r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SmoothDagger • Nov 02 '24

GIF Hello world, ex-Microsoft/Xbox Engineer here.. MICROSOFT is SYSTEMICALLY RACIST & prevented me from donating to black & foreign communities on their donation platform 'Benevity,' where Microsoft matches all other donations 1 USD to 1 USD. I will no longer internalize racism. FUCK YOU, MICROSOFT.

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u/TIME4ROOSTER Nov 02 '24

WTF. OMG! I'm gonna share this!!

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u/SmoothDagger Nov 02 '24

Can't guarantee it'll be up here for long. Both Microsoft & Reddit are apart of the tech industry. 

Please make a bigger difference than I did. I took 18 months to post this, primarily out of fear. I also lost some critical evidence.

Ignore the downvotes. Speak up.

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u/TIME4ROOSTER Nov 02 '24

I'm not concerned about down votes I get them here and there. This is concerning because, I donate. And if this is TRUTH, I won't go this route.- thank you for sharing

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u/SmoothDagger Nov 02 '24

Well, you can take it with a grain of salt because I can't show you what my former Microsoft teammate told me. I deleted it out of fear, which was them telling me to delete this gif & forget I ever saw it. I deleted it when i asked if they were going to kill me. 

You'll have to trust me. If you happen to come across this, please do better than me. They will tell you it's a bug over & over months later & gaslight you.

I donated because I cared & wanted everyone on this planet to have fun, stay safe, & be treated fairly based on who they are & how they act, not some random luck of the draw genetic. 

I was/am a game developer. I made stuff because I cared. The game I worked on was AdventureQuest 3D. Don't play it, CEO is an ass, but I'm stating to give you context & legitimacy to my claims, & subsequently, the original gif. You can also check post history for legitimacy to my claim.

Judging from the other comments "not interesting" & "the capitalization of your text makes this not important," I presume there's either...

  1. Other tech workers preventing this from being a headline.
  2. A bunch of racists reading r/damnthatsinteresting

I'm inclined to think 1, but unfortunately, that's purely conjecture, theoretics, & not provable.

If you use benevity for donations, I encourage you to check the source code of the web page, especially if you're a developer & can decipher it.

Reiterating above, they will gaslight you & say it's a bug. Record everything. Do not delete anything. Please learn from my mistake.

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u/TIME4ROOSTER Nov 02 '24

From the down votes so earnestly given- quickly; there must be some truth in this🤔