Nik Pash, the AI head of Cline, drew massive flak after he made an unsavory comment on a photo of apparently Indian coders. But his company head came to his rescue and explained that social media users took his comment out of context and that there was nothing racist about what Nick wrote. But the social media fire was far from being doused as nothing but an apology was expected from them for the comment. The photo at the center of this controversy was of a hackathon of @xai. The room was packed with coders working to win the hackathon. "Imagine the smell," Pash replied. The comment was interpreted in a racist way as people expressed their shock at such a brazen attack on coders of Indian origin, calling them smelly. But Nik's boss swooped in and said he, as being a person of South Asi
US techie comes under fire for anti-Indian 'imagine the smell' comment; his boss says it's OK
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