Thinking politics can be removed from any company is wishful thinking.

The "best" they can do is mirror status quo and avoid confrontation.

This is sometimes wrongly referred to as "neutrality".

Folks saying politics should get removed are effectively saying they're fine with the status quo. Its intellectually dishonest for people to not recognize this in themselves with that opinion. Everything we do is inherently political as we are operating in this political landscape.

LGBTQ+ being welcomed in tech in the earlier days is partially what's responsible for the LGBTQ+ being somewhat welcomed in society in general today.

Status quo for companies back then would've been to never support anything LGBT related until 2015. That's something that a lot of people right now would say would be absurd.

IBM has been rightfully criticized in its role in the Genocide of Nazi Germany. "Never again" means understanding what circumstances in society led to the decisions being made back then. "Never again" can't be actuated if speaking against authority is discouraged.

> Its intellectually dishonest for people to not recognize this in themselves with that opinion. Everything we do is inherently political as we are operating in this political landscape.

This is how fundamentalists think, whether religious or political. Everything is somehow tied to their ideology and they want to push it everywhere.

I wonder if they know how insufferable they are.

> Everything is somehow tied to their ideology and they want to push it everywhere.

That's not what I said. I said everything we do is fundamentally political.

That is what makes you a fundamentalist. If everything was political then the word political had no meaning.

What does a fundamentalist even mean?

All of our actions are happening in the context of the politics we operate in. Do you have an example where this isn’t the case?