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		microcolonel on Nov 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journal... > A senior executive at Uber suggested that the company should consider hiring a team of opposition researchers to dig up dirt on its critics in the media — and specifically to spread details of the personal life of a female journalist who has criticized the company. Is it at all relevant that the journalist is female?

ripb on Nov 18, 2014 [–]

It's totally irrelevant to what happened but totally relevant to the current mainstream narrative of women versus men.

It allows them to take something non-gendered and create an absolute shitstorm from it.

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