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> I know it’s frustrating and distracting. Let’s keep focused on building an amazing company together. One would hope an amazing company that doesn't cover it'
by demarq 6y ago
> I know it’s frustrating and distracting. Let’s keep focused on building an amazing company together.
One would hope an amazing company that doesn't cover it's ass when it turns out the executive couldn't give a hoot about the treatment of black people and now everyone knows
- briane80 6y agoYeah you better kneel whitey or you're definitely a racist.
- NelsonMinar 6y agoCongratulations on posting the first openly inflammatory racist language.
- briane80 6y agoDon't be silly, you can't be racist to white people.
- dang 6y agoRegardless of where one is on the underlying issue, flamebait like this is beyond the pale. You've been posting a lot of it—please stop. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
- polartx 6y agoOne could argue that it would be unethical to use your investors’ money as a political (or even idealogical) bullhorn. Notwithstanding, such a position places zero restrictions on doing the same with your own money..but corporations make for more interesting headlines than the individuals that run them.
- mempko 6y agoThe fact that there are investors in the first place is completely because of politics. Other politics might have different ownership models.
- jasonhansel 6y agoI think it's pretty clear that one's moral duty to oppose racism far outweighs one's fiduciary duty to investors.
- roenxi 6y agoEveryone at Coinbase opposes racism. They just disagree with noisy activists about how.
- jasonhansel 6y ago> Everyone at Coinbase opposes racism. That is clearly false, given the evidence collected by the Times, which shows an extensive pattern of racist conduct.
- 0xy 6y agoDo you think 11 instances in a company of 1,394 employees shows an "extensive pattern"? We also don't know how many of those were even accurate or corroborated.
- joshuamorton 6y agoWhen it's 50% of the black employees, yeah. When discussing issues in crosstabs, you can't use the overall number as the denominator. That's bad statistics.
- 0xy 6y agoWhy are black employees the only PoCs that matter? Are you suggesting 100% of the non-black employees aren't marginalized? To get a complete view, surely you need data from Asians, Indians and other minorities.