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> One person in Silicon Valley even asked me to sign a confidentiality agreement before she would talk to me, as she worried she’d lose her job if people at her
by tn13 10y ago
> One person in Silicon Valley even asked me to sign a confidentiality agreement before she would talk to me, as she worried she’d lose her job if people at her company knew she was a strong Trump supporter.
It is safe to say democracy has won here. A suppressed majority silently voting for their candidate despite and over pressure on them to not exercise their choice.
Only if people in silicon valley had done this before the election and not after.
- nsxwolf 10y agoOh that's nice. Maybe our side has the wrong goal. Maybe we should be working for a world where the tables are turned and you fear for your livelihood instead.
- bediger4000 10y agoWait, I thought Silicon Valley was in California. California voted for Hillary 62%, Trump 32%, and that Hillary's popular vote win was basically all from California (http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/its-official-clintons-popular-vote-win-came-entirely-from-california/ http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/its-official-cl...) That's hardly a suppressed majority silently voting for Trump. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, here?
- davexunit 10y agoSupporters of racism, sexism, etc. ought to be marginalized. And this was not a "majority", btw.
- thraway2016 10y agoWhy should people be marginalized for their political opinions?
- wolfram74 10y agoReductio ad Absurdum, is it possible to have and advocate for an opinion detrimental enough that you should be marginalized for?
- thraway2016 10y agoNo, because "detrimental" is also a subjective judgement depending on whether one is a utilitarian, consequentialist, etc. One man's heaven is another man's hell. There is no objectively correct political position, so establishing parameters on which specific opinions are to be found acceptable of marginalization is impossible.
- rpearl 10y agoI think you mean: A very vocal minority used their geographic advantage (which exists because it perpetuates power for the people who got it through that advantage) and related bugs in the voting system to force a highly problematic and incompetent government into power despite the will of the majority.