African tech workers push back on U.S. startup built to help them

Re:African tech workers push back on U.S. startup built to h... by franctic on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:22PM (#23787834)

I think this is a pretty unfair reading of the situation. The grievance came directly from the people working for the company. You can certainly dig in to the situation and have an opinion about whether those grievances are valid, but I don’t see how that can be seen as a case of people “biasing towards their own set of experiences and points of view.” Who else’s point of view should they be considering?

Also we definitely live in a global, interconnected world but it feels like a hell of a stretch to invoke BLM here. African workers sharing their feelings about their place of work are just “riding the wave” because they happen to black?

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Re:African tech workers push back on U.S. startup built to h... by realtalk_sp on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:26PM (#23787849)

> Yet its strategy misfires and communication blunders have left its African developers in a lurch, underscoring how difficult blending capitalism and social good can be. Stung by the experience, some developers informally refer to the company as “The Plantation.”

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