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Can someone explain why SV tech workers are more left-wing to me as an outsider? I always thought these tech workers were more libertarian.
Can someone explain why SV tech workers are more left-wing to me as an outsider? I always thought these tech workers were more libertarian.
1. Being in extremely left-wing Bay area with historic ties to the free speech movement. 2. They're not, it just benefits both the tech companies and the media to portray them that way. Based on personal observations.
Can someone explain why SV tech workers are more left-wing to me as an outsider? I always thought these tech workers were more libertarian.
1. Being in extremely left-wing Bay area with historic ties to the free speech movement. 2. They're not, it just benefits both the tech companies and the media to portray them that way. Based on personal observations.
Can someone explain why SV tech workers are more left-wing to me as an outsider? I always thought these tech workers were more libertarian.
1. Being in extremely left-wing Bay area with historic ties to the free speech movement. 2. They're not, it just benefits both the tech companies and the media to portray them that way. Based on personal observations.
Why the activism against hate speech then?
Can someone explain why SV tech workers are more left-wing to me as an outsider? I always thought these tech workers were more libertarian.
It's more a case of counter-culture vs. mainstream; with the tech scene appearing Left-leaning only to the extent that the Right tries to portray their agenda as the mainstream in the media. (The Left does that too, it's just that the Right has been more successful since about the 80's when the pols roped in the Christians. Before then, Christians mostly stayed out of politics. Mostly. E.g. "liberal" becoming a "dirty word", etc.)
That's why you see e.g. Left-wing sentiment and Libertarian sentiment (as well as Furry sentiment; pro-gun sentiment; anti-gun sentiment; weird-sex sentiment; non-binary-gender sentiment; ... I could go on at length. CA is a weird place, and SF is the weirdest place in CA (except for Berkeley)) in SV. Really, it's a political and social kaleidoscope out here. If it looks Blue or Red it's the tinted filter.
Can someone explain why SV tech workers are more left-wing to me as an outsider? I always thought these tech workers were more libertarian.
Oh and if multiple execs call a meeting and were almost tearing up over an election loss (Google), I highly doubt i'd be comfortable even mentioning my political views, so the stats probably fail to mention people lying about their political views to avoid trouble.
Can someone explain why SV tech workers are more left-wing to me as an outsider? I always thought these tech workers were more libertarian.
I know plenty of SV tech workers I'd call Libertarian, and even a few Trumpists, though the latter tend not to make a big show of it.
Maybe that's because of my age. But I think among the younger workers there's a much higher percentage of immigrants and I really doubt the "SV lefties" narrative holds for a majority of them (because they tend to come from pretty conservative societies and sought out the US for economic benefit).
I could, of course, be wrong in my hunches. In which case I'd love to see some sources.