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You are correct. It is very hard to be different in the wrong ways in the Bay Area, and the social sanctions against being different affect all aspects of your
by asabjorn 8y ago
You are correct. It is very hard to be different in the wrong ways in the Bay Area, and the social sanctions against being different affect all aspects of your life including loosing friends and jobs.
What is the wrong way of thinking is largely defined by people that seem to believe they know the truth and will do anything including lying about how you are different to further their agenda.
- adgasf 8y agoExamples?
- will_brown 8y agoSorry, you’re just not a good fit for the company culture.
- throwaway5250 8y agoRead Exhibit B of the Damore lawsuit. It's a virtual catalog of this sort of thing.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoNo, it's not. The Damore case is a textbook example of someone who thinks they're the smartest person in the room, and how "I can't be bigoted/misogynistic, cause science!" despite the fact that much of the quoted science was debunked, or his use of it was wildly out of what those that actually wrote the papers he quoted meant.
- dx87 8y agoLook at the lawsuit, not just the paper he wrote. He provides evidence of managers colluding to prevent conservative employees from getting promoted, examples of employees booing when the number of white male managers is listed, etc.
- throwaway5250 8y agoI'm not discussing what Damore wrote here. Everything in Exhibit B was written by Google employees. Everyone should read it.
- mcguire 8y agohttps://www.scribd.com/document/368688363/James-Damore-vs-Google-Class-Action-Lawsuit https://www.scribd.com/document/368688363/James-Damore-vs-Go... Search for "Exhibit B". P.S. From which I learn that many Googlers have far too much time on their hands. Or need to go for a walk or something.
- dx87 8y agoYou can look at the lawsuits filed by James Damore and others that provides evidence of managers at Google sharing an internal blacklist of politically conservative employees so they can collude to keep them from advancing in the company.
- mrfredward 8y agoI searched "Exhibit B Damore lawsuit," and the first link is dead because it belonged to a subreddit that got banned. Of course, I can guess by the subreddit title alone, "sjwhate", that reddit had sound reasons for the ban. Nevertheless, I'm ticked to see the thing I'm looking for get censored by the monoculture.
- cwzwarich 8y ago> It is very hard to be different in the wrong ways in the Bay Area, and the social sanctions against being different affect all aspects of your life including loosing friends and jobs. Is there actually a uniform definition of the "wrong way"? I doubt circumstances are the same for someone in SV who is originally from the Midwest and someone who is from Andhra Pradesh.
- asabjorn 8y agoThere have for a few decades been a progressive activist sub-culture in the bay area, mostly springing out of berkeley social science departments, and they seem through brute force and bullying tactics to define what is "rightspeak" as what furthers their activist agenda. Their agenda is to fight for their in-group. If you look you'll notice what is defined as the in-group not changing much, while what is defined as the target for change does change and expand over time. The goal seems to be to have their in-group win at whatever cost necessary. https://quillette.com/2018/10/11/do-advocacy-groups-belong-in-academia/ https://quillette.com/2018/10/11/do-advocacy-groups-belong-i...
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago>It is very hard to be different in the wrong ways in the Bay Area Nobody blinks twice if you dye your hair blue, wear flip flops to the office, commute on a unicycle and microdose LSD. God help you if you put a mossy oak patterned lunch box in the break room fridge because from then on you're redneck white trash.