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Microsoft Architect Steve Marx tweeted on the issue with:

This is truly getting out of hand … (I mean the lynching, not the jokes.)

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To which she bravely responded:

and I'm upset I had to listen to the stuff behind me yesterday. I'm Black. Has anyone in your family been ever encountered lynching?"

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@smarx Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

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And it reads like Steve Marx was supporting her too. I can't believe her response! I imagine she misunderstood, from reading so many insults on twitter.

That's not bravery. It's just cheap anti-intellectualism.

He cough cough was being sarcastic about the bravery bit.

Thanks. It's been hard to tell sometimes, in this thread.

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