“What Did You Do?”
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“What Did You Do?”
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#2"I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate"
Board positions are paid well, and racial discrimination in hiring is against the law. Ohanian should not be encouraging it.
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#3Too little, too late. Reddit had a chance to ban T_D and other hateful subreddits many years ago and didn't.
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#4He is worth 10s (hundreds?) of millions of dollars. This costs him nothing. What he is suggesting reddit do is illegal.
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#5Too little, too late. Reddit had a chance to ban T_D and other hateful subreddits many years ago and didn't.
So T_D quit reddit and went over to theDonald.win not because of reddit's censorship?
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#6> I’m writing this as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: “What did you do?”
The rationalisation here is crazy. Dude with a black wife and a black daughter espouses some sort of moral requirement to quit his board role? There is no sense there. If there is a perspective here that makes sense; it needs elaboration.
It seems more likely he is dropping off the board for a different, unmentioned, reason.
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#7Why is it just a black nothing as the picture?
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#8He is worth 10s (hundreds?) of millions of dollars. This costs him nothing. What he is suggesting reddit do is illegal.
> What he is suggesting reddit do is illegal.
Are board appointments considered hiring? Honest question. I have no idea how the law works here, but I just figured the shareholders could choose whoever they want.
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#9Too little, too late. Reddit had a chance to ban T_D and other hateful subreddits many years ago and didn't.
All major subreddits (r/news, r/politics, r/pics, r/askreddit) are hateful subreddits now. You just happen to agree with their partisan opinion.
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#10> "I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate"
Wait I'm really missing something about the "why?" here.
- He didn't have an idea of how he could orient the organization he had built toward solving problems?
- He didn't have any black leaders within the organization he could think of to elevate who would both have a more keen lived-experience sense of the nature of the problem _and_ know reddit culture enough to apply that understanding?
Maybe not and we don't have the full story here.
But systemic racism isn't some bad-apples good-apples issue any more than the 787-MAX was brought down by a pair of bad pilots. It is not really an issue of replacing people if they are under the same pressures. It's an issue of _systems_.
What systems does this refactor or dismantle?