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"Some people" think all kinds of crazy shit, I'm not really seeing an argument here.

What's most interesting about this is that, as far as I can tell, no current "big tech" company violates this law.

> The actually-oppressed stay in hiding.

I hope you realize the comment you just wrote suggests that the oppressed should stay in hiding...

> Once you’ve established that someone supports authoritarian dictatorship, your engagement should be restricted to telling them such views are unacceptable in the space (if applicable) or correcting errors of fact for any onlookers.

Even as they metaphorically step on the throats of the people you care about?

And I'm talking about the fact that those are the very people with whom you should be discussing these things the most, no?

White men are now having to do what every other ethnic/gender group has had to do for hundreds of years; that's not cancel culture, that's growing equity. Thinking before you speak is a great idea, and a lot more people should do it.

And when it comes to technical conversations (the topic of this post), literally none of this is true at all. White men are absolutely and completely free to say literally any work-related thing they want, there is no chilling effect present there.

What, specifically would you like to have cited? White representation in tech? That's easily Googlable, and a number of citations emerge immediately[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10].

As for "cancellable" demographics, that makes a ton of sense; there's a lot of (societally encouraged) entitlement among white men that results in some pretty terrible behavior. Hopefully over time white men will start recognizing how when they act a certain way, it's not the same as when a non white male acts that same way.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-06-24...

[1] https://mashable.com/article/diversity-report-silicon-valley...

[2] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/5-eye-opening-statistic...

[3] https://www.umass.edu/employmentequity/sites/default/files/C...

[4] https://www.chill.us/entertainment/2018/10/15/tech-so-white

[5] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3574917/the-state-of-e...

[6] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/11/18/ra...

[7] https://www.eeoc.gov/special-report/diversity-high-tech

[8] https://www.business2community.com/workplace-culture/white-e...

[9] https://www.zippia.com/advice/diversity-in-high-tech-statist...

[10] https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/behavioral-...

Then is it really a "totally different aspect"? You can't know the motivations behind why politics comes up in a conversation, and it's perfectly reasonable for someone who isn't the target of oppression to feel empathy for and advocate on behalf of the oppressed.