> Corporations have created new positions and new departments to seem like they're part of this movement. That trend seems to be shifting. Google was one of th

> Corporations have created new positions and new departments to seem like they're part of this movement. That trend seems to be shifting. Google was one of the first to accept the movement, and yet they very publicly stood up to it when they accepted Timnit Gebru's threat to resign. > If we suppose that outside opposition will harden the movement Hardening isn't the same as strengthening. The "harder", more extreme, more authoritarian the movement becomes, the more it will drive people away, and opportunists who only joined out of expediency or fear won't defend it when it's seriously challenged. I don't think we'll have to wait a generation for this movement to end, just as it didn't take a generation for its closest recent analogue, McCarthyism, to end.