Thread by @polotek

More white guys in tech deciding that their company and their money is gonna be separate from what’s happening in the world. - Changes at Basecamp world.hey.com/jason/changes-…

Here’s Fried 10 days ago saying the part he “dislikes” about his job is “trying to please everybody”. The writing was on the wall there I suppose.

https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1383184749204672513

This is literally what’s happening with a lot of white men.

https://twitter.com/maks_p/status/1386750605516017666

I’m thinking a lot about how people ask “what would you have done during the Civil Rights Movement?” So many white guys are learning about themselves and finding that they are lacking. It must be tough.

You don’t. That’s kind of the point.

https://twitter.com/al3xestrada/status/1386751878738841600

This is important. But I would couch a bit differently. When it was just white guys talking to other white guys, it’s not that they all agreed about everything. But there was nothing they cared about enough to jeopardize money over. Besides keeping out The Other of course.

https://twitter.com/msoareses/status/1386759141742481410

That’s why I call out folks like this guy. He really wants to believe he’s a good person. But all he’s saying is “none of this stuff matters enough to me to stop the money”. A lot of white guys are having that moment of honesty with themselves.

https://twitter.com/joshlewis/status/1386751809491030022

This is what I said about Coinbase’s CEO the other day. People want him to care and he just doesn’t. I imagine someone like Fried really wants to believe he cares. But he woke up one day and realized even he doesn’t care enough to stop the money.

https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1382721208832036869

I want to highlight a particular sentence from Fried’s post. It’s from the section about banning political discussion.

“You shouldn't have to wonder if staying out of it means you're complicit, or wading into it means you're a target.”

For the record, yes you absolutely should.

This is a statement about privilege. It’s one if the key privileges that Whiteness has always afforded itself. The right to comfort. The right to take hard things and separate yourself from them. The right to not care about things that don’t directly impact you.

“Entitled to all the benefits of society without being a part of it.”

Whew. That part.

https://twitter.com/robmclarty/status/1386766648296812549