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Dubious to say the least. If anything, silicon valley culture is legendary for being unapologetically left leaning, and has been harder on right leaning content
by writepub 8y ago
Dubious to say the least. If anything, silicon valley culture is legendary for being unapologetically left leaning, and has been harder on right leaning content, let alone toleraing far right propaganda. This is a "sting" operation that's looking to "prove" a narrative someone's pushing - cherry picking evidence that suits their agenda.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> legendary Legend ≠ fact
- writepub 8y agoTrue. But silicon valley's left lean is a fact
- dragonwriter 8y agoSilicon Valley in either the narrow geographic sense or the sense of the SF Bay Area tech industry has strong faction in the center-right “identity politics plus neoliberal economics” camp that anchors the right wing of the Democratic Party, as well as the right-libertarian, and technocratic right-authoritarian factions. The broader SF Bay Area has a strong (for the US, at least) faction on the center-left (democratic socialists, in the DSA sense if not anything you'd recognize as such eslewhere) and a few visible, though insignificant, groups on the actual left, as well as enormous or in the previously mentioned center-right group. In Silicon Valley (in either sense), the two right-wing factions tend to point to examples of the powerful center-right group in Silicon Valley as evidence that Silicon Valley is a hard-left monoculture, ignoring both their own prominence and that the faction they are pointing to isn't even a left-wing faction.