She will probably stay employed: github knows that the blowback of firing her will exceed the cost of maintaining her. Erica has a whole twitter posse ready, and she has a high profile in the media. github doesn't want a redo of timnit.
edited: she left the company before tweeting this.
This is clear advocacy for racial discrimination. She is now a legal liability for github. Someone who initiates a suit against github can use that post as evidence against them.
Interestingly her statement is not against "The Twitter Rules". There is no rule against advocating for discrimination.
Can we just stop using Twitter to post hot takes with no context? There's a big difference between a two-person team made up of white men and a 100-person engineering team made up of 98 men 95 of whom are white.
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[ 100 ms ] story [ 39.0 ms ] threadIf she's still employed by Gitub on Monday it will raise many questions.
edited: she left the company before tweeting this.
https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1341531644168007680
Interestingly her statement is not against "The Twitter Rules". There is no rule against advocating for discrimination.
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules
https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1341531644168007680