Unity has temporarily closed its offices in San Francisco and Austin, Texas and canceled a town hall meeting after receiving death threats. The company made the call as a precaution against possible retribution after it announced a contentious change to its business model this week.
Of course not. I actually never said anyone deserves to die. If you read through the thread a little bit further, you’ll see me say that my impotent anger (and lack of calls for violence) are actually directed at whoever is responsible for this moneygrubbing sin.
I’m still blaming the company though. It, as a whole, is fucking over thousands of people. It should expect some people to react angrily when they see that their career, or at least the biggest part of their career, is over, and it’s because some semi-sentient suit decided he wanted more money right now, at the cost of the company’s reputation and your friend’s career after the company inevitably closes.
Wow you moved the goalposts fast. Your comment says “I’m blaming the victim”. My friend is the victim of these death threats. Backpedal as much as you want, but your comment clearly endorses violence against her.
Of course - if that’s not what you meant and you regret what you said, then I hope our interaction makes you think about the world more complexly in the future. Violence is not the answer. We can never move forward as a society by sinking to the lowest denominator. We have to rise above. We have to be better than the villans who are trying to ruin our world.
If you wanna call correcting an impulsive and misguided statement “moving the goalposts fast,” then sure
I’m not endorsing violence against anyone. I was blaming Unity as a company for inciting those death threats. Saying “what were they expecting?” isn’t endorsing the threats against them, it’s saying that they should have known better than to yank a bunch of people’s careers out from under them.
I hope you can understand that the hatred people have for Unity isn’t aimed toward your friend, the same way that the general public’s hatred toward Walmart isn’t aimed at the cashiers who work there.
Are people threatening your friend as a named individual, or are people threatening the company as a whole?
I’m glad you’re willing to say it was impulsive and misguided. I do understand the frustration - I feel it too. I’m on the same side of the issue as you.
Similarly, I hope you understand that I just can’t stand for people calling for violence.
From a practical perspective - by making these threats, all these people have done is undermined the position that you and I know is right.
Before, Unity had to answer for what they did. Now they can just pass off all criticism as coming from nutjobs who are crazy enough to make death threats. This is a great example of why language matters, and if we want our views to succeed, we have a responsibility to be better than the villans who stand in our way.
My friend works at unity. She’s a sweet person who takes care of an elderly dog in her free time. She was very opposed to this decision.
Does she deserve to die?
Of course not. I actually never said anyone deserves to die. If you read through the thread a little bit further, you’ll see me say that my impotent anger (and lack of calls for violence) are actually directed at whoever is responsible for this moneygrubbing sin.
I’m still blaming the company though. It, as a whole, is fucking over thousands of people. It should expect some people to react angrily when they see that their career, or at least the biggest part of their career, is over, and it’s because some semi-sentient suit decided he wanted more money right now, at the cost of the company’s reputation and your friend’s career after the company inevitably closes.
Wow you moved the goalposts fast. Your comment says “I’m blaming the victim”. My friend is the victim of these death threats. Backpedal as much as you want, but your comment clearly endorses violence against her.
Of course - if that’s not what you meant and you regret what you said, then I hope our interaction makes you think about the world more complexly in the future. Violence is not the answer. We can never move forward as a society by sinking to the lowest denominator. We have to rise above. We have to be better than the villans who are trying to ruin our world.
If you wanna call correcting an impulsive and misguided statement “moving the goalposts fast,” then sure
I’m not endorsing violence against anyone. I was blaming Unity as a company for inciting those death threats. Saying “what were they expecting?” isn’t endorsing the threats against them, it’s saying that they should have known better than to yank a bunch of people’s careers out from under them.
I hope you can understand that the hatred people have for Unity isn’t aimed toward your friend, the same way that the general public’s hatred toward Walmart isn’t aimed at the cashiers who work there.
Are people threatening your friend as a named individual, or are people threatening the company as a whole?
I’m glad you’re willing to say it was impulsive and misguided. I do understand the frustration - I feel it too. I’m on the same side of the issue as you.
Similarly, I hope you understand that I just can’t stand for people calling for violence.
From a practical perspective - by making these threats, all these people have done is undermined the position that you and I know is right.
Before, Unity had to answer for what they did. Now they can just pass off all criticism as coming from nutjobs who are crazy enough to make death threats. This is a great example of why language matters, and if we want our views to succeed, we have a responsibility to be better than the villans who stand in our way.