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> I'm not sure we need more progressive activism in tech. After the way the James Damore thing was handled I'm starting to think maybe tech workers are safer ke
by eli_gottlieb 9y ago
> I'm not sure we need more progressive activism in tech. After the way the James Damore thing was handled I'm starting to think maybe tech workers are safer keeping their political beliefs between them and the ballot box.
The whole point of tech-worker organizing is to, for instance, obtain more secure employment than at-will law provides for, keeping companies from firing people who accidentally generate bad publicity by falling into an HR honeypot. Under a sensible system, whatever Damore's private opinions, I do believe it would have counted as Google basically entrapping him.
- quotemstr 9y agoI don't trust the people organizing tech worker "solidarity" to actually protect everyone's free expression. History suggests that the solidarity effort is instead about further enforcing ideological rigidity.
- chimeracoder 9y ago> I don't trust the people organizing tech worker "solidarity" to actually protect everyone's free expression. History suggests that the solidarity effort is instead about further enforcing ideological rigidity. It also doesn't particularly help when some of its prominent advocates are on the record stating that some intersections of gender and racial minorities are less important than others.
- fletom 9y agoCan you explain who and what you mean by this?
- mamoswined 9y agoHaving been a member of a union, I've seen unions protect unpopular people, including sexual harassers. I have mixed feelings about this. I do think the harassers deserve to go through a fair process ultimately though. Also see for example how "progressive" police unions are.