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by anon7725 5y ago
I’ve witnessed candidates pass interviews yet fail to be advanced for open positions because they were not in the correct demographic - this was put in writing as the explicit cause. Ironically these were not “white guys,” but candidates wh
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No, it’s different in that now the shutdowns are not over issues such as the Vietnam War but rather a professor objecting to to a ‘day without white people’[0], an instructor using a word in Chinese that merely sounds like an unmentionable
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Yes, but this particular flavor is new.
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I think it started with college campus activism 10-20 years ago. If you feel empowered to shut down the dean’s office to oust a professor, you’ll probably think the same techniques can be applied to your workplace. It certainly doesn’t help
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by anon7725 5y ago
> I never realized how sheltered and weak Americans were People are people. I would try to view it through the lens of power dynamics and in-group signaling rather than weakness/strength.
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Shopify CEO email to managers: We are not a family(businessinsider.com)
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What’s wrong with husband?
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by anon7725 5y ago
Marxism is about the politics of the underclass - the revolutionary struggle to achieve a just society by upending the inequities of Capitalism. So the proletarian uprising wrests control of society from the bourgeoisie. Cultural Marxism re
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by anon7725 5y ago
> Could you help me understand why you feel "cultural Marxism" is so, totally, totalizing? It simply means that the ideology won’t stop until it has transformed all of culture. The progress thus far has been academia -> jour
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Marxism is a basis for critical theory. The critical theory that made a species jump from academia to the mainstream has its roots in the ideas of Gramsci and Marcuse, among others. I call it “cultural Marxism” because unlike plain old Marx
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by anon7725 5y ago
> Why should it be divisive, if you're actually going to listen? Why should it be divisive, indeed. “America is not a racist country” was just the position expressed by Sen. Tim Scott in a national prime time address, yet it’s enoug
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by anon7725 5y ago
> It has hints of "reverse racism" and tends to dismiss that racism is an issue...and if it is an issue, racism against white people is the actual and bigger issue. That's closer to the camp of "white supremacist&quot
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by anon7725 5y ago
Exactly - a short, sharp shock of 1 week or so, and then the most disruptive people are gone and you begin to rebuild the culture.
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by anon7725 5y ago
Something tells me that Russia/Crimea and China are not the subjects of months-long, all-consuming bonfire threads within US companies.
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Ultimately it’s just about respecting people. It doesn’t cost you anything to do that.
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by anon7725 5y ago
> Discussing how to handle issues like the "Best Names Ever" list that are internal to your company isn't "politics", it's called running a company. If you read the full context, the list was condemned by ma
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by anon7725 5y ago
Yes. I am very critical of the culture that led to this. But my-oh-my did they shoot themselves in the foot on this one.
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by anon7725 5y ago
> People are being harassed to be explicit about the contents of their character. Cut the maudlin allusion to Dr. King. Your character is revealed by your actions, not by whether your Instagram profile is set to a black square.
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Did you read anything about this? Nobody thought this was a good thing. Jason/DHH apparently addressed it multiple times over the course of months. A group within the company refused to move on, including someone who participated in m
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by anon7725 5y ago
> If 20 employees were on the "social" committee planning a holiday party, would you consider that as "off the rails" The party planning committee would presumably not try to dictate which vendors the company deals wi
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by anon7725 5y ago
> I wonder how it will feel to them to become the darlings of people very opposed to those positions they had been taking, as seen in these threads. I wonder if the owners will become born-again to the right-wing side of the "cultur
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by anon7725 5y ago
> Those leaving: (1) given the IT demand, will get a job elsewhere pronto, (2) will get the money of the buyout, and (3) will get to play the principled martyrs, too. It's a triple win for hypocrisy. It’s, quite ironically, the heig
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by anon7725 5y ago
> They've lost their iOS development team, but kept the employees who think that spending their work hours pulling customer names from their production environment to make fun of them is a good use of their day. So much winning! Per
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“Nonetheless, the DE&I council attracted significant support. More than a third of the company — 20 out of roughly 58 employees — volunteered to help. They began examining Basecamp’s hiring processes, which vendors the company works wit
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> no more committees 1/3 of the company had joined this D&I committee, which apparently felt that it’s scope included everything that the company did. The employees proved that they couldn’t be trusted to self-organize into a co
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by anon7725 5y ago
> they were not political discussions. They were discussions about the list of "funny" customer names. They were not political in the sense of being about politicians or political parties. They were political in that they were
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I agree that a leader should not single individuals out in a public way. That’s wrong. However, if DHH’s verbatim quote of his response is accurate, it sounds like things had gotten out of hand with this company’s culture. If a leader says
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by anon7725 6y ago
I don’t see how you can claim that Stallman "advocate[d] for rape." Please read what he wrote carefully - he says that it’s not clear that Minsky had knowledge of or intent to commit a crime. You can argue that Minsky was associat
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> I'm a strong advocate for free speech. Many of us who have been following these developments are as well. At issue is the attempt to chill speech based upon the identity of the speaker. If more institutions adopted the “Chicago St
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> Publicly state your intention to cancel anyone who cancels you This doesn’t seem to be something that everyone can do. "Cancellation" irradiates someone as a racist or sexist. It’s a power reserved to those who can appear to

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