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[–][deleted] 25 insightful - 2 fun25 insightful - 1 fun26 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Silicon Valley culture is unique, even in the US -- its values most closely align with the far-left academic elite (and now MSM). It's non-representative of most citizen's views and values here, definitely non-representative of POC (whom it claims to champion), the working class, political moderates, etc . . . There are "woke" geographical enclaves, especially on the west coast, but SV and Big Tech are very curated, artificial, and -- well, weird. They cast an outsized shadow. The danger is that they also have an outsized influence.

[–]kwallio 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Silicon valley is anything but "left". They are libertarians, but pay lip service to various things in order to not inflame their user base. I know quite a few poc and women who work or worked in various tech companies and the tech bro culture is pretty rife.

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That's really disturbing. So there's a three-way tangle of fictions going -- tech bros, academic progressives, capitalist behemoths.