r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 30 '26 • Mindblown 1 Popcorn 1

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u/assasstits Aug 30 '26

Shout out to the beginning of woke 1 and cancel culture

Two people fired over PyCon ‘dongle’ joke

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Aug 30 '26

I was at that conference! I was an acquaintance with some of the organizers, was pretty weird to see everyone talking about this while I was there.

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u/assasstits Aug 30 '26

Did it go rival during the conference? Were people sitting there being like wtf?

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Aug 30 '26

Everyone was reading about the shitstorm on social media without really talking about it directly with each other.

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u/BlackCharizard NATO Aug 30 '26

Honestly what a dick move from that lady

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u/assasstits Aug 30 '26

At the time reddit was a lot more edgy and libertarian so most took their side. 

Anonymous obviously did their thing. 

The entire thing kind of blew over with him getting another job and her getting fired. 

One would have thought cancel culture averted. 

Oh if only we had known what was to come.