Whatever your opinion on Shanley Kane, nobody deserves this kind of treatment. It amazes me, continually, that the same sort of people who are quick to defend the "meritocracy" of technology are also the sort who are equally quick to violently silence anyone who disagrees.
I think you can probably co-opt the "the comments on every article about feminism justify feminism" quote into "the reaction to criticising (an|a toxic) online community justifies the criticism". And this is why we don't have nice things.
Considering the source is a sociopath engaging in equal opportunity hatred towards whatever is weakest in front of her for her own advancement through social manipulation rather than merit, I'm going to need some police reports rather than her words to believe this.
This is the same person who just doxxed a journalist who dared write about her negatively [1], and made up a story (quite similar to the current one) about another journalist who wrote about her positively [2].
This person is being assessed for their actions: changing from a far-right racist to a far-left racist/sexist. Their pretending to be a victim was fairly predictable.
You're free to read the Elizabeth Spiers article or the person's own tweets, but generally on HN we respond to the point rather than the source. You can find plenty of linked evidence on this person's own twitter account, including such gems as https://twitter.com/shanley/status/487669792862511104. This person is a well known online troll and their work 'towards' diversity in technology is a mechanism for gaining attention and counterproductive to their stated cause.
I don't think -many- people (outside of the obvious communities) would take umbrage with "white males are often dicks to women in business situations" given the preponderance of evidence.
In that case I've entirely missed what was said because the words I read just seem to be about male cofounders potentially being dicks. I definitely cannot see Milo's "he'll rape you one day" interpretation but I suspect that's largely because he's made that up.
There is no context in a single tweet - and there's no mention of sexual assault in the replies I can see. Where does the "he will rape you" come from? Is there another tweet I can look at? Or a Storify collection of them?
