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Re:Google Walkout Organizer Claire Stapleton Resigns by jdm2212 on Friday June 07, 2019 @05:20PM (#20128716)
It wasn't totally random. They were mostly ok with assholes as long as they were good engineers -- my manager and skip-level manager were two of the ten or so loudest far-left types at the company. But both were very good engineers, and my manager actually got promoted even while devoting a substantial amount of time to antagonizing random people on mailing lists and G+.

I remember one guy though who was far-left, very obnoxious, and useless. And he got fired/pushed out a little while after I left.

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Re:Google Walkout Organizer Claire Stapleton Resigns by DuskStar on Friday June 07, 2019 @08:05PM (#20129680)
Can you think of any obnoxious right wing people who survived any length of time? Not even far-right, just further right than the nationwide center.

Without that, it sounds like either left-wing activists are far more common at Google, that right-wing activists are afraid to act in similar ways, or that Google enforces such policies in an ideologically slanted manner. (My bet would be on all three)

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Re:Google Walkout Organizer Claire Stapleton Resigns by geodel on Friday June 07, 2019 @08:59PM (#20129910)
> left-wing activists are far more common at Google,

Yes, and I think this is common knowledge. Good place to look is Code of Conducts for all kind of technical groups. Their language is pulled straight from identity politics of left.

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Re:Google Walkout Organizer Claire Stapleton Resigns by 0815test on Saturday June 08, 2019 @03:18AM (#20131093)
Not sure why this comment is controversial? Let's be clear here, you can agree with the broader goals of a CoC while still thinking that the language being used in many such "codes" is highly problematic, unprofessional and prone to equivocation and abuse.
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