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Posting a link to Coinbase's peremptory rebuttal seems apropos. https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012afc25d27 https://blog.coinbase.com/

Posting a link to Coinbase's peremptory rebuttal seems apropos. https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012afc25d27 https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012...

jonsno56 6y ago
> In general, we should expect more, not less, media coverage (both positive and negative) as we grow. I’m sorry you’ll have to deal with these types of questions and comments again — I know it’s frustrating and distracting. Let’s keep focused on building an amazing company together. Acknowledges that bigger companies deserve more scrutiny. Then proceeds to be immature by implying that said scrutiny is merely frustrating and not worthy of any further internal dialogue. Also, why isn’t this letter signed? It doesn’t exactly read like a corporate memo as it’s rather opinionated and sounds like one person wrote it. Is the CEO too chicken shit to put his name here?
frewsxcv 6y ago
"rebuttal" is giving them way too much credit
sonotathrowaway 6y ago
> As Brian shared with the ColorBlock ERG this morning, we don’t care what The New York Times thinks. The most important thing we care about is you, our employees, and what you think. (As long as you’re of the correct skin tone and political ideology)
- NelsonMinar 6y ago
  and as long as you don't have any political thoughts. don't want those.
  - 2-tpg 6y ago
    You can have political thoughts. But these employees demanded in tears that upper management break their silence on an on-going case (which they decided was due to skin color, racism, and police violence/murder, when these interpretations are far from clear). So what about the "political" thoughts, that said that Floyd was a career criminal unworthy of sainthood or role modeling, dying from a self-inflicted fentanyl overdose, and resisting arrest (where the other people in the car somehow received fair treatment, despite their skin color). It was gross to hear company's talk of police murder and police racism, and their devastation of the passing of someone they don't know, and wouldn't have known if they were Latin or Asian or Indian or basically any other minority.
    - sfkdjf9j3j 6y ago
      As the article says in the second paragraph, the employees that they spoke to left in 2018 and 2019, so this response is irrelevant. I personally find it reprehensible and deliberately lacking context as well but you are entitled to your opinion.
      - 2-tpg 6y ago
        The blog post about leaving politics at the door was in response to the death of Floyd and some employees upset about their perceived "silence" of upper management, where more woke companies did speak up. So it's relevant and provides context to that policy of focusing on company mission, instead of making statements about racial inequality, police brutality, and unfair societies. You are entitled to political thoughts. If you can handle it, you are even allowed to share them with colleagues. But don't get upset if others have different political thoughts. And certainly not get upset enough to accuse them of racism.
        i-write-comment 6y ago
        It's very odd how people who openly express deeply-racist sentiments (as your previous comment repeating lies about George Floyd does) get so offended when accused of being racist.
        2-tpg 6y ago
        What lies? > Floyd was a career criminal unworthy of sainthood or role modeling. Floyd was arrested for a home invasion, where a 1-year-old baby was present, and he threatened a woman to tell her where the money and drugs was hidden, by pressing a gun to her stomach. After that he was arrested and processed 8 times for crimes related to drugs and theft. The day of his arrest he tried to pay with a counterfeit bill. After his death, Floyd was witlessly treated as some martyr, killed at the hands of racist violent police, and portrayed as a role model for all black people and the struggles they go through, just trying to turn his life around. > dying from a self-inflicted fentanyl overdose Handwritten notes of a law enforcement interview with Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, say Floyd had 11 ng/mL of fentanyl in his system. "If he were found dead at home alone and no other apparent causes, this could be acceptable to call an OD. Deaths have been certified with levels of 3," Baker told investigators. > and resisting arrest https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/4/george-floyd-resisting-officers-leaked-police-body/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/4/george-floyd... Offended that you brand me with racism for telling you an unpleasant truthful interpretation? No, I think me and my wife can live with that. But a little scared, yes. You can accuse me and others of deeply-racist sentiment, and that accusation seems enough to financially and socially damage me. At least give me a "fair" trial: Show me where I lied. Or these racist accusations hold as much water as those in the Coinbase article, and are exposed for the bloody clubs they really are.

