Long story short, executives bent over backwards to protect a senior leader with a history of sharing content from the functionally white supremacist outlet Breitbart, and then employees got mad when he tried to gaslight them publicly. https://t.co/vjccaiTpd7

— Emily G (not a newspaper) (@EmilyGorcenski) May 4, 2021

Madness... This reads like the minutes of a meeting from a Bolshevik sausage factory in 1922. https://t.co/ahbepS5Dmx

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) May 4, 2021

Oh boy.
“I don’t believe in a lot of the framing around implicit bias. I think a lot of this is actually racist.” https://t.co/eFxohKO5cT

— Mike Monteiro? (@monteiro) May 4, 2021

I used to respect Basecamp, but really disappointed that their leadership kept a list of Asian customer names that sounded funny to them. https://t.co/I5hxzL6BIY

— Josh Ong (@beijingdou) May 4, 2021

'The employee called for the founders to denounce white supremacy. “That would be the bare minimum for me,” they said.

“I’m not here to share my personal views on anything,” Fried said...Hansson remained on mute.' @caseynewton https://t.co/zr1M5wTbDh @basecamp

— Cindy Gallop (@cindygallop) May 4, 2021

A must read, especially if you haven't unfollowed @rjs yethttps://t.co/nfxItkv6Od

— Karen McGrane (@karenmcgrane) May 4, 2021

holy shit https://t.co/7I5ZzCotOR

— Amy Hoy (@amyhoy) May 4, 2021

Now we know why so many Basecamp employees have decided to quit following the all-hands. https://t.co/7QaXXgKuoK

— ella dawson (@brosandprose) May 4, 2021

Reading the details of the Basecamp meeting that went down on Friday and I don't know why I'm surprised, but what a train wreck!
If you are a leader and wonder how to avoid making the same mistakes, checkout @projectinclude https://t.co/1wI95hHhIx

— Matt Aimonetti (@mattetti) May 4, 2021

Funny how the loudest person in the room is suddenly silent on one of the most important calls in the history of his company.https://t.co/TWphk3Amvq

— Kelly Vaughn ? (@kvlly) May 4, 2021

“The Black employee responded: “You said, ‘white supremacy doesn’t exist.’ That’s a factual lie. It’s not true.”

I teared up reading that part b/c I know what it’s like to be one of the few Black ppl in a corporate room & have to defend minorities.https://t.co/xnjQ3UCNSb

— Taylor Poindexter (@engineering_bae) May 4, 2021

The blow by blow of how Basecamp’s all-hands meeting fell apart makes the argument for why discussing politics at work is unworkable.

A white conservative says white supremacy doesn’t exist, a Black employee gets upset and management asked to take sides.https://t.co/xNGATjf2XP

— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) May 4, 2021

This @Basecamp thing seems shocking but it’s also kinda every organization: just sit there and do your work, don’t give feedback, don’t ask questions, and if you need an opinion on something, we’ll give it to you. https://t.co/vK0tF6H0OU

— Jules Joy {She•Her} (@JuliaAngelenPR) May 4, 2021

The incredible mediocrity of taking one of the most pivotal meetings of your career from your fucking bed

No one should ever listen to a word of advice from these guys ever. again.https://t.co/sUToLtnmcV pic.twitter.com/pU8Dwkht3r

— Frisco Uplink of House Pfizer (@_danilo) May 4, 2021

Lol why are so many highly paid, highly educated workers embracing this buffoonish circular firing squad behavior? Defamation culture extends well beyond the media https://t.co/fE7eVKM3ME

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) May 4, 2021

“If they don't think it's an issue, it's not an issue. If they don't experience it, then it's not real.”

This is of the more basic facts about how most tech and media companies are run, and it will not change while the people currently in power remain. https://t.co/BQ2fBbgy9M

— stacy-marie ishmael (@s_m_i) May 4, 2021

More ⁦@CaseyNewton⁩ reporting from inside Basecamp, which, among many other things, seems like all the evidence you’d ever need to forbid policy change by public blog post https://t.co/bvcKsW5JOS

— nilay patel (@reckless) May 4, 2021

It’s still wild to me that this happened. Like just such an unnecessary and disrespectful way to belittle your employees at a small company. https://t.co/LaLuJDumh7 pic.twitter.com/Qw4xV4LlU1

— Adi Robertson (@thedextriarchy) May 4, 2021

This is a stunning piece.

The jerk bringing political tension to Basecamp is a conservative senior employee who endlessly posts Brietbart in workchat.

He had the audacity to repeatedly tell a black employee white supremacy didn’t exist. And leadership did nothing. https://t.co/s21fOiyLyl

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) May 4, 2021

The similarities between Coinbase and Basecamp are fairly superficial, I think.

Coinbase: A sincere, principled commitment to a specific work culture.

Basecamp: A panicked attempt to not die by the sword by which they’ve been living. https://t.co/0fldvn0LOo

— Matt Bateman (@mbateman) May 4, 2021

"White supremacy" seems a bit like "Defund the police" in being a real town and castle term. A widely accepted meaning that, in the context used, is totally crazy, plus an obscure and made-up meaning that seems fairly reasonable.

https://t.co/nzxx32cGQ2 pic.twitter.com/gVd4Y3ynio

— Sam Bowman (@s8mb) May 4, 2021

Big new details broken by @CaseyNewton https://t.co/DbZj0d8o1g

— Mike Rundle (@flyosity) May 4, 2021

베이스캠프에서 만든 서비스 쓰기전에, 출판한 책을 읽기전에 이 글 부터 읽어야 될 것 같군요

Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting - The Verge https://t.co/VG1TmjxrTO

— lunamoth (@lunamoth) May 4, 2021

I didn’t realize that Basecamp announced its various new corporate policies publicly before telling the staff about them. https://t.co/dtBEuDuTNv pic.twitter.com/sEZUehW1x8

— Harry McCracken (@harrymccracken) May 4, 2021