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Re:After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand... by malandrew on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:12PM (#23529886)
> then people will use that as to push their own political agendas

It's always a very small number of very loud people too. Worse yet, these people have mastered the art of silencing dissent from their colleagues by using kafkatraps.

There are tons of republicans and libertarians in tech, but in the average office, you wouldn't know that given how effectively such people have been silenced for fear of being accused of thoughtcrime and heresy.

Re:After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand... by jasonmp85 on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:46PM (#23532763)
> There are tons of republicans and libertarians in tech, but in the average office, you wouldn't know that given how effectively such people have been silenced for fear of being accused of thoughtcrime and heresy

Have they tried growing as people to not be so horrid that people would recoil if they knew what was really inside their heads?

We have no obligation to tolerate the intolerant.

Re:After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand... by Izkata on Monday June 15, 2020 @05:55PM (#23533494)
Aaand that is exactly what GP is talking about: Massive assumptions about what people believe, without even an attempt to understand.