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> an employee who describes himself as libertarian [...] believes the now infamous memo was relatively well-reasoned and that Silicon Valley's diversity initiat
by jzymbaluk 9y ago
> an employee who describes himself as libertarian [...] believes the now infamous memo was relatively well-reasoned and that Silicon Valley's diversity initiatives ignore data that conflict with their ideology. He’s regularly reminded of what he refers to as the company’s “social justice agenda,” like when he gets corporate email touting a donation to a non-profit that supports minorities, or hears an executive talk about hoping to have half of his leadership team be female,which he believes shows the company prioritizes some groups over others.
This makes zero sense to me. A private company having a corporate agenda and goals and using its power in the industry to enact social change sounds like something even Ayn Rand would be okay with. Libertarianism is supposed to champion the values of private property, political liberty and free association. This guy should realize he's working for a company with owners, and that under his own ideology, owners have every right to push whatever political agenda they want, and that if he has a problem with his company taking a stand on social justice, then that's fine, he should work somewhere else.