{"id":2257,"date":"2021-01-12T20:02:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T20:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1333873"},"modified":"2021-01-12T20:02:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T20:02:23","slug":"hundreds-sign-letter-demanding-answers-after-github-fires-jewish-employee-for-calling-insurrectionists-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=2257","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds sign letter demanding answers after Github fires Jewish employee for calling insurrectionists Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/tnw?filter_last=1&amp;fit=1280%2C640&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2018%2F06%2Fmicrosoft_github.jpg&amp;signature=8f4655118b9d1cf02cf4ef37f1814883\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Github, a Microsoft company, allegedly fired a Jewish employee for saying \u201cthere are Nazis about\u201d in reaction to the insurrectionist occupation of the US Capital building last week.<\/p>\n<p>Business Insider today broke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/microsoft-github-backlash-jewish-employee-termination-2021-1?r=MX&amp;IR=T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">the story<\/a> reporting that \u201csome 200\u201d employees had signed a letter demanding answers from the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natfriedman?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CEO Nat Friedman<\/a>. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/microsoft-github-backlash-jewish-employee-termination-2021-1?r=MX&amp;IR=T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> (paywall), the employee received a warning from HR for their comment before being terminated for what the company claims is a pattern of misconduct.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong> Without knowing exactly what Github\u2019s claiming the employee did before the \u201cNazi\u201d statement it\u2019s difficult to assess whether the blow-back against the company is likely to die out or become a grassroots movement similar to the currently unfolding situation surrounding <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2020\/12\/11\/backlash-intensifies-pichais-promises-do-little-to-quell-outrage-over-timnit-gebrus-firing\/\">Google\u2019s firing of eminent AI ethicist and researcher Timnit Gebru<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But, we can say beyond a shadow of doubt that there were, in fact, Nazis \u201cabout\u201d during the insurrection at the Capital. Neo-Nazi groups were among those responsible for organizing and attending the attempted coup to overthrow the US government.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.3103448275862\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">But Nazi\u2019s were literally \u201cabout\u201d . . . <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oWhREbxP54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/oWhREbxP54<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peep Peep (@peeppeeparoo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peeppeeparoo\/status\/1349073309132935173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">January 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Quick take:<\/strong> Friedman says they\u2019re going to get to the bottom of things and sort out exactly what happened, but the damage is done. It\u2019s common knowledge that one of the insurrectionists, pictured in the tweet above, wore a \u201cCamp Auschwitz\u201d shirt to the event. Unless the fired employee\u2019s alleged pattern of misbehavior is egregious enough to put the general public off to their firing, Microsoft can add this to its suite of PR problems which include several controversial contracts with <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/politics\/2019\/10\/09\/github-microsoft-trump-ice-contract\/\">ICE and the Pentagon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/microsoft\/2021\/01\/12\/hundreds-sign-letter-demanding-answers-after-github-fires-jewish-employee-for-calling-insurrectionists-nazis\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Github, a Microsoft company, allegedly fired a Jewish employee for saying \u201cthere are Nazis about\u201d in reaction to the insurrectionist occupation of the US Capital building last week. 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