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"I think it's fair to call women in tech initiatives nonpolitical" I don't actually know if this is true? James Damore has largely been considered a political
by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
"I think it's fair to call women in tech initiatives nonpolitical"
I don't actually know if this is true? James Damore has largely been considered a political act, and James Damore was stating being skeptical of the needs of women in tech initiatives. So, if being skeptical of the initiative is a political act, wouldn't going through with the initiative (being nonskeptical) also political?
(Personally I am for women in tech initiatives, FTR, I just don't know if they're not considered political.)
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoI see the symmetry you're referring to, but I don't think that's a useful way to think about what's a political act. In the 2008 election, there was a political controversy about whether it's snooty to eat fancy mustard; it wouldn't make sense to generalize from that and say condiment choices are always and forever political.
- SolaceQuantum 7y agoI see; does this also apply to the LGBTQ posts by GitLab blog?
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoNo. I'm not sure whether I think they ultimately are political (is it political for a company which employs lots of Christians to talk about Jesus?), but it's a harder case at the least.