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Casey Newton of “The Verge” publishes the details<\/a> of the Zoom meeting where the woke employees have a meltdown when a somewhat conservative manager disputes their definition of white supremacy.\u00a0 It’s hilarious and maddening at the same time.\u00a0 The only sad point is that the conservative manager also resigned from Basecamp.\u00a0 I take that as a definite negative for the whole thing.\u00a0 If he had stayed it would have been the cherry on the float.<\/p>\n

Well, just read the thing.\u00a0 Understand that Newton is extremely sympathetic to the wokesters and so take that into account with respect to any statements of opinion on motives or judgement.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the summation at the end.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut as much as the conversation about Basecamp\u2019s moves has been framed as \u201cpolitics,\u201d it seems important to remember that the entire affair began when a third of the company \u2014 not all of whom are among the 20 who have departed so far, by the way \u2014 volunteered to help the company become more diverse and equitable. It was only when their committee dug a skeleton out of the company closet \u2014 that list of names \u2014 that Fried and Hansson moved to shut the whole thing down.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was actually a positive thing we were doing,\u201d one employee told me, marveling at the chaos that had followed. \u201cWe had identified the problem, how it happened, and vowed not to do it again. It was a company doing exactly what it should do. The founders refused to lead, and so the company was doing it itself.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another employee said they had been thrown by the fact that the founders, after years of telling employees that they were part of an elite chosen few who were good enough to work at Basecamp, would get rid of them so easily.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey just want to build cool shit all day,\u201d the employee said. \u201cThey don\u2019t want to deal with people, which is something you have to do as a manager \u2026 Jason and David just threw us away.\u201d\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was saddened to read that not all of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council has resigned.\u00a0 That, I see, as the real tragedy.\u00a0 But hopefully the owners are wiser for their sad experience and will stamp out any sparks of wokeism if the appear again.<\/p>\n

I think the lesson for the rest of us is that even non-conservatives recognize that a woke presence in a business is poison and unless you suppress its activities it will destroy your company right before your eyes.<\/p>\n

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