“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by browningstreet on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:30PM (#26999621)

But taking the conversation there -- that politics is about racism -- is exactly the kind of extremism we struggle with these days. For the most part, we should be able to co-exist across the political spectrum, but equating politics to something extreme, or having to bring up a false equivalency in conversation, keeps things heated.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by deanCommie on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:38PM (#26999703)

Politics isn't about racism.

Politics isn't ONLY about racism.

Politics isn't ONLY about NOT racism.

If you ban politics, you also ban politics about racism.

But if politics was about whether the city should spend a budget surplus on a sidewalk upgrade or a new park bench, then nobody would even think about banning those discussions.

So when you ban politics, you ban politics about racism. Because those are the controversial ones.

And less abstractly, more concretely, about the basecamp situation, the politics that led to this ban were explicitly politics about racism.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by wl on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:02PM (#26999967)

Gun control. Abortion. Climate change. Drugs. The death penalty.

Racism isn't the only controversial political topic out there.

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