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Nearly all my colleagues and friends here in the Bay Area are from somewhere else. So this idea of a totally isolated bubble is a fiction made up on few facts

Nearly all my colleagues and friends here in the Bay Area are from somewhere else. So this idea of a totally isolated bubble is a fiction made up on few facts to sell a story. And most people are fairly tolerant - except of the intolerable few who wish to destroy tolerance. Again more made up stories.

refurb 6y ago
It's a pretty massive thought bubble, at least for the professional class. It has a massive number of highly paid, white, left-leaning people. Opinions outside of that bubble are met with "I didn't know people like you existed!". If that's not a bubble, I don't know what is.
- sagarm 6y ago
  The Bay area and tech is not predominantly white. While hispanics and black people are underrepresented, Asians (both south and east) are dramatically overrepresented. In addition, Bay area people are from all over the country and from diverse backgrounds. In contrast, rural communities tend to be highly homogeneous both in terms of race and life experience.
  - refurb 6y ago
    An exception doesn't disprove the rule. Go walk around any upper income neighborhood in SF. It's mostly white. Sure, Asian make up a good percentage, but it's mostly white at the upper echelon. And sure, people come from all over the country, but they gravitate here because the SF bubble aligns with their own views. And if your views don't align, you learn pretty quickly to keep your mouth shut. And sure, rural communities have their own issues, but you can have a much more diverse perspective going to any number of "fly over country" cities in the US.
    - sagarm 6y ago
      According to Wikipedia, the 2018 ACS estimated SF is 40% White, 5% Black, 34% Asian, 15% Hispanic, and 5% mixed race.[1] Are you really surprised that sharing a party with white nationalists makes you an outcast in a city as diverse as San Francisco? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco#:~:text=According%20to%202018%20US%20Census,from%20two%20or%20more%20races https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco#....

refurb 6y ago

It's a pretty massive thought bubble, at least for the professional class. It has a massive number of highly paid, white, left-leaning people. Opinions outside of that bubble are met with "I didn't know people like you existed!". If that's not a bubble, I don't know what is.

sagarm 6y ago
The Bay area and tech is not predominantly white. While hispanics and black people are underrepresented, Asians (both south and east) are dramatically overrepresented. In addition, Bay area people are from all over the country and from diverse backgrounds. In contrast, rural communities tend to be highly homogeneous both in terms of race and life experience.
- refurb 6y ago
  An exception doesn't disprove the rule. Go walk around any upper income neighborhood in SF. It's mostly white. Sure, Asian make up a good percentage, but it's mostly white at the upper echelon. And sure, people come from all over the country, but they gravitate here because the SF bubble aligns with their own views. And if your views don't align, you learn pretty quickly to keep your mouth shut. And sure, rural communities have their own issues, but you can have a much more diverse perspective going to any number of "fly over country" cities in the US.
  - sagarm 6y ago
    According to Wikipedia, the 2018 ACS estimated SF is 40% White, 5% Black, 34% Asian, 15% Hispanic, and 5% mixed race.[1] Are you really surprised that sharing a party with white nationalists makes you an outcast in a city as diverse as San Francisco? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco#:~:text=According%20to%202018%20US%20Census,from%20two%20or%20more%20races https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco#....