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Are you familiar with the concept of 'entryism'? It is where a political organization, among other things, puts headlines in the news to try and wrestle contro
by internaut 10y ago
Are you familiar with the concept of 'entryism'?
It is where a political organization, among other things, puts headlines in the news to try and wrestle control away from the owners of a company.
This is not imaginary, in China this is explicitly done with the Communist party and small companies when they reach a certain size or amount of influence.
The right believe the left is doing this with Silicon Valley. Here social justice warriors are something like shock troops indirectly manipulated by higher level political organizations like the Clinton foundation. We know for example that Salon and Gawker were put up to specific stories in pay for play and they received mysterious anonymous donations when they did so.
You don't have to believe that, but perhaps this will explain to you the hesitancy of the other side in taking your proposition seriously.
When a right wing tech employer hires a person (esp. a woman or minority) they sometimes wonder if they are part of a leftist ideological struggle which is orthogonal to the business's interests. An example is that we see the CEO of Yahoo, a woman, firing large numbers of men to replace them with women for no conceivable reason relating to merit.
This sort of thing appears to be uncontroversial in Silicon Valley but it is very not OK elsewhere. Mayer is being sued for sexism against men with a class action lawsuit I believe.
I predict Silicon Valley bifurcates along leftist and rightist lines but there is also a chance political chicanery tears the industry apart.
All of this is to explain to you that we are very aware of this:
> community has a tendency to ignore other "soft" problems (like gender equality or diversity in tech) that are very relevant and important.
It's that if I were to start a company tomorrow I would explicitly make it clear that SJWism was something that would get you immediately fired for the same reason having a 'StormFront' club in the company would be bad news for the manager.