Basecamp Tells Critical Race Theory Coup Leftists to Shove Off
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There have been a lot of stories of companies and institutions folding to critical race theory takeovers. And very few counterexamples.
We’ve seen the game play out over and over again.
...Basecamp CEO Jason Fried posted his “Changes at Basecamp” post with several key points. Most notably, “1. No more societal and political discussions on our company Basecamp account.”
“Today’s social and political waters are especially choppy. Sensitivities are at 11, and every discussion remotely related to politics, advocacy, or society at large quickly spins away from pleasant. You shouldn’t have to wonder if staying out of it means you’re complicit, or wading into it means you’re a target. These are difficult enough waters to navigate in life, but significantly more so at work. It’s become too much. It’s a major distraction. It saps our energy, and redirects our dialog towards dark places. It’s not healthy, it hasn’t served us well. And we’re done with it on our company Basecamp account where the work happens. People can take the conversations with willing co-workers to Signal, Whatsapp, or even a personal Basecamp account, but it can’t happen where the work happens anymore.”
It’s a smart move that identifies a major vector of the problem which is critical race theory leftists using company forums to organize and radicalize, and then manufacture a conflict.
Fried’s co-founder expanded on that, “This includes everything from sharing political stories in campfire, using message threads to elucidate others on political beliefs that go beyond the topic directly, or performing political advocacy in general.”
Fried’s original post announces an end to committees, that focuses on various diversity bids, assorted workplace matters, and a rejection of the entire stakeholder ethos.
“We make project management, team communication, and email software. We are not a social impact company. Our impact is contained to what we do and how we do it. We write business books, blog a ton, speak regularly, we open source software, we give back an inordinate amount to our industry given our size. And we’re damn proud of it. Our work, plus that kind of giving, should occupy our full attention. We don’t have to solve deep social problems, chime in publicly whenever the world requests our opinion on the major issues of the day, or get behind one movement or another with time or treasure. These are all important topics, but they’re not our topics at work — they’re not what we collectively do here. Employees are free to take up whatever cause they want, support whatever movements they’d like, and speak out on whatever horrible injustices are being perpetrated on this group or that (and, unfortunately, there are far too many to choose from). But that’s their business, not ours. We’re in the business of making software, and a few tangential things that touch that edge. We’re responsible for ourselves. That’s more than enough for us.”
This is common sense. It’s also a rejection of the entire social impact garbage that has taken over much of Corporate America.
It may sound like a small thing to people outside the industry, but it’s a revolutionary statement for any company to make these days, let alone a tech company.
The expected next act of the drama followed with staged resignations, social media outrage, and media outrage. It’ll be a painful process, but likely the only way the company can survive.
“We make project management, team communication, and email software. We are not a social impact company. Our impact is contained to what we do and how we do it. We write business books, blog a ton, speak regularly, we open source software, we give back an inordinate amount to our industry given our size. And we’re damn proud of it. Our work, plus that kind of giving, should occupy our full attention. We don’t have to solve deep social problems, chime in publicly whenever the world requests our opinion on the major issues of the day, or get behind one movement or another with time or treasure. These are all important topics, but they’re not our topics at work — they’re not what we collectively do here. Employees are free to take up whatever cause they want, support whatever movements they’d like, and speak out on whatever horrible injustices are being perpetrated on this group or that (and, unfortunately, there are far too many to choose from). But that’s their business, not ours. We’re in the business of making software, and a few tangential things that touch that edge. We’re responsible for ourselves. That’s more than enough for us.”
What Basecamp has done is excellent and refreshing, and I hope other companies follow this example.
(Coca Cola, are you listening?)
Pro-Al Qaeda group offers to pay its supporters in America to kill police; recommends infiltrating BLM protests to stage lone wolf attacks
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Jaysh Al-Malahim Al-Electroni released the second issue of its magazine Wolves of Manhattan tells supporters to carry out terrorist acts under the cover of protests that are taking place on Western countries such as the U.S. and France.
Meanwhile in the USA:
Navy Celebrates First Ever All Gay Helicopter Crew
https://iotwreport.com/historical-first-ever-all-gay-us-navy-helicopter-crew/
....thought soldiers were celebrated for fighting and protecting our country. If this “crew” is ever in the Middle East they better hope they don’t have to land on Muslim soil.