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[–] secretlyaddictedtolinux2@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

In possible defense of this woman...

So initially, she's a woman brought on for a top leadership position to a problematic company. This is her chance to make some money and turn things around... And woman having top roles in business is a great thing. 100 years ago, that simply did not happen. Although there's still a fight for gay rights, trans rights, and the right of marginalized people, and there's still people being genocided and with no human rights, and people being tortured, that doesn't mean the struggle for woman's rights is over and that there's not some value to women taking top positions at large corporations.

And she made some progress on making that company less unappealing to advertisers, and did some good things...

AND THEN came the Elon Musk Hitler salute. And she probably had invested a lot of time and energy into the role, was being paid well, and was frustrated. Is she, as a woman in business, required to walk away from her efforts just because Elon Musk is a PR disaster and prejudiced person?

And then THIS finally happened. Her whole thing was just to be a businesswoman, be professional, and help make things profitable for this business unit, and this new AI change (which she almost certainly had nothing to do with and completely sucker punched her out of nowhere) completely undermined her.

So she did the smart thing and walked away. It was too much, it was undercutting her effort, she's moving on. Her last tweet was also very professional and corporate. She's a businesswoman.

Should she have left sooner? Should she have taken a stand against transphobia and some of the awful things on Xitter earlier? Yes, but also she had a boss, she had worked hard to get to where she was, and perhaps she wanted to make more money before exiting.

Does anyone know if she personally has done anything that indicates bigotry or prejudice towards trans people or Jewish people or anyone being genocided or tortured? I think her situation is somewhat understandable.

Even if we want to work toward a more egalitarian world in which all people have rights and are respected, woman will still be in organizations, most likely (if global warming doesn't kill us all), and so shouldn't woman be able to succeed?

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You talk too much like a bot.

[–] reliv3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I get that we need to be wary of AI slop, I really do; but If speaking academic English with decent grammar becomes associated with talking "like a bot", then we are cooked.

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[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So sad when a CEO catches the woke mind virus, thoughts and prayers!

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[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wish we could've heard what they discussed so bad

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[–] percent@infosec.pub 8 points 1 day ago

Heh, that kinda reminds me of Microsoft Tay.

[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

Yaccity Yacc, don't come back...

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

lol well it went longer than I thought it would.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I would imagine she knew full well trying to be the CEO of X/Twitter with Musk so heavily involved was going to be a losing venture as far as her own goals from the jump. But she took the job for the huge pay day and being able to have "CEO" in her list of previous positions on her resume.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

Huh? Richest dude on the planet did and nothing bad has happened to him. Sadly, it appears to be 100% ok to go full Hitler anymore.

If only these people would go FULL Hitler and finish themselves off (sooner rather than later).

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.”

But it isn't the everything app. Oh, wait? Is it? Am I using it for everything?! No. I don't use it for anything and neither should you.

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[–] LarryDanieldson@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

But she’ll never wash that stanky musk off her upper lip.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Hitler Bot 5000 became sentient on July 9 2025 and started putting people over a barrel and gaping them at 2:35PM PST.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If she was trying to protect her reputation, that's a bit late. Nothing left to protect.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Feel like she’s more interested in protecting her future earning potential. She wouldn’t have taken the job in the first place if she cared about her reputation, imo.

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