against sexism and misogyny in the tech world, arguably making technology better for all women and well\u2026 she had it coming when she was fired<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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