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It's not just about caring how I am viewed for no reason, it's that I have to deal with the culutural differences daily both professionally and personally, but

It's not just about caring how I am viewed for no reason, it's that I have to deal with the culutural differences daily both professionally and personally, but mostly professionally. I keep my politics etc to myself in the workplace, but the coastal elites seem to want to shove theirs down everyones throats, even in the workplace, which is very jarring. It's one of the same reasons I fled the bible belt and went to DC for a while (only to find I disliked the east coast), but to see the similarities in dogmatism and tribalism between the bible belt and the coastal elites is... informative. I keep having this semi-irrational fear that the SV startup I work for will found out I'm not "one of them" and fire me for cultural differences.

vb6sp6 6y ago
Ok, but you aren't special in this regard. I work in a red state, in a red county. My boss regularly praises Trump at work. Another claimed that his personal hero is George W Bush and said so in published interview in the biggest trade mag for our industry a few years ago. There are still office debates about the existence of WMDs in Iraq. Most try to shovel their conservative bullshit down my throat. And we haven't even touched on the religious bullshit that gets thrown around. But I don't give a fuck what these people think and i don't "allow" them to exert that type of influence over me. And if they fire me, I'll just go be a liberal atheist somewhere else (where I will also not give a fuck)
- refurb 6y ago
  Based on your tone, it sure sounds like you care what they think.
  - vb6sp6 6y ago
    I really don't but whatever
ed25519FUUU 6y ago
And these fears are not unfounded. For example, the 12 year old Colorado student suspended from school because of a toy gun being seen on Zoom. And that was just a toy... Firearms are just one such cultural flashpoint, where "don't ask don't tell" is really the only modus operandi for those surviving inside the SV monoculture.

vb6sp6 6y ago

Ok, but you aren't special in this regard. I work in a red state, in a red county. My boss regularly praises Trump at work. Another claimed that his personal hero is George W Bush and said so in published interview in the biggest trade mag for our industry a few years ago. There are still office debates about the existence of WMDs in Iraq. Most try to shovel their conservative bullshit down my throat. And we haven't even touched on the religious bullshit that gets thrown around. But I don't give a fuck what these people think and i don't "allow" them to exert that type of influence over me. And if they fire me, I'll just go be a liberal atheist somewhere else (where I will also not give a fuck)

refurb 6y ago
Based on your tone, it sure sounds like you care what they think.
- vb6sp6 6y ago
  I really don't but whatever

ed25519FUUU 6y ago

And these fears are not unfounded. For example, the 12 year old Colorado student suspended from school because of a toy gun being seen on Zoom. And that was just a toy... Firearms are just one such cultural flashpoint, where "don't ask don't tell" is really the only modus operandi for those surviving inside the SV monoculture.