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[–][deleted] 25 insightful - 2 fun25 insightful - 1 fun26 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 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.

[–]endthewoo 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

They cast an outsized shadow. The danger is that they also have an outsized influence.

This for sure, but why would you describe them as "far-left" ? They are obviously power-hungry authoritarians, sociopathic, narcissitic, but whether they profess to be republican or democrat, they are capitalists (ie nowhere near the left) and many would be closer to right-wing libertarian anyway.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

"Far left" as in the ultra-progressive academic/social sciences zeitgeist, and what some are calling identitarianism -- the culture of "true believers" in Silicon Valley. The capitalist corporate tech behemoths hosting (employing) the true believers are another story, in it for their own purposes. For the moment, though, they're fronting the progressive narrative.

[–]endthewoo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Then you're into "everyone I don't like is a leftist" territory. It doesn't make sense. Words need to have meaning - a resonable and consistent definition, and the likes of Peter Theil, Musk, Zuckerberg and the rest are no way "far-left"

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Not me -- the academic and journalistic climate providing the mental-emotional juice for all of this. "The Evergreening" doesn't make sense. It's not internally or externally consistent. That's the point.