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

Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by hellomyguys on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:49PM (#26999817)

>Moreover, how can a "list of best names ever" be so troubling, let alone racist?

Well I imagine the list had a lot of people from certain ethnicities...

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by nailer on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:07PM (#27000029)

It didn’t. See DHHs blog post for numbers.

> Out of the 78 names listed on the last version we were able to recover, just 6 names appear to be Asian.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by shard on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:42PM (#27000431)

Really? DHH mentioned the vast majority of names were Nordic or English. Isn't that racist against the Nordic and English people?

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by nailer on Saturday May 01, 2021 @08:43AM (#27005828)

Most people don’t consider discrimination inside European / Asian / African groups as racism - rather, discrimination between those groups.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by shard on Monday May 03, 2021 @12:03AM (#27021505)

I don't think the posts specified the ethnicities of the people who made the lists. Are you sure it is intra-group and not inter-group?

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by nailer on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:34AM (#27035985)

It's likely Basecamp demographics match the US, where Europeans are the majority ethnicity.

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