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by cucumber3732842 3 hours ago
>and a racial politics one

We had one of those. Not slack, self hosted internal stuff. Some "senior by tenure but not title" people decided the only thing that could come of it was people running their mouths to everyone's detriment and start trolling it until nobody took it seriously and then it was quietly "collateral damage" in a migration that was also arranged.

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HR ended up nuking that channel in 2023.

I think they were afraid of touching what had started as an anti racism channel until the vibes had shifted a bit.

There were both Palestinian employees and an IDF veteran Israeli employee who were seemingly spending half the workday discussing October 7th and the Intifada.