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I’m okay with employees engaging in peaceful protest, and even think they should be immune from workplace retaliation if they haven’t broken laws. But forcefull

I’m okay with employees engaging in peaceful protest, and even think they should be immune from workplace retaliation if they haven’t broken laws. But forcefully occupying buildings, or disrupting work with mass emails, etc are not acceptable forms of protest. You don’t get to break the law or abuse work resources for your personal political stances and you aren’t entitled to an audience for your unpopular views. Leaking sensitive information with national security implications, doing the dirty work of terrorist regimes (Iran), isn’t okay. > The ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza has brought the stakes of Silicon Valley’s military contracts into stark relief. This is a really biased description. It would be more accurate to call it a war of self defense than paint it this way, and it gives away the author’s biases. > As you read this, AI is helping Israel annihilate Palestinians This is similarly unhinged. Do words mean anything to these radicals? A conflict with relatively low civilian casualties isn’t annihilation. Gaza’s population has grown significantly over the years and obviously hasn’t been annihilated. The IDF also takes a lot of care to avoid civilian deaths, including announcing their targets and giving people time to leave. The number of deaths - even with Hamas’s propaganda numbers - is very low considering the enemy is purposely using human shields in a dense city (for example using hospitals).

janalsncm 3y ago
If the workers thought they could keep their jobs after their sit in, that’s delusional. That's just not how America works. On the other hand, it was a peaceful protest, and standing up to something which violated their conscience despite the consequences is very brave. I have a good amount of respect for it even without fully evaluating the politics of it. People made fun of Vietnam War protesters at the time. (Dirty hippy unpatriotic draft dodgers!) In fact the National Guard even killed someone. But time has shown them to be pretty brave. In any case they started a conversation.
- blackeyeblitzar 3y ago
  > On the other hand, it was a peaceful protest If you’re talking about people occupying the office of Google Cloud’s CEO, and refusing to leave, that is definitely not peaceful. That’s an act of force and it is illegal, and would be an illegal form of protest even if it were a publicly funded space like a government building. Like I said - your political views don’t entitle you to anything - including an audience. These people are free to act in a civil and legal way to argue for their political views, like the rest of us, since they have that option available. But they chose the path of breaking the law because most people don’t agree with their views, and the rioters can’t accept that. Being ignored doesn’t make it acceptable to escalate to illegal rioting.

janalsncm 3y ago

If the workers thought they could keep their jobs after their sit in, that’s delusional. That's just not how America works. On the other hand, it was a peaceful protest, and standing up to something which violated their conscience despite the consequences is very brave. I have a good amount of respect for it even without fully evaluating the politics of it. People made fun of Vietnam War protesters at the time. (Dirty hippy unpatriotic draft dodgers!) In fact the National Guard even killed someone. But time has shown them to be pretty brave. In any case they started a conversation.

blackeyeblitzar 3y ago
> On the other hand, it was a peaceful protest If you’re talking about people occupying the office of Google Cloud’s CEO, and refusing to leave, that is definitely not peaceful. That’s an act of force and it is illegal, and would be an illegal form of protest even if it were a publicly funded space like a government building. Like I said - your political views don’t entitle you to anything - including an audience. These people are free to act in a civil and legal way to argue for their political views, like the rest of us, since they have that option available. But they chose the path of breaking the law because most people don’t agree with their views, and the rioters can’t accept that. Being ignored doesn’t make it acceptable to escalate to illegal rioting.