Okay, I really wanted this to die, but @lizupton - comms officer of Raspberry Pi Ltd - is now claiming that the entire #raspberrypi social media drama was actually because her company posted a picture of pigs-in-blankets, and not because they hired an ex-surveillance cop and then acted like dickheads when asked about it. 😱
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversy
@whalecoiner @lizupton I agree the handling is really bad, but I also feel like hiring someone who is no longer causing harm by being a law enforcement officer is a chance to rehabilitate him into a member of society. So I don’t think either side looks good. This is just my viewpoint though. I realize mine isn’t the prevailing view on this issue.
@cjwatson @whalecoiner @lizupton That’s true. I agree with that. They are glorifying something that is extremely wrong. I wasn’t thinking of that.
@derickflorian @whalecoiner @lizupton Thing is, there's a big difference between (a) hiring a former surveillance cop and (b) hiring a former surveillance cop and making an excited post about how your new hire was a surveillance cop and isn't that cool