The sensible thing to do:
“Okay, we screwed up yesterday, sorry.”
The corporate thing to do:
[ignore everything on the matter, continue posting marketing stuff]
The batshit thing to do:
Talking to Buzzfeed about how “this is all an organized effort by a woke crowd with bad intentions because we didn’t put a content warning on a food picture two days ago”
For some reason we’re in the timeline where @Raspberry_Pi decided to do the latter.
@scy @Raspberry_Pi They're just actively pro-police... Wow, ewwwww.
I really thought that it was just one bad social media person handling the account, but they really do seem to think like that.
@manawyrm @Raspberry_Pi Yeah, I mean, yesterday I was like “okay, let’s see how their apology is going to turn out, then I’ll decide on whether I’m going to support them in the future.”
Today I’m like “you know, forget the apology, there’s no way for my respect to recover from _this_.”
Well, that answers that. The founders of the company are right wing assclowns. So no more Pi projects from me, end of line.
@scy @ I still truly don't care that
1) @Raspberry_Pi hired a surveillance officer to work at HQ, in fact if anything I'm glad they did
2) that people were upset by this move, they can all just go outside for a walk and calm the hell down.
It boggles my mind we are still talking about this at all.
@utahcon Well dbrand isn’t posing as a fucking charity. A lot of us were buying at @Raspberry_Pi because we thought that they were the good guys™.
As I’ve said elsewhere: I’m not against resocialization of police officers, but “he built cool surveillance tech, that’s why we hired him and not other people from the community” is a ridiculously bad spin.
And being conspiracy-theorizing assholes when the community starts criticizing you isn’t the best move either.
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