Re:Why we’re dropping Basecamp
by Dylan16807 on Friday December 01, 2023 @07:29PM
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> I repeat: the funny name list was specifically non-Anglo.
Hmm, when I google and click the most relevant result off the top couple, it says: "Many of the names were of American or European origin. But others were Asian, or African"
Let me keep searching... https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e#:~:text=In...
Are you sure you're right about the name list? I'll believe a better source if you have one...
> If people are persistently making fun of your name at work you’ve now got to decide if you fight it with HR or find another job. That’s called a hostile work environment.
These weren't worker names.
If your argument is that the non-Anglo nature of the “funny names” isn’t a form of xenophobia or ethnic discrimination, you lost me.
I’ve got certain Thanksgiving table members who have made fun of people named Patel for being named Patel and being Indian. That’s racist. That’s bigoted. Nobody at Basecamp was getting on the funny name list for having the last name Johnson (and that name even has a phallic connotation!)
I repeat: the funny name list was specifically non-Anglo.
I was bullied for my name as a kid. It wasn't a very common name and it and it was easily turned into a less than pleasant English word.
I would hate to think that middle school children never grow up and continue to be dickwads as founders of a sophisticated technology platform. Grow. The. Fuck. Up.
The workplace isn’t Family Feud. If people are persistently making fun of your name at work you’ve now got to decide if you fight it with HR or find another job. That’s called a hostile work environment. Family Feud is a semi-scripted TV game show where all the jokes and situations are pre-planned and edited for entertainment. If we are supposed to derive our workplace manners from television then your conclusion has to be that everything you see on Game of Thrones or The Handmaid’s Tale is work appropriate.
And again regarding the Python sketch, if your argument for acceptability in the workplace is a comedy troupe from 50 years ago, you’re gonna have a bad time. Why don’t you write an email to your CEO with the subject line “Biggus Dickus?” Right now. Like you said: it’s hilarious. I’ll make their day and get you a promotion. Let me know how that goes.
Wikipedia isn’t a Duke vendor, and the Wikipedia article for the George Floyd protests makes it very clear that most of the protests were peaceful. We don’t call hockey games “fights on ice” nor do we call American football “kickoff and extra point contest” because most of the game isn’t those things. That’s why calling broadly calling the George Floyd protests “riots” is disingenuous.
Did Fox News ever call the January 6th Capitol attack a riot?