Let me prephase this by saying this is my take on the situation: I think that this whole interaction has been framed into a very specific set of issues in the world right now and observers seeing through that frame are blinded to a certain degree, as to what actually is the problem.
Adam reacted the way he did because Sara by the very least partially agreed with an article (by choosing to share the link at all) that hadn't explored the configuration options available to any developer using Tailwind. Regardless, whether or not she agreed or disagreed is not the point. It is right to say that he shouldn't have worded his emotional turmoil the way he did, but then again if it is someone you held in high regard it can get difficult.
I would dare to say that it has nothing to do with Adam being white or a man or Sara being an immigrant or a woman. It's just a person expressing how she agrees with someone else, and someone that built what the other 2 are criticizing feeling emotional about it. While not the perfect way of reacting, it can make sense because literally no one fully knows or understands the work and effort that was put into making the product.
A fine example of this (while not an exact representation but bear with me) is how Hackernews is literally shitting on mightyapp.com/, how people that try to agree/disagree with whether or not Mighty is an initiative worth taking criticize not only the ideas/points made but the people themselves and how the founder at some point had blocked (on Twitter) a few of those that argued against the product.
Did it matter to the founder that among the people criticizing there were women, immigrants, white people, black people, etc.? I highly doubt it. Is it in his right to do so? Yeah, because he's probably dealing with a crap ton of stress. Should it matter anyway? The reaction regardless is obviously emotional.
People criticize other people, and it is natural. People feel hurt and that is also natural. People behave in ways that you wouldn't expect them to when feeling hurt which is also natural. This is true for anyone involved devoid of race, sex, or any other label that's slapped on us.
I would also dare to say that this issue could've been solved easily if only the involved parties talked about it for a bit instead of us, completely irrelevant people discussing the problem without the full context of how either side felt, what they've been through, and how they see each other as.
There are problems where people coming together is important, but this clearly isn't it. Then again, that's what I think.
Many of us know quite well the effort that was put into making a framework because we, too, have worked on compilers. Your comparison is not a great one, because we aren't talking about Adam blocking Sara, we're talking about the comment he made, and that he didn't at all think he should "consider how he would be perceived and his large platform", and this is entirely because of systemic sexism and racism. When you're not held accountable for this kind of behavior, while marginalized folks have to consider these things to simply safely exist in these spaces - that's enabling and upholding that same system.
We wouldn't be having this conversation had Adam taken the time to consider how irrational and manipulative what he was typing was, his enormous cult-like following and how they might treat Sara as a result, not because we wouldn't know about it and have the opportunity to talk about how racism and sexism enable and protect this type of behavior, but because it would have meant that Adam thought critically at all, instead of just reacting off of his unfounded expectations of Sara.
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Let me prephase this by saying this is my take on the situation: I think that this whole interaction has been framed into a very specific set of issues in the world right now and observers seeing through that frame are blinded to a certain degree, as to what actually is the problem.
Adam reacted the way he did because Sara by the very least partially agreed with an article (by choosing to share the link at all) that hadn't explored the configuration options available to any developer using Tailwind. Regardless, whether or not she agreed or disagreed is not the point. It is right to say that he shouldn't have worded his emotional turmoil the way he did, but then again if it is someone you held in high regard it can get difficult.
I would dare to say that it has nothing to do with Adam being white or a man or Sara being an immigrant or a woman. It's just a person expressing how she agrees with someone else, and someone that built what the other 2 are criticizing feeling emotional about it. While not the perfect way of reacting, it can make sense because literally no one fully knows or understands the work and effort that was put into making the product.
A fine example of this (while not an exact representation but bear with me) is how Hackernews is literally shitting on mightyapp.com/, how people that try to agree/disagree with whether or not Mighty is an initiative worth taking criticize not only the ideas/points made but the people themselves and how the founder at some point had blocked (on Twitter) a few of those that argued against the product.
Did it matter to the founder that among the people criticizing there were women, immigrants, white people, black people, etc.? I highly doubt it. Is it in his right to do so? Yeah, because he's probably dealing with a crap ton of stress. Should it matter anyway? The reaction regardless is obviously emotional.
People criticize other people, and it is natural. People feel hurt and that is also natural. People behave in ways that you wouldn't expect them to when feeling hurt which is also natural. This is true for anyone involved devoid of race, sex, or any other label that's slapped on us.
I would also dare to say that this issue could've been solved easily if only the involved parties talked about it for a bit instead of us, completely irrelevant people discussing the problem without the full context of how either side felt, what they've been through, and how they see each other as.
There are problems where people coming together is important, but this clearly isn't it. Then again, that's what I think.
Many of us know quite well the effort that was put into making a framework because we, too, have worked on compilers. Your comparison is not a great one, because we aren't talking about Adam blocking Sara, we're talking about the comment he made, and that he didn't at all think he should "consider how he would be perceived and his large platform", and this is entirely because of systemic sexism and racism. When you're not held accountable for this kind of behavior, while marginalized folks have to consider these things to simply safely exist in these spaces - that's enabling and upholding that same system.
We wouldn't be having this conversation had Adam taken the time to consider how irrational and manipulative what he was typing was, his enormous cult-like following and how they might treat Sara as a result, not because we wouldn't know about it and have the opportunity to talk about how racism and sexism enable and protect this type of behavior, but because it would have meant that Adam thought critically at all, instead of just reacting off of his unfounded expectations of Sara.