It's a bold stance. It says that because "Team Red," as the tweet puts it, is attacking the foundations of democracy (the OS, if you will), this justifies extreme responses, including the breach of norms, trust, or perhaps even laws that this email represents. This person/company has decided to fight fire (breaking of norms) with fire. Sometimes that works, sometimes you burn the whole forest down faster.
I’ve sent an email to the CEO of Expensify [Twitter]
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#12>Before sending it we had a long discussion, designed to be as inclusive and respectful as possible. In particular, we made a fact check Slack room where anyone can contest a factual claim and argue for/against it, then a group of top employees votes on our official opinion.
Oof imagine working there and speaking up from the "other side". I'd just leave tbh. Or just stay silent. There is a reason a lot of people don't want to talk about things like that in a workplace.
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#13Millions of customers - including many not in the US. He couldn’t even be assed enough to at least segment his client list before spamming them...(said as an Aussie who received his email)
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#14>Before sending it we had a long discussion, designed to be as inclusive and respectful as possible. In particular, we made a fact check Slack room where anyone can contest a factual claim and argue for/against it, then a group of top employees votes on our official opinion. Oof imagine working there and speaking up from the "other side". I'd just leave tbh. Or just stay silent. There is a reason a lot of people don'…
Yes, there are a million ways that a person can be targeted for a removal (marginalised, sidelined, or set up for total career destruction) in an environment that's enforcing a narrow, shifting ideological orthodoxy. Any attempt to solicit a countervailing opinion on political matters in high-profile tech companies should of course be met with extreme suspicion, but unfortunately that's likely to lead to the problem getting worse.
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#15https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charts-americas-political-d...
The graph is quite explanatory of Team Blue and Team Red. In 2004 the median democrat and median republican were close together as it had been since the beginning 1994. Why did the divide increase so much in 2011?
In fact if you place your finger on the 1994 median republican line. Republicans went slightly to the left and then more or less havent changed since 1994. Now do the same for the median democrat. The democrat party has been the one which changed just before 2011
Identity politics as part of Obama to become 'the first black president' has created a schism. The identity politics has continued into Trump hence why 'he's the best since Lincoln' but also called a huge racist. Huffpost article from before Obama got the nomination and it was still up to Obama vs Clinton.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-crisis-of-identity-po_b_8...
There hasn't been are significant identity politics in the USA until around 2008. At least there hasnt been for a long time.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/america-is-suffering-an-i_b_1...
An identity crisis is just the tip of the iceberg. The political divide is coming from the democrats. Hence why you have Democrats like the CEO of expensify threatening civil war.