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‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase

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This is in the wake of Coinbase decision to be a "mission focused company" and prevent their employees from speaking out about political issues at the workplace. It shows the dangers of being apolitical when saying "Blank employees should feel safe and welcome at their job" is apparently still a political statement.

It seems “corporations are people too” but employees aren’t

Re: ‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase

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post #5

This is in the wake of Coinbase decision to be a "mission focused company" and prevent their employees from speaking out about political issues at the workplace. It shows the dangers of being apolitical when saying "Blank employees should feel safe and welcome at their job" is apparently still a political statement.

>Blank employees should feel safe and welcome at their job

If only that's what it was about and not one group trying to force woke politics into the workplace.

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> One Black employee said her manager suggested in front of colleagues that she was dealing drugs and carrying a gun, trading on racist stereotypes. Another said a co-worker at a recruiting meeting broadly described Black employees as less capable. Still another said managers spoke down to her and her Black colleagues, adding that they were passed over for promotions in favor of less experienced white employees. The…

I know it's almost unbelievable! But it's in the nytimes so definitely happened.

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> One Black employee said her manager suggested in front of colleagues that she was dealing drugs and carrying a gun, trading on racist stereotypes. Another said a co-worker at a recruiting meeting broadly described Black employees as less capable. Still another said managers spoke down to her and her Black colleagues, adding that they were passed over for promotions in favor of less experienced white employees. The…

I know it's almost unbelievable! But it's in the nytimes so definitely happened.

You're right, just another set of race-obsessed liars victimized by the Lyin' New York Times repeating their fake accusations!

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> Still another said managers spoke down to her and her Black colleagues, adding that they were passed over for promotions in favor of less experienced white employees

I hate this kind of sloppy writing. who added that, the colleague or the manager?

EDIT: Downvoted. I guess clarity in the NYT isn't allowed to be questioned..

Re: ‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase

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This piece paints coinbase as a company with racist tendencies and a hostile place to work for black people. Based on the evidence or lack there of provided the article and after reading coinbase's rebuttal, I must say this NYT piece feels like an attempt to bully coinbase/armstrong into reverting its/his stance on engagement in issues unrelated to coinbase core mission and into submission to the cause.

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Posting a link to Coinbase's peremptory rebuttal seems apropos. https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012...

> As Brian shared with the ColorBlock ERG this morning, we don’t care what The New York Times thinks. The most important thing we care about is you, our employees, and what you think.

(As long as you’re of the correct skin tone and political ideology)

Re: ‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase

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11 of then ~20 Black employees by early 2019* had complained to HR about racism. That's over half! And that's only the people with the fortitude or optimism to talk to HR (HR is notoriously useless at many companies). That's a complete disaster. 15 of that 20 quit! Why wasn't that treated as an emergency?

*At the end the article says at the end of 2019 there's 31 Black employees of 1000. At the beginning of the article about the beginning of 2019 it's about 20 of 600 before 15 Black employees quit.

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