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Re:Basecamp Founders Are Right – Its Ok to Focus on What You... by davidgerard on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:15PM (#26960179)
Why did Basecamp management say "no politics at work"? Well, coincidentally, a full one-third of Basecamp employees wanted to join the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion council. DEI appears to be precisely the politics DHH and Jason don't want Basecamp to think about.

Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Rahsfan/status/1387042197321633792

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Re:Basecamp Founders Are Right – Its Ok to Focus on What You... by EricE on Sunday May 02, 2021 @02:42PM (#27017706)
And what is wrong with that? What the hell does DEI have to do with being competitive?

What you do brings value to a company. Not some immutable aspect of your being (race, color, sexual preference, etc.).

It's amazing to watch people who are supposedly anti-racist working feverishly to enact policies far more restrictive than Jim Crow laws ever were.

Anyone who tries to talk about anything other than merit is a charlatan. Hell Martin Luther King would be excoriated from Twitter for declaring that he dare dream that people be judged by they character and not their skin color.

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