The irony of a Silicon Valley guy tweeting “I got a higher credit limit on my Apple Card than my wife did” and it finally draws media attention to algorithmic bias is not lost on me
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Replying to @manjusrii
I think you should do some more research on
@dhh as he is quite the opposite of any Silicon Valley norms. Runs a small team in Chicago, doesn’t take capital to build really great things, preaches against just about every disfunction in the valley, etc1 reply 0 retweets 63 likes -
He hasn’t done anything wrong. This is not about him (or I didn’t intend it to be). It’s about how we ignore algorithmic bias most of the time - especially for people who don’t have a powerful voice. Why?
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Not the point being made though. He's one of the good people. His company does things very differently. It's no surprise that he was the one that called this out. I think you're doing him a bit of a disservice. Just because he works in tech doesn't mean he's the same as the rest.
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Replying to @PaulDJohnston @manjusrii and
But I agree with the other point around lots of other people not being heard.
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Replying to @PaulDJohnston @manjusrii and
Why rush to his defense when he wasn't even being attacked? Kinda proves her point that people like to focus more on tech founders (however evil or awesome) than the ordinary people who get ripped off...
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Replying to @spectrelshift @manjusrii and
I'm rushing to his defence because I think he deserves to be defended on this one. If we all just sit back and let people get attacked this world would be crap... *whoever* they are. I agree with the other part of her statement. Honestly!
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Replying to @PaulDJohnston @manjusrii and
she wasn't attacking him....god knows he had a hard enough time getting something done about it too!
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Replying to @spectrelshift @manjusrii and
My tweet said "I think you're doing him a bit of a disservice". IOW I'm trying to gently say something like maybe the words used weren't quite right ones to use. He's already an ally in the fight and if this issue was going to be raised, it's not an unsurprising source.
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Replying to @PaulDJohnston
I believe you’re falling into exactly what the original tweet was bemoaning: focusing on the person not deserving the focus in this situation. If DHH is an ally, he wouldn’t have minded being called an SV guy. That’s the kind of stuff allyship is about.
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The focus here should be people who don’t have DHH’s power and reach and privilege, not debating the exact shade of white-man-in-tech-iness.
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Replying to @mwichary
Go and read my replies because I agreed with the original tweet. I was simply pointing out that I thought that it did DHH a disservice which it does. There can be more than one focus believe it or not. Not everything is simple. There can be nuance to a conversation.
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Replying to @PaulDJohnston
A real ally, especially a privileged one, knows when to amplify and when to be quiet, rather than nitpick nonimportant stuff ad nauseam, detracting from and thus undermining real issues. You might say you agree with the original tweet, but your actions say otherwise.
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