Yeh, I think it makes sense to understand this on a personal level. It’s important to comprehend where this important minority of people are coming from.
But the question for any organization/group is whether it’s essential to buy into these perspectives. Most centrist, right wing and many left wing people in the US don’t buy into this. Most minorities in the US don’t buy into it and most people outside the US don’t buy into it.
Where it gets a bit tricky is the folks who hold those views often think it’s essential that other people buy into them which messes with an organizations ability to support viewpoint diversity.
So, I sympathize with anyone trying to navigate this problem and am not surprised it can get a bit messy and as messes go, people leaving Basecamp out of choice with a decent severance is pretty humane. And certainly not heinous enough to warrant a change of governance in itself.
Totally agree.