Twitter at the speed of parenting
Someday this will be the first chapter in a book of cautionary tales - “Destroying Communities by Failing to Separate Intention from Impact”
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In case you were wondering what’s happening in Reactland. tl;dr: tech speaker uses a white supremecist hand signal in a talk at a React conf; when asked about it, issues a nonapology.https://twitter.com/TatianaTMac/status/1166348406840864773 …
Factual account of #Reactgate with time-stamps and links. I hope to provide *clarity*—people may now draw their own conclusions.
Eternal gratitude && love for @fiinixdesign for doing the research and labour. Carlos is an incredible human and friend. 
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Dear fellow white people: when a person of color tells you you did something that makes them feel unsafe (because you *will* do that at some point) - treat that knowledge as a gift. Be horrified it had that effect. Issue real apology.
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Anything less than the above makes you actively complicit in upholding white supremacy. People notice & remember that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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This is the same speaker who wanted to fire a robotic crossbow on stage in 2017 and couldn’t understand why that might freak some people out so like...colour me unsurprised.
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There's more since the weekend: * Broader apology from Ken (the speaker) today https://twitter.com/ken_wheeler/status/1166407991404519424 … * And from Dan (prominent React tweeter) https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1166337839342247936 … https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1166365710811041792 … * Wider context about frustrations with Reacthttps://twitter.com/sonniesedge/status/1166247751497199622 …
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ty, seen plenty of subtweets but this is the first explainer
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Twitter is not the best platform to deal with these issues. That’s what I learned during the last couple of days.
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