Posting a link to Coinbase's peremptory rebuttal seems apropos. https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012afc25d27 https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012...

jonsno56 6y ago

> In general, we should expect more, not less, media coverage (both positive and negative) as we grow. I’m sorry you’ll have to deal with these types of questions and comments again — I know it’s frustrating and distracting. Let’s keep focused on building an amazing company together. Acknowledges that bigger companies deserve more scrutiny. Then proceeds to be immature by implying that said scrutiny is merely frustrating and not worthy of any further internal dialogue. Also, why isn’t this letter signed? It doesn’t exactly read like a corporate memo as it’s rather opinionated and sounds like one person wrote it. Is the CEO too chicken shit to put his name here?

frewsxcv 6y ago

"rebuttal" is giving them way too much credit

sonotathrowaway 6y ago

> As Brian shared with the ColorBlock ERG this morning, we don’t care what The New York Times thinks. The most important thing we care about is you, our employees, and what you think. (As long as you’re of the correct skin tone and political ideology)

NelsonMinar 6y ago
and as long as you don't have any political thoughts. don't want those.
- 2-tpg 6y ago
  You can have political thoughts. But these employees demanded in tears that upper management break their silence on an on-going case (which they decided was due to skin color, racism, and police violence/murder, when these interpretations are far from clear). So what about the "political" thoughts, that said that Floyd was a career criminal unworthy of sainthood or role modeling, dying from a self-inflicted fentanyl overdose, and resisting arrest (where the other people in the car somehow received fair treatment, despite their skin color). It was gross to hear company's talk of police murder and police racism, and their devastation of the passing of someone they don't know, and wouldn't have known if they were Latin or Asian or Indian or basically any other minority.
  - sfkdjf9j3j 6y ago
    As the article says in the second paragraph, the employees that they spoke to left in 2018 and 2019, so this response is irrelevant. I personally find it reprehensible and deliberately lacking context as well but you are entitled to your opinion.
    - 2-tpg 6y ago
      The blog post about leaving politics at the door was in response to the death of Floyd and some employees upset about their perceived "silence" of upper management, where more woke companies did speak up. So it's relevant and provides context to that policy of focusing on company mission, instead of making statements about racial inequality, police brutality, and unfair societies. You are entitled to political thoughts. If you can handle it, you are even allowed to share them with colleagues. But don't get upset if others have different political thoughts. And certainly not get upset enough to accuse them of racism.
      - i-write-comment 6y ago
        It's very odd how people who openly express deeply-racist sentiments (as your previous comment repeating lies about George Floyd does) get so offended when accused of being racist.
        2-tpg 6y ago
        What lies? > Floyd was a career criminal unworthy of sainthood or role modeling. Floyd was arrested for a home invasion, where a 1-year-old baby was present, and he threatened a woman to tell her where the money and drugs was hidden, by pressing a gun to her stomach. After that he was arrested and processed 8 times for crimes related to drugs and theft. The day of his arrest he tried to pay with a counterfeit bill. After his death, Floyd was witlessly treated as some martyr, killed at the hands of racist violent police, and portrayed as a role model for all black people and the struggles they go through, just trying to turn his life around. > dying from a self-inflicted fentanyl overdose Handwritten notes of a law enforcement interview with Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, say Floyd had 11 ng/mL of fentanyl in his system. "If he were found dead at home alone and no other apparent causes, this could be acceptable to call an OD. Deaths have been certified with levels of 3," Baker told investigators. > and resisting arrest https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/4/george-floyd-resisting-officers-leaked-police-body/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/4/george-floyd... Offended that you brand me with racism for telling you an unpleasant truthful interpretation? No, I think me and my wife can live with that. But a little scared, yes. You can accuse me and others of deeply-racist sentiment, and that accusation seems enough to financially and socially damage me. At least give me a "fair" trial: Show me where I lied. Or these racist accusations hold as much water as those in the Coinbase article, and are exposed for the bloody clubs they really are.