I explicitly said mistakes happen, chalking it up to accidental wording. Two comments up. [1]
And yes, I went very far out of my way to comment on the website I visit multiple times a day.
You can continue doing your word gymnastics. Again, “devs stationed in India” !== “Indian devs”. Yes, words are ambiguous, which is why it is important we try to get them right!
You are right he could have been more clear, but the backlash here is unwarranted since there was no way that comment was racist. Instead they should just have pointed out that he could have phrased the comment better, but assuming he is racist just because he phrased it poorly like many others here do is just toxic. It is very clear what he meant if you think a bit.
Would you please stop perpetutating this flamewar? You've made your point with 16 comments in this thread alone. That's quite enough—this is not a place for repeating the same arguments over and over, which only feeds them.
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."
Would you please stop perpetutating this flamewar? You've made your point with a dozen comments in this thread alone. That's quite enough—this is not a place for repeating the same arguments over and over, which only feeds them.
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."
Actually, it’s fairly amusing but if you even mildly reference the skill level of the mediocre middle-American developer, you will be flagkilled and downvoted.
But there’s a reason those guys are on Reddit and HN complaining they can’t pass whiteboard interviews and other people are not.
Would you please stop perpetutating this flamewar? You've made your point with 17 comments in this thread alone. That's quite enough—this is not a place for repeating the same arguments over and over, which only feeds them.
The GP obviously broke the site guidelines by tossing in casual flamebait in a way that was guaranteed to be inflammatory, but if the rest of you had followed the site guidelines yourselves, by flagging the comment instead of posting dozens of replies and blowing it up into a completely off-topic flamewar with 100+ comments and counting, the damage would have been minimal instead of extreme.
Also, we've had to ask you about exactly this sort of thing in the past. That's not cool.
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
