(Warning: politics)
Posting a few links to relevant followups to the "Comment 171" situation and the related sexual harassment scandal and MIT's reaction which prompted that discussion. I'm posting these because the issue has come up in the last few weeks of open threads.
This piece seems like an excellent example of reading others as charitably as possible and essentially steelmanning every argument involved. It also gives a pretty good summary of the entire situation with relevant links.
Also, one of the women involved in the original sexual harassment situation has come forward to provide some details of what was actually going on: here. Here is the Slashdot thread on the article.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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