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Re:How Basecamp Blew Up by ashtonkem on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:34PM (#27044629)
> I think that, no matter your political views, if a situation gets out of hand that bad over matters that aren't even really directly related to workplace concerns, something must have gone fundamentally wrong much earlier.

Remember, the proximate cause here was something that directly related to what happened at work.

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Re:How Basecamp Blew Up by moduspol on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:50PM (#27044756)
No, it was just claimed to be.

It's not the case that forming a committee that's over 1/3 the size of the company to do unprompted evaluation of vendor relationships for DE&I and approval of guest speakers follows logically from, "there used to be a list of funny sounding names and management didn't handle it well."

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Re:How Basecamp Blew Up by jiofih on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:01PM (#27045306)
Source?
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Re:How Basecamp Blew Up by moduspol on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:36PM (#27045537)
For which claim?
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Re:How Basecamp Blew Up by duxup on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:38PM (#27045898)
The funny names list?

Yeah that seems to have been the trigger but I'm not sure that such a list should lead to everything described in the article.

How that lead to demanding someone denounce white supremacy at a meeting seems like things have long since disconnected from the funny names list.

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Re:How Basecamp Blew Up by ashtonkem on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:45AM (#27046618)
It turns out if you mismanage a problem, it gets worse.
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