They drew attention to their cause, you're talking about them. You're talking about their cause.

>> even from the point of view of someone that supports their views

What views of theirs do you support, exactly?

They may find sympathy at some businesses, but the larger the company, likely the less of that.

Got a chuckle out of me.

Look, if you are in the most elite institutions, then you should stand up for something. If they can’t fucking do it, what hope do other people have? So the starving Gaza kid can’t do shit, the Columbia student can’t, and the Google engineer can’t.

And this goes for people on both sides of the issue.

Tricky business.

You almost got it. We are talking about them… but not about their cause.

And therein lies the gold: they found a cause that they can use to scream look at me me me.

I suspect this is the same for everyone, even those who may be discussing Google's response.

So they may have wanted a "me me me" response, or they may have legitimately wanted to raise awareness, but it's a pretty large fail for a now strongly narrowed career path.

Unless the definition of virtue signalling is so expansive as to be meaningless, where every act of protest which is not anonymous is virtue signalling.

If you want to attribute their actions to a genuine desire to help the Palestinians, that is fine.

Are you just changing the subject?

They accomplished me never responding to Google recruiter emails and informing others in my network to avoid Google where they can be fired for happening upon a protest at work.