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I consider myself a very politically informed person. I'm not a politically active person however, largely for the reasons mentioned in the article. I considered myself a liberal by the standards of the time I grew up in. My views on some social issues, particularly 'free speech', are considered a conservative now. I am one of the people the article is concerning who will not publicly voice their political opinions i…
We'll see more companies go the way of Coinbase and Basecamp. Companies sidetracked with politics will bleed the apolitical.
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Had to leave one job already. Bashing white people on company meetings while going on about wonderfully diverse they were. Their disdain in having to hire a white guy was constant. Product was falling apart since they had nothing but juniors of the correct races sexes and orientations.
> Bashing white people on company meetings Isn't that open racism? Or is it ok because it's compensating for historical racism?
You choose your political views about as much as you choose your sexual orientation. There are genetic factors, childhood influences, etc. It's even likely to correlate somewhat with your particular combination of race and location - for example, an ethnic Swede might see a strong border and tight immigration controls as essential for the survival and prosperity of his culture and people; an Ethiopian might see an op…
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Should companies cater to racists?
The presumption that the world can be divided in to "progressive activists" and "racists" probably has a lot to do with the reason people don't want to express diverse political opinions at work.
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The presumption that the world can be divided in to "progressive activists" and "racists" probably has a lot to do with the reason people don't want to express diverse political opinions at work.
You can't be neutral on a moving train. If you're not fighting against it, you're for it.
I consider myself a very politically informed person. I'm not a politically active person however, largely for the reasons mentioned in the article. I considered myself a liberal by the standards of the time I grew up in. My views on some social issues, particularly 'free speech', are considered a conservative now. I am one of the people the article is concerning who will not publicly voice their political opinions i…
By who? Rosa Luxembourg, for example, was a free speech fundamentalist, and she is still far left of many left wingers today.
Free speech is a value that is often adopted, nuanced, and discarded by political projects from all over the spectrum - and it's naive to think that one side of the spectrum has a monopoly on its defense or denigration.
If you select for diversity in everything except viewpoint, which (in my experience) has increasingly been the case over the last ~20 years of my career, is it surprising that you end up with little diversity in (expressed) viewpoint?
I'm neither old nor experienced enough to back this with even anecdotal evidence, but I can't imagine this is a new development; surely most workplaces have always been hostile to viewpoints at odds with contemporary business norms. It's just the norms themselves that have changed during the shift to a globalized economy that favors knowledge work. Despite the "progressive activist" moniker applied in the article and…
Why then even bother to work at those places? there are many other places to work, many that share those views.
Sadly for some their only purpose at work is to cause division, they don’t want the work, they don’t want to be in a place were their ideas are dominant because what they really seek is change, by force. That number is growing and is causing all these problem and it will only get worse.