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A former employee of Wikipedia’s parent company has filed a federal lawsuit alleging she was fired after reporting her direct supervisor for gender discrimination and harassment.

The woman, Kayla Mae, was hired by the Wikimedia Foundation in November 2022, where she worked as a software engineer for nearly two years.

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[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oof, that's a comment in terrible taste.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If you’re not a heterosexual rich white male, you feel the problems.

Why? This is what I responded to, look at the context. He also insinuated in earlier comments that him being in a same sex marriage somehow supported his argument? Arguing about living in a state that allow same sex marriage was a "feature" of USA, where the obvious problem is the states that don't.
And please notice that that comment ended the discussion. Because it was so stupid I didn't care to respond to that.

I don't care if people are gay or not, but clearly it's an issue to u/blakenong.
IDK why he interpreted it as an anti gay comment, when clearly by his own admission, it was a strong influence on him.

[–] blakenong -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look at you tripping all over yourself trying to defend your sensitive white heterosexual male feelings. The problem with people like you is that you are incapable of understanding anything outside of yourself because you’ve never had to face any real challenges in life. Then you go off and mock other people as if you’re somehow superior because of what you were born with but never earned.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you’ve never had to face any real challenges in life.

And you know this how?

Then you go off and mock other people

How did I mock you? You mentioned yourself it was a factor in your understanding of society. I just tried to show you that it might not work quite the way you think.

as if you’re somehow superior because of what you were born with

What was I born with? I was born with just about the most basic privileges everybody in Denmark was born with at the time. As far as I remember our debate started with exactly the fact that I consider USA a shitty country, because those privileges don't exist in USA. And for some reason you defended USA?
Lucky for you, that you are not stuck in one of the worst states, maybe you would see things differently if you were.

[–] blakenong -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It started because you don’t understand how state vs federal government works, and that you assume every place in the US is the same because all you do is drink up the media like it’s the only facts that exist. Then you shit all over innocent people and think you’re the good guy.

Since we are shitting, maybe if your mind wasn’t so irreparably flawed you wouldn’t be getting off on the misfortunes of others so frequently.

Goodbye

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It started because you don’t understand how state vs federal government works,

That was your claim, but I already explained that actually I do. Here we even learn about American democracy in public school, so don't project your own ignorance onto me.

[–] blakenong 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But you don’t. Or you wouldn’t have thought the DMV in Florida represents the entire country. You keep saying you know, but everything out of your mouth suggests you have minimal knowledge. The kind of minimal knowledge that comes from a chapter of a book in public school.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or you wouldn’t have thought the DMV in Florida represents the entire country.

Again, that's your flawed interpretation, the DMV is just an example of it.

[–] blakenong 0 points 1 day ago

Your comments speak to your ignorance, I don’t really have to prove anything.