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This is not a flame war, rather an analysis of what happened. Is that not possible? We really at the point that trying to discuss this objectively is seen as a
by gustavo-fring 5y ago
This is not a flame war, rather an analysis of what happened. Is that not possible? We really at the point that trying to discuss this objectively is seen as a threat of "war"?
Who is Singer?
Is this thread not an example of the misunderstanding we are talking about? You think I'm acting in bad faith, but really I just want to talk about this, because we don't solve it unless we try.
- jolux 5y agoRyan Singer is the higher-up mentioned who said in the middle of an all-hands that trying to fix Basecamp’s racial insensitivity problem would end up targeting him as a white man.
- gustavo-fring 5y agoYes and the discussion is about how we do conflate the two, sometimes correctly and sometimes incorrectly.
- jolux 5y agoThe discussion is about how a company should handle a situation where one employee is making a significant number of others feel unwelcome because of the color of their skin or their commitment to anti-racism. Party politics only factors into it if you think people make decisions about who to associate with primarily by extrapolating voting habits from others’ behavior instead of assessing the behavior itself.
- gustavo-fring 5y agoI get what you are saying. What led to my jumping off to that topic is the original post gets into the usual "politics is everywhere" meme (paraphrasing). If this is the case then the discussion about parties is more than a littel relevant. I'm trying to get across where the pushback comes from on seemingly obvious issues like racism.