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According to the alt right trolls and many tech bros, the people who left Basecamp were woke snowflakes who put politics above work But the guy who kept bringing politics at Basecamp was… a conservative lol Also a snowflake who put politics above work then? @CaseyNewton/1389369715638767619
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The Basecamp debacle is really the conjonction of years of bad leadership publicly posturing as visionary, the fact that even small acts of racism are not accepted anymore, and the inability of powerful white men to address white supremacy even if they have good intentions
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Fried saying "thank you" to the conservative guy after he claimed white supremacy doesn’t exist is beyond me
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I’m also quite convinced that the discrepancy between DHH/Fried’s books and how they behave internally was a major source of discontent It’s one thing to be a bad manager, but it’s even worse to be a bad manager in private and to posture as a visionary one in public
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This new policy was obviously massively rejected by Basecamp’s employees, and for good reasons, but a lot of what happened next was the results of things that were brewing for years