GitHub offers to re-hire staff member it fired for calling Capitol attackers Nazis

The Microsoft-owned software hub GitHub has offered a Jewish employee who compared the Capitol Hill rioters to Nazis their job back, after initially firing them for the offense.

The employee had used an internal Slack chat room to tell collagues in the Washington DC area to “stay safe homies, Nazis are about,” Business Insider first reported.

A co-worker criticised the employee for their language, leading to a debate about the use of the term. The same day, GitHub’s human resources department reprimanded the employee, who had their position terminated two days later.

"I did not know that, as a Jew, it would be so polarizing to say this word," the former employee reportedly wrote in a Slack group.