We ask that you please don't introduce political controversy into unrelated threads, it ruins them for everyone.
Honest question, how is it unrelated? We saw it happen at Mozilla and I think it's part of the underlying divisiveness that plagues our country.
What you said can be true and the parent still not be a good comment for HN. It's off-topic because 1) the guidelines say politics are off-topic, 2) the guidelines ask us not to introduce flamewar topics without anything new to say, and 3) this article is not about that.
What does it have to do with the structure of work and teams?
Does this really occur at Basecamp or is this hearsay?
An org publicly posted it's inner process for the benefit of the industry and was attacked randomly by a political extremist without regard for truth, damage to that org or damage to the core value of this site.
I'm sure I'll be called oppressing purplecpa's free speech just for pointing this out but no, Basecamp is not oppressive.