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No. Your attempt to project hyperbole into what I 'feel' is not rhetoric. If it's a small group of heretofore unknown people with a major stake in a new, exoti

by jariel 6y ago

No. Your attempt to project hyperbole into what I 'feel' is not rhetoric. If it's a small group of heretofore unknown people with a major stake in a new, exotic and opaque, 1 Trillion dollar asset pool, then describing them as 'all men' is perfectly reasonable if they are. Just as if they were all American. It's relevant because they are obvious characteristics of the group and not a random outcome. If there was some women in the group then it wouldn't have been notable. This is not SJW journalism it's just journalism.

imbnwa 6y ago
Oh how the turn tables
ALittleLight 6y ago
It seems to me that if a fact is informative then the opposite of that fact would be too. For example, the article says that verified users jumped 34%. That fact tells us coinbase is growing and at what pace. If the opposite were true, and users were declining, that would tell us coinbase and maybe bitcoin were in trouble. I don't see what the most common gender among the leadership team tells us. What does it matter if they are mostly, partly, or entirely men or women? This article is written in Bloomberg, the four founders of Bloomberg plus their chairmen are all men[1] - does that matter? If I were to put on my "just journalism" hat, maybe I'd think it says something when organizations led entirely by men criticize organizations partly led by women for their social justice bona fides... Or, maybe I'd think that most executives are men, most people in tech are men, most people in crypto are men, so it's really not that surprising or informative that most of coinbase's leadership are men. Or, maybe it does matter for some reason, but the journalist should explain that reason rather than just drop the fact and imply it means something without explanation. 1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P.

by jariel 6y ago

imbnwa 6y ago

Oh how the turn tables

ALittleLight 6y ago

It seems to me that if a fact is informative then the opposite of that fact would be too. For example, the article says that verified users jumped 34%. That fact tells us coinbase is growing and at what pace. If the opposite were true, and users were declining, that would tell us coinbase and maybe bitcoin were in trouble. I don't see what the most common gender among the leadership team tells us. What does it matter if they are mostly, partly, or entirely men or women? This article is written in Bloomberg, the four founders of Bloomberg plus their chairmen are all men[1] - does that matter? If I were to put on my "just journalism" hat, maybe I'd think it says something when organizations led entirely by men criticize organizations partly led by women for their social justice bona fides... Or, maybe I'd think that most executives are men, most people in tech are men, most people in crypto are men, so it's really not that surprising or informative that most of coinbase's leadership are men. Or, maybe it does matter for some reason, but the journalist should explain that reason rather than just drop the fact and imply it means something without explanation. 1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P.